Inside Secure, which provides embedded security products for mobile and connected devices, announced it will provide the mobile security features for Yulong Coolpad, a smartphone manufacturer, to handle sensitive data in the phone, according to a press release.

"Coolpad has become one of the top cellular device manufacturers in the world and was recently ranked the seventh largest smartphone vendor by IDC, a popular U.S. analyst firm," said Cao Jing-Sheng, vice president of brand management for Yulong. "We are excited to be working with Inside Secure to add the highest levels of security to our phones to insure all of our customers can be confident that no matter what they choose to do on their phones, they will be protected and safe."

Yulong's Coolpad adopted Inside's product, which comes with EAL 5+ and FIPS 140-2 certification, which are well known security certifications issued by common criteria and the National Institution of Standard and Technology, according to the announcement. These features supposedly grant privacy and data confidentiality to the user by leveraging encryption and strong authentication as needed.