TI’s M-Shield™ mobile security technology enables robust protection of enterprise data and premium copyrighted digital media content,secure protocol applications and e-commerce applications such as ticketing, banking,brokering and shopping. The OMAP 5 platform security offering is based on open APIs and provides an environment for secure applications that deliver robust performance, interoperability,greater development speed and large economies of scale. As the advanced hardware and software security framework for the OMAP 5 platform,M-Shield technology enables value-added services and increased terminal security,allowing operators, content providers and manufacturers to secure sensitive assets and usage rights for protection against revenue loss. Features include secure flashing and booting,so that only authorized software can be loaded on the handset, terminal identity protection that makes stolen phones useless, and network lock protection that prevents users from arbitrarily switching networks on the Web.