If you look at the sales of Android phones, there’s two companies that are firmly at the top of the food chain. That’s Samsung and LG. That also means that when security issues happen on the Android platform, they take a significant hit. They’re now going to address that for their customers. Samsung for starters has announced that security updates will take roll out over-the-air about once per month:
Samsung Electronics will implement a new Android security update process that fast tracks the security patches over the air when security vulnerabilities are uncovered. These security updates will take place regularly about once per month.
Samsung has recently fast tracked security updates to its Galaxy devices with the recent Android Stagefright issues working with the carriers and partners. Acknowledging the importance of time sensitivity in addressing major vulnerabilities, the company plans to further develop this process and implement it as a timely security update practice.
If you are not familiar with Stagefright, I covered that in this article. LG is going to join that party as well and they announced that via Wired:
“LG will be providing security updates on a monthly basis which carriers will then be able to make available to customers immediately. We believe these important steps will demonstrate to LG customers that security is our highest priority,” an LG representative told WIRED today in an email.
It’s a safe bet that others on the Android platform will likely be moving to a similar scheme. I applaud them for this because:
- Security has to be your top focus at all times.
- Android is a very fragmented platform and the only way that they’re going to be more secure is if there’s a lot more cohesion and faster responses to security threats.
Let’s see how many other Android OEMs jump onto this platform and how fast they do it.
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Samsung & LG To Implement New Monthly Update Process For Their Android Phones
If you look at the sales of Android phones, there’s two companies that are firmly at the top of the food chain. That’s Samsung and LG. That also means that when security issues happen on the Android platform, they take a significant hit. They’re now going to address that for their customers. Samsung for starters has announced that security updates will take roll out over-the-air about once per month:
Samsung Electronics will implement a new Android security update process that fast tracks the security patches over the air when security vulnerabilities are uncovered. These security updates will take place regularly about once per month.
Samsung has recently fast tracked security updates to its Galaxy devices with the recent Android Stagefright issues working with the carriers and partners. Acknowledging the importance of time sensitivity in addressing major vulnerabilities, the company plans to further develop this process and implement it as a timely security update practice.
If you are not familiar with Stagefright, I covered that in this article. LG is going to join that party as well and they announced that via Wired:
“LG will be providing security updates on a monthly basis which carriers will then be able to make available to customers immediately. We believe these important steps will demonstrate to LG customers that security is our highest priority,” an LG representative told WIRED today in an email.
It’s a safe bet that others on the Android platform will likely be moving to a similar scheme. I applaud them for this because:
Let’s see how many other Android OEMs jump onto this platform and how fast they do it.
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