Secure Data Protection App, ContactShield, Now Available In The iOS App Store

March 25, 2015 - WinSoft Inc. is proud to present its first data protection product – ContactShield, a utility app now available in the iOS App Store. ContactShield protects the user's address book from applications that have access to that information and from attempts to hack into it, even on a cloud server.

With a single tap, users can encrypt their contacts and select which specific fields to protect (e.g., phone numbers, addresses, e-mails, notes). After verifying the user's password/fingerprint, standard address book operations-such as making phone calls and sending SMS messages-become available on ContactShield, even if the address book data is encrypted. Synchronization with the user's cloud encrypts the data on the cloud server. Now the user's cloud and iOS data will both be protected.

"Now I can use applications such as WhatsApp, Waze, and LinkedIn, knowing that they can access my iOS contacts but cannot use the data that I choose to encrypt," says Ehud Shany, the CEO of WinSoft. "My default address book is ContactShield with Touch ID, in which the data is protected but not encrypted."

Because ContactShield makes the data available for use in a non-encrypted format, access to ContactShield itself is protected by a Touch ID or password. Even if the user's address book (mobile device or cloud server) is compromised, the user is safe. The data that the user selected to encrypt is secured with an AES 256-bit encryption algorithm.

ContactShield is currently available in the iOS App Store for $0.99. For more information, visit the WinSoft website at http://www.infoshields.com/.

About WinSoft:
WinSoft Inc. is located in Southern California and has been serving military/aerospace and electronics manufacturers since 1994. In 2015, the company started a data security division. ContactShield is the first in a series of security products.