METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURE TRANSACTIONS BASED ON A PORTABLE TRANSACTION-ENABLING PLATFORM

摘要

A portable transaction-enablement platform (200, 600) carries out certain actions to improve the protection of sensitive information. This can comprise detecting when a user of the portable transaction-enablement platform (200, 600) prepares to use (101) the portable transaction-enablement platform (200, 600) to facilitate a sensitive transaction and then responding in a corresponding manner. This can comprise, for example, automatically pre-enabling (105) transaction-enablement platform functionality as pertains to the sensitive transaction while also limiting (106) transaction-enablement platform functionality that does not support the sensitive transaction and that poses a risk to the sensitive transaction.