Secured compartment for transactions

摘要: Systems and methods that establish a secured compartment that manages sensitive user transactions/information on a user's machine. The secured compartment qualifies user interaction with the machine, and separates such qualified interaction from other user activity on the machine. A user is Switched to Such secured compartment upon occurrence of a predetermined event, such as in form of an explicit request (eg, a secure attention sequence); an implicit request (eg, inference of user activities); and presence of a peripheral device that is bound to the secured compartment (eg, a USB)—wherein Such actions typically cannot be generated by an application running outside the secured compartment.