Electronic device and security control method

Abstract

Setting of security for communication is automatically changed for each application that is started up. An electronic device includes a communication unit which communicates with another electronic device, a storage unit which stores setting information of security for communication corresponding to each application, an execution control unit which starts up and executes one application among a plurality of applications used to communicate with the other electronic device and recruit a participant of a community, and a security control unit which reads the setting information corresponding to the application which has been started up from the storage unit and controls security for communication using the communication unit based on the read setting information when the execution control unit starts up the application.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.