Remote permissions monitoring and control

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• determine a flag has been set on an application permission based on an application security profile, wherein the application permission is requested from a computing device in association with an application access operation;
• temporarily block the application from being able to access the flagged application permission on the computing device;
• identify, by a security module installed on the computing device, a phone number of a remote user device stored within the application security profile of the computing device;
• and
• a network interface configured to transmit, via a network, a request from the security module to the remote user device based on the identified phone number, the request comprising an identification of the temporarily blocked application permission that has been flagged and a request for a user input via the remote user device to resume the temporarily blocked application permission.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that when executed causes a processor to perform:

• determining a flag has been set on an application permission based on an application security profile, wherein the application permission is requested from a computing device in association with an application access operation;
• temporarily blocking the application from accessing the flagged application permission on the computing device;
• identifying, by a security module installed on the computing device, a phone number of a remote user device stored within the application security profile of the computing device;
• transmitting, via a network, a request from the security module to the remote user device based on the identified phone number, the request comprising an identification of the temporarily, blocked application permission that has been flagged and a request for a user input via the remote user device to resume the temporarily blocked application permission;
• and
• receiving, by the security module, a response from the remote user device indicating whether or not to allow the application access to the flagged application permission.