Spb Wallet makes security fun. Maybe not as much fun as watching a child open that perfect gift this holiday season, but secure enough to let Dad sleep well knowing the family’s critical data is protected during this time of intense online shopping. The entire experience is more colorful than you can imagine for a security app: bult-in templates mean the credit cards you see in Spb Wallet look just like the plastic cards in your physical wallet. I tested Spb Wallet on my Nokia N97.

Spb Wallet lets you create several wallets to store your sensitive information.

Spb Wallet helps you create strong passwords that are difficult to crack.

When you first launch the app, it prompts you to create a new wallet. You can create several. Each wallet is protected by a password you set, and Spb Wallet helps you select passwords that are hard to crack.

Choose from thousands of templates that look just like the cards in your physical wallet.

Data records are organized in Spb Wallet as cards built on templates. The templates gallery is amazing. There are almost 3300 different templates for credit cards alone, all browsable and downloadable over the air. Here’s one for the Bank of Bermuda.

Toolbars for Internet Explorer and Firefox keep you safe online.

Spb Wallet can synch between your Nokia device and your Windows PC, allowing you to automatically insert web site usernames and passwords as well as your credit card information when shopping online. Browser toolbars are available for Internet Explorer and Firefox.

This is not only convenient, for most of us this means we can be more secure. When we rely on our memory for usernames and passwords, we often compromise security to make it easier for our overstuffed brains. Simple passwords are easy to remember and easy to crack. There is no such trade-off when you use Spb Wallet. Make the password to that new web site you just shopped at as obscure as you want – let Spb Wallet remember it for you. Or go completely secure and let Spb Wallet generate secure passwords for you.

Of course easy to use and fun to look at is not good enough when deciding on an app to protect your most sensitive information. Here are some of the security specs from the developer’s documentation:

• All of the data is stored in an encrypted, password-protected file. A strong AES 256bit algorithm is used for encryption.
• A special login panel eliminates key logger threat.
• Automatic wallet locking: If you forget to close your wallet OR if you leave your wallet open, Automatic Wallet Locking will automatically lock your wallet after the specified period of time of inactivity.
• Automatic clipboard cleanup allows you to clean up the clipboard automatically when you end using wallet. This feature will remove only the data which was copied from the Spb Wallet to your clipboard.
• Special engine  protects the wallet data from ‘Phishing’ scams on your desktop.

A written blog like this does not do the slick design and great experience of Spb Wallet justice. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this video of Spb Wallet on a Nokia 5800 Express is, as the credit card adverts say, priceless.