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Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices

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Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices

Overview of this book

The threat of hacking may be the most damaging on the internet. Mobile technology is changing the way we live, work, and play, but it can leave your personal information dangerously exposed. Your online safety is at risk and the threat of information being stolen from your device is at an all- time high. Your identity is yours, yet it can be compromised if you don't manage your phone or mobile device correctly. Gain the power to manage all your mobile devices safely. With the help of this guide you can ensure that your data and that of your family is safe. The threat to your mobile security is growing on a daily basis and this guide may just be the help you need. Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices will teach you how to recognize, protect against, and recover from hacking attempts and outline the clear and present threats to your online identity posed by the use of a mobile device. In this guide you will discover just how vulnerable unsecured devices can be, and explore effective methods of mobile device management and identity protection to ensure your data's security. There will be special sections detailing extra precautions to ensure the safety of family members and how to secure your device for use at work.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize, and Recover Your Devices
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Tips to Help You Protect Your Mobile Device
The History of Social Networking, the Internet, and Smartphones
Index

Chapter 2. Users and Mobile Device Management

The world of computing is changing, again. This history of computing is more than just personal computers. It was not too many years ago that punch cards were being used and there were jobs just for people to enter data. Today, we are living in a truly mobile world, complete with a variety of devices that we use for talking, playing games, sending messages, and even work. The important term for this chapter is Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to work. This chapter will focus on the impact of BYOD on the workplace. BYOD brings several impacts to you, as follows:

  • Many companies are installing what is known as Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions. This solution is a part of a holistic corporate security policy.

  • MDM solutions provide two basic types of corporate security policy management for mobile devices:

    • How to securely access your corporate e-mail: This normally includes specialized network devices and a controlled corporate network

    • A description...