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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

Mobile Device Management


Bringing your own device to work is not totally new. Many employees have been using their own devices, which they themselves purchased, for years. Many companies run software to check a user's computer before the user is permitted to connect to a corporate network. The growth of the home office changed the rules of corporate computing. IBM's policies provide a good example of how home offices can be integrated into the modern workplace; many of the authors of this book have not had a dedicated office space for years. Some companies will allow users to connect with an employee-owned computer from their home, while others will allow only a corporate computer to connect to a corporate network.

One very important point to understand is that the use of BYOD can be different from company to company and also can be impacted via various government rules.

Does your company trust your device?

There is an initial issue with bringing your own device to work (in this case, the corporate...