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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

Bring your mobile device to work day


A recent poll by an access-management company Courion found that 69 percent of the corporations contacted said their employees use personally-owned mobile devices to connect to the corporate network (http://www.informationweek.com/mobility/security/personal-mobile-devices-still-vex-it/231002676). This practice introduced a whole new security risk to companies through devices over which they have little control. Initially, companies fought the practice but eventually chose to accept the inevitable. Employees won the battle by sheer numbers. "Mobile devices are now accepted as necessary tools for productivity in the enterprise, regardless of how they affect data security. That is the new reality" (www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/security/231002676).

The idea of carrying only one mobile device to fill multiple roles appeals to many employees. One device can handle personal and business calls, personal and business e-mails, report writing, and presentation...