Security Best Practices For Mobile Devices
With your bank and email passwords, you might believe that you are secure. What about your phone, though? With over 2 billion mobile devices, there are countless possibilities for hackers to access your phone. These are five actions you may do to ensure the security of your device:
Mobile Device Security Best Practices
We’ve put together a quick list of the seven essential learning and security practices you should follow to protect your mobile devices, which is more crucial than ever given the alarming surge in cybersecurity crimes that is happening every day.
Enable user authentication
Use a password manager
Always run updates
Avoid public wi-fi
Enable remote lock
Cloud backups
- Use MDM/MAM
Cloud Security and Data Backup
Remember that employee-owned mobile devices are also used to access your public cloud-based apps and services, raising the risk of data loss for your business. Hence, first and foremost, make a backup of your cloud data! You’ll still need to be able to retrieve any potentially affected data as soon as you can if your device is lost or stolen.
Choose a technology platform that keeps track of your files’ version history and enables you to revert to prior versions, at least going back 30 days. This is supported by Dropbox, Microsoft Office 365, and Google’s G Suite. Deleted files or previous versions are permanently lost after 30 days have passed. Read More…