Exploring Mobile Device Security

Mobile devices can hold a significant amount of personal information, so including some security practices for these devices is worthwhile. A simple step users can take to protect mobile devices is to password-protect them. This way, if the phone is lost, there’s less possibility that someone can easily steal the personal information.

Smartphones today have significant capabilities and features. For example, many smartphones can send and receive email using a Microsoft Outlook interface and tie into Microsoft Exchange servers. Because these smartphones can tie into the network, they also need to be protected. An increasingly important step today is to install antivirus software on these mobile devices. Some mobile ...

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