Threats to Wireless and Mobile Devices
While the expanded principles of information security are good in a general sense, they are not very instructive with regard to the day-to-day protection of mobile and wireless clients, devices, and networks. This section looks at some specific threats, which are broken into three categories:
- Data theft
- Device control
- System access
These categories will have some overlap, but they cover the full breadth of threats.
Before looking at specific mobile and Wi-Fi threats, it’s important to remember that virtually every threat that exists on wired networks also exists on wireless and mobile networks. In addition to these threats, some threats are specific to wireless and mobile or now have wireless and mobile ...
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