The top 9 ways to secure mobile devices

[Bob Russell]

Mobile devices are more and more powerful, and can hold more and more data. With their high resale value, and the general tendency to store sensitive data on a portable device, they are also becoming a popular target for theives. But even if you lose your device because you left it behind somewhere, you want to know your sensitive data is secure.

Computerworld has addressed this topic in an article called The top 9 ways to secure mobile devices. A summary of these tips aimed at a corporate environment:

1. Education of users
2. Use password protection
3. Install a system that enforces reasonable data security policies
4. Control which files can and cannot be downloaded by various users
5. Encrypt either individual files or the entire device contents
6. Enforce connection/VPN security standards
7. Require active firewall protection and virus protection
8. Enable device lockdown and "kill" functions
9. Log device access of sensitive data

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