6. Maintaining Mobile Security

Today we live nearly our entire lives on our mobile phones, with varying levels of privacy. We keep pace with the latest mobile upgrades, but we’re not always careful about our mobile security.

While the benefits and convenience of this mobile existence are obvious, it also means that our most important data—contacts, banking details, social networking account information, and even corporate emails and sensitive company data—are also stored on our phones, which can create major security and privacy issues.

We’ll address these concerns—and specific solutions—in this chapter.

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