Five Myths about Mobile Security | mobile devices | WisdomPlexus

Mobile Security is referred to as securing mobile devices like laptops, smartphones, tablets and other portable computing devices from vulnerabilities and threats associated with wireless computing.
Mobile security also known as mobile device security has become increasingly important in this era of mobile computing. Mobile security seeks to address the downside of this era i.e. Security gap. Here are five security myths about mobile devices :
Five Myths about Mobile Security
    1. BYOD promotes loose Security practices
      Businesses and their employees are profiting from device sharing strategies. One of these trends called Bing your device (BYOD) is helping the latter. If an IT organisation has firm guidelines to ensure that which personal devices should be accepted in the BYOD program coupled with IT security practices and usage practices, then BYOD can be just as secure as mobile devices issued by enterprises.
    2. Two-factor authentication is not needed for mobile devices
      Two-factor authentication ensures security since most of the times the user ID and password are stored in your device, that is prone to be misplaced. It is therefore advisable to use additional security sign in code (e.g. name of the high school you attended) along with your user ID and password.

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