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Steps to mobile phone Security

Phone protection steps, regardless of your operating system:

Set up fingerprint or face recognition
Losing your phone is probably not uncommon, and having a secure passcode (especially something like fingerprint/facial recognition) will keep your phone safe from anyone who might happen to find it.

Use a VPN
VPNs essentially provide you with a secure phone connection to a private server instead of you having to share it with everyone else on the public network. In addition, your data is safer because it is encrypted as it travels from server to server.

Enable data encryption
Many devices already have encryption enabled, if your device doesn’t, you’ll need to set that up. Data encryption can protect your information from hackers by scrambling it in a code they don’t recognize as it travels from server to server (when it’s most vulnerable).

Set up remote wipe capabilities
This ability enables you to remove any data from your phone, even if you no longer have the physical phone itself. It’s a great safety feature in case your phone is lost and you can’t find it. Gadget Track can help you with the process to set up remote wipe on your device.

Suppose you have a device management product like Gadget Track. In that case, remote wipe is likely part of their service, along with other capabilities like tracking.

Using Gadget Track will help you execute a full format of your mobile device remotely to make sure none of your personal information is accessed. In addition, the wipe will delete everything inside the device, including the sensitive info. Hence, it would help if you only used it when recovering the device is less important than securing your data. by Hakim Mahere, CTO (Tech Up Solutions) talk to me on mahere232@gmail.com