The Usage of Mobile Phones Has Been Upgraded from Making/ Receiving Calls to Multifunctional Gadget, and to Store Our Day-To-Day Sensitive Data, it can be Company Secrets, Medical Information’s, Bank Details etc. Given the Fact That Smartphones/Tablets Can Control Some of Our Most Sensitive Details, it's Our Responsibility to secure them. There are Some Internal and External Tweaks/Tricks, you can do to secure your investment. Before Going Deep, Basic common sense tip that you must know is, Be aware of what your smartphone stores.
Security Features of Smartphone:
1. Your smartphone has the best security feature installed by default, so use it! Wondering what that might be? Its lock code, lock your smartphone with a code. Setting a lock code is easy just head to security menu in system settings and change the lock screen mode to key and enter a code which is nowhere related to you so that it will be difficult to crack, there are some methods to bypass the lock code but those won’t work all the time. Lock code security is considered as one of the best features in securing your device.
2. Make Good use of “Do Not Track Me” option in your web browser to hide your identity, many might not this trick, but it work great. A simple explanation for using this feature is, the information you provide onto your browser/website is stored in form of cache and later the same data is used against you to show relevant advertisements, do not track me option keeps you away from storing the data, although most websites don’t care enough for your preference, but some will do.
3. “Stay Away From Spam Calls” Prevention is always better than Cure, Relating the Saying to Present Topic, Stay Away From Spam be it Calls, messages or anything. One important thing to note is that don’t enter your mobile number or any other personal details in any non-trusted sources, this is actually a telemarketing scam at first they call you to make your number is given correct and once they confirm it, they sell your mobile number to various companies and they start sending you spam messages and calls so in order to be safe from this kind of traps make sure you don’t enter any of your details in any non-trusted source.
4. “Always Keep Your Location Service On” Make Sure You put Your Location Service online, it's provided by Google for a reason, it is can be used to track the location of your phone if it's lost, went missing, or robbed. And Google’s Android Device Manager App Does a Good Job in Tracking the Exact Location, so Always keep your location service on. This helps big time and also install android device manager and set it as a device administrator
5. “Secure Your Investment” There Might Be Many Hurdles or Threats Coming From Infinite Directions But There is always a way to handle them, but in the end you must be smart enough to tackle them and follow all the safety measures and secure your investment.
Here are some Extra Pointers:
- Always install Android Apps from Google Play Store, Don’t Try Any Third Party Stores and Let Them Trap You. Live and Let Live the Hardworking developers
- Maintain Regular backups, by backup we mean apps/games/data etc.
- Update Apps/ O.S, Apps updates brings many bug fixes and security upgrades so it's suggested that update apps and operating system as soon as they are made available, they are updated for your own benefit.
- One important thing to be noted is, try to avoid mobile bill payments and money transfer, it’s a good medium to steal your data, unless its emergency or you don’t have any other choice avoid mobile transactions, but when you do make sure you log out correctly and never chose to save login details for further use.
- Turn off your connectivity features like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when not in use.
Some of the Best Security Apps Available:
- Android Device Manager
- Avast Antivirus
- Look Out
- 360 Security
- AVG Antivirus Pro
- ESET Mobile Security
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