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6 Tips for Businesses to Protect Themselves Against Mobile Malware

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6 Tips for Businesses to Protect Themselves Against Mobile Malware

Policies like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are taking these benefits of mobile devices to an even higher level, since such a policy allows employees to work using their personal mobile devices that they are well-familiar and comfortable with.

The fact that employees can use their mobile devices to work anywhere they want, from the private environments of office and home to the public environments of parks and cafes, calls for stricter security measures for these devices.

In this audit process, you want to know the type of mobile devices being used, what type of business tasks and activities are these devices being used for, the common locations where the devices are used for working, the types of security risks that the devices are typically exposed to, and the security software solutions that the devices have currently installed.

If you have a BYOD policy, then carrying out such a detailed auditing process becomes all the more necessary, because the range of mobile devices being used in this case would be very extensive and the audit process will help you keep track of them all.

In the event where a mobile malware does make its way into the mobile device and either destroys the data or holds it captive (if the mobile malware is a ransomware), thorough data backups can swoop in to save the day.

You could go for managed IT services to help you out with securely backing up all the data.

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