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Your organization is concerned about employees using their own mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) to access company resources and information. You have been charged with developing and delivering training for employees on mobile device security. Your training needs to contain at least four (4) tips for securing mobile devices. You need to pick two of the common mobile platforms (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows 8) for this training. It can be in any form you like, but needs to be informative as well as visually appealing (This is going out to your company, so make it look good).

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i will provide some strategies, which you can include in your training .

1. Firstly and most importently teach employees about phishing scams.

Phishing is the most proven and simple way to perform cybercriminals by which you can steal data. Research have shown that it is fairly easy it is to get employees to fall for these scams: The worker receives an email that has an urgency to it (e.g., subject line: "Get back to me asap"). Inside the mail is a link that the sender urges the recipient to click on. The link takes the user to a fake website that lures him or her into revealing sensitive company information.

2. Make employees aware about the fact that the sender may pose as the company's bank or as someone from the board of directors.

Employees may still be into clicking on a link inside an email , even with the understnading of the phishing. To make things simple and to avoid confusion, simply demand that employees not click on any links inside emails. Tell them that nobody will be penalized for not clicking on a link inside an email.

3. Employees should beware of free download offers.

Clicking on these freewares lead to activate a computer virus.

4. Employees should be made buy apps from a trusted app store only and not from third-party sources.

5. Employees should be made sure to protect all their devices with passwords and know the password policies.

6. All devices used for business by the employees should have an inbuilt function to "wipe" the device data remotely or locally.

The more employees you have, it is that much harder to get every single one to password-protect their devices.With the “wipe” function. If the device is lost or stolen, all the data on it can be eradicated -- remotely.

7. All devices used for business should erase their data automatically after a set number of password attempts..

8. All devices, especially Androids, should be required to have anti-virus software to avoid malwares

9. Employees should never “jailbreak” or “root” a mobile device used for bussiness purpose.

Malware can infiltrate if the walled garden of the device is broken down because the user has manipulated the device's factory-installed operating system.

10. Employees should activate their update alerts immediately rather than opt for "remind me later."(No option should be provided to remind later or postpone)

These updates patch up security holes so that evolving cyber-pathogens do not gain entry.

11. No use of public Wi-Fi

Employees should be made aware about the fact that joining any public unknow wi-fi could lead to dangerous attacks.

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