Mobile Security Concerns

Android.. android.. android.. I hope that hardly anyone would be unaware of this term nowadays. Android based devices have become an inseparable part of our daily life.. from low end mobile to high end tabs android is everywhere. It helps us to stays connected on the social media portals, to chat with our friends and families, to click pictures on the go and upload, to find direction in unknown areas, to find restaurants, cinemas, shopping malls.. to pay bills .. so on and so forth..

Our dependency on android based devices has lured the cyber criminals and also provided them an easy platform as mobile security is in its nascent stages.. no matter how big talks are being done on these topics, still mobile security is far behind than where it must have been considering the growing usage of mobile devices for personal and professional purposes. The exponential growth of mobile usage has its own demeaning effect on the information security efforts, its like technology is advancing so fast that security professionals are finding it difficult to cope up with that pace.

So what is the remedy? Well most important aspect of mobile security is to understand that mobile security isn’t only about device security, the prime objective is to protect the data/ information. If we focus our efforts to ensure the security of data and information, we would be able to optimally utilize the limited resources. Determine the criticality of information and don’t let the device security affect it.