ABSTRACT
One possible solution is to employ a mobile device management tool that gives a degree of monitoring and control over the data on smart phones and tablets. The newer versions of Apple’s iOS offer hardware encryption for the devices applications like TouchDown can containerize company data on Android devices, many of which do not offer native encryption. Furthermore, users will balk at the idea of you implementing the same kind of robust password policy for computers on smart phone or tablet. After the network password has been changed, instruct the user to go to the mobile device’s “Settings” area and change the network password there before taking the device out of “airplane mode.” Google can flip a kill switch and render the malicious apps unusable, once spotted, but the fact that it occurred in the first place, followed by days of radio silence and scrambling, should make all security practitioners a little wary.
