A Deep Insight Into Mobile Security

Mobile security, or mobile device security, is the protection of smartphones, tablets, and laptops from threats associated with wireless computing. More people than ever access the internet using mobile devices, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones with desktop-computer capabilities. With this explosive growth in the use of mobile devices and applications comes an increasing number of threats to mobile security.

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In a nutshell, mobile security involves protecting smartphones, tablets, and laptops from cyber threats such as data loss, credential theft, account compromise, and so forth.

Why Is It Important?

With the increasing number of people using mobile devices either for work or daily use, mobile internet traffic has become the dominant form of web browsing over desktops. Mobile devices have a much bigger attack surface than desktops, making them a more significant threat to corporate security. The malware targeting these operating systems has also increased.

In this article, we are going to dive deeper into different aspects of mobile security.

Authentication and Onboarding

Authentication is the process of verifying a user’s identity, while onboarding is the process of registering a new user and providing them with access to your…