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Mobile Device Security

What is a "mobile device"?

Mobile devices include portable computers (such as laptops, notebooks, tablet PC’s); handheld devices (such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s), SmartPhones, BlackBerries) and portable storage devices such as USB thumb drives or hard drives.

What is "mobile device security"?

Mobile device security refers to those tools and techniques that are particularly useful for mitigating the types of threats that mobile devices are commonly exposed to: namely theft, loss, and communication over insecure public networks such as the Internet or wireless hotspots.