Top 7 Tips to Secure Your Smartphone

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Top 7 Tips to Secure Your Smartphone
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1) Set Up A Lock Screen

• This is the first thing to do before you start
  using your smartphone. Locking your screen
  prevents unauthorized users from accessing your
  phone. You can use either a PIN, password,
  pattern, face unlock, fingerprint or other
  vendor-specific locking mechanism to lock your
  phone.

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2) Encrypt Your Phone

• The majority of smartphone users fail to
  encrypt their phone, which is very important to
  do. Encrypting your phone prevents people from
  accessing your data offline, either through
  Recovery or another mode. The latest versions of
  Android and iOS, however, come with
  out-of-the-box encryption. 

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3) Turn off Wireless Protocols When Not in Use

• Many people leave their Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or
  NFC on more often than not. Aside from draining
  your battery quickly, it opens a door for bad
  guys to use rogue wireless access points,
  sniffing tools, and other sophisticated
  techniques to extract data from your smartphone.
  Disable your Wi-Fi and other wireless radio once
  youre done using them. Also, never accept
  requests from unknown devices trying to connect
  to your phone. If you dont know how to disable
  your Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.,

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4) Avoid Root / Jailbreak / Custom Roms

• Jailbreaking your iPhone or rooting your
  Android grants you full access to the operating
  system, which, by default, is restricted to
  guarantee your safety. Rooting and jailbreaking
  does provide you with a wide range of tweaking
  possibilities, but in turn, exposes your phone to
  malware, hackers, and all the bad stuff you can
  think of. Although Androids SuperUser app
  protects the phones from unauthorized access to
  root privileges, thats still not good enough.
• While most of us techies love custom mobile
  setups, its impossible to tell which servers
  custom roms communicate with and what data are
  being sent. Although they offer a better
  experience, it comes at your own risk.

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5) Update your Operating System Regularly

• Smartphone manufacturers release regular
  updates to improve upon the User Interface,
  provide more features, and most importantly,
  patch security and stability flaws. Refraining
  from updating your smartphone exposes it to these
  flaws and then leaves it to the mercy of
  attackers. Make it a priority to update your
  operating system whenever its available. Also
  update your downloaded applications regularly
  since they may sometimes contain bugs which could
  be dangerous to your smartphone.

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6) Use A VPN

• Everybody loves free Wi-Fi, but some of the
  most dangerous cyber attacks originate from
  public Wi-Fi access points at restaurants, bars,
  and hotels. Malicious attackers can use their
  technical knowledge to perform Man-In-The-Middle
  attacks and gain access to your personal
  information. If you cant avoid using public
  networks, you better use a VPN. A VPN allows you
  to connect to the Internet through a secure,
  encrypted private tunnel. Newshosting offers a
  VPN service as both a standalone service and as
  an add-on to Usenet subscriptions. 

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7) Use a Remote Control Service

• All the major mobile operating systems have
  now incorporated remote control and killswitch
  features to enable you to interact with your
  phone if its been stolen or missing. This
  service enables you to track, lock, wipe and even
  contact your phone by using another device
  connected to the Internet. With this, your data
  is kept out of the wrong hands even if the device
  falls into them. Apples Find my iPhone and
  Androids Android Device Manager gives you remote
  access to iOS and Android devices respectively

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