Look at your smartphone. You likely have at least one email account on it, along with the associated contacts and calendar. You have your memos and to-do list. There’s your browsing history. Your phone history and text messages. Years of photos. Probably Facebook, and maybe Twitter or Google+. You might have a banking app, stores you frequent, or a travel app with your airline tickets.
More and more of our lives are on our smartphones and tablets. These tools have become increasingly useful, but that makes them increasingly problematic. Your digital life resides on and can be accessed through this device. This personal disposition makes our phones a mine of data about us, some of it potentially incredibly sensitive and damaging.
These phones track us everywhere we go – what apps deserve access to that data? Can we trust our smartphones to make financial transactions with businesses and our friends? How do we keep everything on our phones secure, and what do we do if we lose it? And what about everybody else’s personal social network and contact data on that device?
The more that’s on your phone, the more important security becomes.
