Here's How To Secure Your Mobile Before It Is Sold Or Stolen

Here's How To Secure Your Mobile Before It Is Sold Or Stolen – Securing data on cellphones is considered important to prevent data leaks that can harm users. Some of these things can be done to anticipate if the cellphone is stolen or when it is sold.

Cyber security observer from Lilin.com, Alfons Tanuwijaya, shared several guidelines for securing sensitive video data on cellphones so that someone doesn't misuse it.

Here are some ways to secure data on your phone.

• Ensure Encryption is Enabled

Check the data storage encryption technology, which is usually implemented on various types of cellphones, both iOS and Android.
This is important to protect the data on the cellphone, because the provider will usually store the data that the user has in the cloud storage.
Alfons further explained to double-check the encryption on the cellphone. In this case the user must check the password or pin used.
It is recommended to create a complex password with a combination of numbers that is more than four, and create a pin that is not easily guessed by someone who wants to steal our cellphone.
“If the password is 00000 or QWERT, it can be guessed, because the password is easy for thieves or people who take our cellphones to read. The key has to be a bit complicated,” said Alfons when contacted some time ago (30/12).
Apart from that, he also suggested activating the existing biometric function, as a security support. Biometrics is a complement to password security, in the form of fingerprint recording and retinal recording.

• Perform Factory Reset

Another way to secure data before the cellphone is sold or stolen is to do a factory reset. If the cellphone is going to be sold, it is important to do a factory reset or reset to factory settings.
In this way, the data on the user's cellphone can be deleted, but it must be ensured again that the data cannot be opened.
Alfons also reminded that smartphone users who want to sell their cellphones can fill in the data back to the cellphone which has been formatted with photos, videos and songs until it is full and then deleted again so that the data that is still stored is closed by the newest file.
"You need to do a save format or save destroy, when formatted it is filled again with empty data. If it's not like that, it's likely that the files in the local storage are still there."

• Enable 'Find my phone' remote search feature

Launching Gizmodo, this is considered important to protect cellphones when the cellphone is lost or stolen by someone else.
By using this feature, the user can activate the remote wipe feature on the cellphone, which can be activated if the cellphone is confirmed to be lost.
Apart from that, Lost Mode can also help users to lock the device remotely.
Android users can also use the same feature. Apart from being able to track the whereabouts of the cellphone by connecting to a Google account.
In this way Android users can activate it by going to Google settings, then going to the Android Device Manager page.

• Application Configuration

To prevent thieves from accessing your files that are in Dropbox or posting something on your social media. Perform configuration application considered important to secure an active account on your cellphone.
It is also considered important to activate Two Step Authentication for all services on your cellphone. This can prevent cell phone thieves from getting into applications or accounts that are considered at risk of harm, such as iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook, to the Mobile Banking application.

• Change password

If it is confirmed that the cellphone is lost, it is important to change all the passwords that are attached to your smartphone.
Consumer reports said, if we realize that the cellphone is lost, the main passwords that must be changed are financial accounts, credit card accounts, and online shopping accounts that are connected to the user's credit card.
This account has the potential to harm smartphone users whose cellphones have been lost or stolen.
That's how to secure data before the cellphone is sold or stolen. Some of the ways above can anticipate the data that is in your cellphone.
Alfons Tanuwijaya also recommends not storing personal data in local storage. This can be a big risk of leakage of personal data that is owned.

Source : cnnindonesia.com