News Release
Protecting Your Mobile Phone
(March 10, 2009) -
With the ever increasing storage and computing power of cell phones today, if lost or stolen, they could seriously compromise your personal or University information. Most people know the contents of their wallets, but what about the contents of your cell phone? The following list of good practices can help in safeguarding the information on your phone:
- Apply a password - Turn on and set a password for your phone. The stronger the password the less likely someone could guess it.
- Delete confidential information from your phone - As most phones support messaging and email, it is vitally important to remove confidential information to prevent accidental disclosure.
- Keep it in a safe place, keep it routine - By keeping your phone in the same physical location such as your shirt or pant pocket, the same pouch of your purse or laptop bag, you decrease the chance that you will mistakenly leave it somewhere and you increase the chance you will notice it is missing when lost or stolen.
- Turn off Bluetooth when not in use - Why give malware or others the opportunity to access or attack your phone? It is best to turn it off if it is not in use.
- Record key information - Write down the make, model and serial number of the phone and keep that information in a safe place. When lost or stolen, the authorities will need this information.
Please report lost or stolen University provided cell phones to your local Technical Support Provider(TSP) as soon as possible.
