A company is issuing smartphone to employees and needs to ensure data is secure if the devices are lost or stolen. Which of the following provides the BEST solution?
A company is issuing smartphone to employees and needs to ensure data is secure if the devices are lost or stolen. Which of the following provides the BEST solution?
To ensure data is secure if a smartphone is lost or stolen, the best solution is the ability to remotely wipe the device. Remote wipe allows the company to erase all data on the smartphone from a distance, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive information. While other options like screen locks and locator applications provide some level of security, they do not guarantee that the data will remain inaccessible if someone gains possession of the device and has the technical skills to bypass these measures. Anti-malware is useful for protecting against software threats but does not address the issue of physical loss or theft. Remote wipe is the only option that ensures the data can be completely removed from the device, thereby safeguarding it from unauthorized access.
Remote wipe is the only one of these options that can truly keep your data from being stolen.
This question is quite vague, but there's few details that help us making a decision: First of all the question doesn't say that the company wants to preserv the data on phone a s valuable, so wiring the data is a good option. If option D was multifactor or biometric unlock, i would have considered it, but is just mentioning lockscreen, which is easily skippable, so not safe at all. However, once an ondividual with malicious intention has your smartphone, he can easily access to all data without even turning it on, so remote wire is the best option
B. Remote wipe.
Remote wipe enables you to remotely erase the data on the mobile device if the device is lost or stolen. If you enable the remote wipe feature on your mobile device, you can permanently delete data stored on your lost or stolen mobile device. You should make sure the erase feature completely erases the data
Lock screen
Screen lock. If it gets stolen, nobody knows your password and can't access the data
And if they steal the phone and take the hard drive in it? B is the answer.
If its company based, I would say they would use strict protocol, therefore answer is, B Home user based, answer is, A
answer is B
haha i wish i could wipe remotely
Answer B.
Remote wipe allows the company to remotely erase all data on the smartphone, preventing unauthorized access to sensitive information.
Simple
According to CompTia they want to know what will keep someone from getting into the data so say there is already a screen lock on it, but someone finds a way to get into it. Once it is reported lost or stolen the company can find that phone and wipe the data clean. Remote wipe is the best answer
I go with screen lock because it says to "ensure data is secure". If we wipe the device then there is no data. To ensure security we need to encrypt it and put a pin on the device. Overally the question is not complete and you can perceive either ways. It is a bad comptia question. I faced a similar question like this with a small change, in that question it was mentioned "without losing data" so the answer was pin. Here the question is not complete. If we don't overthink it the "remote wipe" make sense, if we overthink it the "pin" is the answer.
I see where you are getting at, so when employers are issuing their employees smartphones having pin makes data more secure LOGICALLY though. If the lost device is found by a stranger, data can be stolen physically. It only takes a screwdriver and that data is far from secure.
Data is secured if it follows the CIA triad, and the device is lost or stolen. The best option will be to remotely wipe the device if the device cannot be recovered to keep data secured. Definitely company data will always have some type of backup.