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Stony Brook University Division of Information Technology Cyber Security Awareness Video.
How Secure are your mobile devices?
Matt Nappi, IT Security Analyst DoIT "An additional step students can take - really it applies
to everybody, but especially students - is record the serial number and MAC address of
any of your mobile devices. That way in the event that they are lost or stolen, when we
recover those devices or Campus Police recovers those devices, we can confirm that the device
belongs to you. In addition, never leave your device unattended. So, make sure it is always
within your sight because they do disappear quickly, so we want to make sure they are
always within arm's length."
Long Lu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science: "Actually, one of the biggest concerns for
mobile security is what if your device gets lost? Either loss prevention or after the
device gets lost, how do you prevent your sensitive data from getting in the hands of
other people? Password is definitely one thing that we can rely on at this moment, and also
for professional users or users who share very sensitive data on their device, I would
also suggest to turn on the encryption feature of your device. As far as I know, for iOS
or Apple devices, this is automatically turned on when you have a screen logger meaning you
have a password or passcode on these devices. When the screen's locked, your data is encrypted
automatically. On Android and other devices, you need to turn on this feature explicitly,
but you can find this feature on almost all the popular devices.