How to Ensure your Mobile Data is Secured?

Damn! Someone has stolen my mobile

phone. I am extremely worried whether my

data is secured…I wonder I could have erased it completely!

Oh no..I have lost my mobile phone. I am

afraid my data will be hacked

How is it possible? I had erased mobile data by

Factory Reset option, but my phone still have my

personal data?

Have you ever encountered any such situation?If not, you could be the next one….!

You might be putting yourself at RISK by giving away your personal information?

Do you know how secured your mobile data is?

Do you know how to erase your personal data from your mobile phone before selling it to someone else? Do you know

your mobile data Can be retrieved even after you erase it?

When you should erase sensitive personal information fromyour mobile phone?

Phone is Lost or Stolen

Selling your Phone Handing over your

Phone to Friend

But how to do it?

Mobile Data Cleaning Techniques

General Method: Factory Reset

Most of the users do the Factory Reset to erase / wipe out the data from

mobile phone. But, the data stays in your phone even after deletion and

can be retrieved by savvy hackers!

Advance Methods:

Remove all removable media like Memory Card / SD Card and SIM Card

Encryption: Encrypt information on phone. It is very hard for anybody to

retrieve the information.

Shredder Apps: These apps totally wiped out the data from phone and it

is extremely hard to retrieve. Popular apps like “iShredder” for iPhone

and “Andro Shredder” for Android Devices.

Mobile Data Cleaning Techniques for iPhone

Take backup before erasing the data!

Using iCloud: Device will back-up

automatically when connected to Wi-Fi. Through Manage Storage option, you can select what you want get backed up.

Using iTunes: It creates full image of phone

and can be used for restoring the data and settings into new device.

Mobile Data Cleaning Techniques for iPhone

Deleting/Wiping out data

Reset All Settings: Delete Settings and Preferences

Erase All Contents and Settings: Delete Data, Setting and Preferences

Unlink Apps with iPhone account

Remote Reset/Wiping your iPhone

Enable Find My iPhone in iCloud menu in your Settings

Sign-in to iCloud

Select your iPhone from the list of your devices

See a window of your phone’s picture along with 3 options

Tap on “Erase iPhone” when device is connected to internet

Mobile Data Cleaning Techniques for Android Devices

Take backup before erasing the data!

Using SD / Memory Card / Local Machine

Using Google Account

Using Backup Apps

Deleting/Wiping out data

Factory Data Reset: Delete Settings and Preferences

Unlink Apps with Google Account

Remote Reset/Wiping your Android

Enabled Allow remote lock and Factory Reset in your Settings.

Sign-in to Google

Select your phone from the list of your devices

Tap on “Erase” When device is connected to internet

Mobile Data Cleaning Techniques for Android Devices

The data stays in your phone after deletion byusing general practices as your data can still beretrieved.

To avoid this, data can be shredded ordestroyed completely with below mentionedtechniques:

Encryption: Incase phone is lost and encrypted;the data won’t be readable even if retrieval is triedforcefully.

Shredder Apps: Apps like iShredder (iOS) andAndroShredder (Android) destroys data completely.

Erase Mobile data through Encryption and Shredder

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Thank You Stay tuned for more useful information on mobile security!

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