Mobile device security for the road warrior

Employees who use their smartphones and other mobile devices while traveling face greater risk that their devices will be compromised, posing a threat to corporate systems. Travelers can minimize the risk by taking a few simple and inexpensive precautions.

CSO Senior Writers Steve Ragan and Fahmida Rashid outline how they prepared for their recent trip to the Black Hat event in Las Vegas. Black Hat is one of the biggest hacker conventions and notorious for having attendees’ phones breached. If you can survive Black Hat without your mobile device compromised, you can trust it to be reasonably secure anywhere. Here’s how Ragan and Rashid stayed safe at Black Hat.

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