From the course: CompTIA A+ (220-902) Cert Prep: 5 Mobile Devices

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Securing iOS devices

Securing iOS devices

- If you want a guaranteed way to get someone to break into your car, just take your nice, brand new iPad and lay it on the front seat. That'll pretty much guarantee that any thief is gonna wanna break in there and there's a reason for that, because everybody loves iPhones and they love iPads. So, what we need to do is talk about how we can keep these guys secure. When I'm talking about security here, I'm saying if some bad guy steals it, maybe I wanna go get it back or maybe I wanna wipe it. I wanna prevent people from being able to get to my data, and if possible, I wanna be able to get my stuff back. So, let's talk about some of those issues. Now, keep in mind, these are based on objectives from the CompTIA A+, so some of them are actually kind of funny. Speaking of funny, here's number one, anti-malware, there is none for anything that comes from Apple. Nobody has any real malware problems with them and as a result of that, there are no McAfee for your iPad type things. So, don't…

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