Ten simple steps to secure your smartphone

We’ve become a mobile nation. The smartphone has revolutionised personal and corporate communication, with email on the move and social networking wherever we may be. The boundaries between consumer and business use have become so blurred that BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) has become the security buzzword of the year, and you’re as likely to hear talk of “apps” in the boardroom as the living room. But it isn’t just new words that the smartphone revolution has introduced. It's also a new age of IT security risk. We’re long past the days of mobile security being little more than a sales gimmick for security vendors looking to push unnecessary products: so what are the real risks and what can you do to mitigate against them?