Care And Feeding Of Mobile Devices Flashcards
Restarting the device, whether you do it from within the OS or with hardware buttons on the device
Soft Reset
Reduction in power to protect a device’s CPU from heat damage; performance should pick up as the device cools
Thermal Throttling
Occurs when too many consecutive login attempts fail, the purpose being to protect the device from brute-force attacks
System Lockout
A string of bits used by a computer program to encrypt or decrypt data
Key
A collection of configuration and security settings that an administer has created in order to apply those settings to particular categories of users or devices
Profile
Authentication factor that is something the user knows, such as a user name, password, date of birth, Social Security number, etc.
Knowledge Factor
Authentication factor that is something the user has in her possession such as a smart card or token
Ownership/Possession Factor
Authentication factor that is something the user either is or something they do like a biometric identifier
Inherence
Looks through the permissions requested by your installed apps to assess the risk they pose to security and privacy
App Scanner
Technique that involves setting up equipment to spoof a carrier’s tower and infrastructure and cause a cellular device to use it instead of the normal tower equipment. Requires overpowering the nearest legitimate cell signal, causing the cellular device to lock onto it instead
Tower Spoofing
The user installs a program on the iOS device that changes settings Apple didn’t intend for users to change. Allows a user to install blocked software, such as apps that don’t come from the App Store or apps that don’t meet Apple’s legal and quality requirements
Jailbreaking
For Android devices, is a similar procedure to grant the full administrative access to the lower-level functionality of the device. Done to install software or enable functions that could not otherwise be used on the device
Rooting
