The safest computers are iPhones and iPads

  • 21 November 2014
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Every week, it seems, we seem to hear of another breach at a retailer or other provider. This week, it was the U.S. Postal Service's turn to get its data center hacked, exposing personal data of 800,000 employees. Data centers aren't alone in being vulnerable: The state of California's annual breach report showed that lost or stolen unencrypted computers and USB thumb drives remain the biggest security threat outside of hacked data centers. The national breach database run by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse shows the same pattern.
 
But rarely do you see smartphones and tablets in these reports. Why? Because they're more secure than computers and data centers. That fact must be galling for the IT security pros fretting over the alleged perils of mobile devices while the PCs and data centers they manage leak like sieves. (IT shops have been told for years to encrypt PCs, yet few do.)
But it's true: Mobile devices are safer than PCs and servers.
 
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