A company is issuing smartphone to employees and needs to ensure data is secure if the devices are lost or stolen. Which of the following provides the BEST solution?
This question is quite vague, but there's few details that help us making a decision:
First of all the question doesn't say that the company wants to preserv the data on phone a s valuable, so wiring the data is a good option.
If option D was multifactor or biometric unlock, i would have considered it, but is just mentioning lockscreen, which is easily skippable, so not safe at all.
However, once an ondividual with malicious intention has your smartphone, he can easily access to all data without even turning it on, so remote wire is the best option
B is the correct answer because the best wat to secure data is to erase it and destroy it. If phones are stolen/lost, the other options will not prevent data leaks. B is the best option here.
A screen lock is the correct answer, remote wiping will only work if the phone is connected to the internet, if anyone steals a phone the first thing they are going to do is disable any internet connectivity ,but if a phone is stolen/lost with a screen lock one one will be able to access the data on the phone provided they don't know the password.
According to CompTia they want to know what will keep someone from getting into the data so say there is already a screen lock on it, but someone finds a way to get into it. Once it is reported lost or stolen the company can find that phone and wipe the data clean. Remote wipe is the best answer
Remote wipe enables you to remotely erase the data on the mobile device if the device is lost or stolen. If you enable the remote wipe feature on your mobile device, you can permanently delete data stored on your lost or stolen mobile device. You should make sure the erase feature completely erases the data
I go with screen lock because it says to "ensure data is secure". If we wipe the device then there is no data. To ensure security we need to encrypt it and put a pin on the device. Overally the question is not complete and you can perceive either ways. It is a bad comptia question. I faced a similar question like this with a small change, in that question it was mentioned "without losing data" so the answer was pin. Here the question is not complete. If we don't overthink it the "remote wipe" make sense, if we overthink it the "pin" is the answer.
Data is secured if it follows the CIA triad, and the device is lost or stolen. The best option will be to remotely wipe the device if the device cannot be recovered to keep data secured. Definitely company data will always have some type of backup.
I see where you are getting at, so when employers are issuing their employees smartphones having pin makes data more secure LOGICALLY though. If the lost device is found by a stranger, data can be stolen physically. It only takes a screwdriver and that data is far from secure.
Screen lock. If it gets stolen, nobody knows your password and can't access the data
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