Tiffane Smalls
March 29, 2014
Unit 2 Research Paper
Saturday AM NT2640

IS MOBILE BACKUP SAFE? My article of choice this week talks about how unsafe mobile backups and backup services are today. This article was written by a Robert Lemos on October 9, 2013. He elaborates on the fact that today there are more and more backup services being used, than there were back in the day. Almost every time we access a new site, or download an application we are asked to backup our information. While this opportunity is very helpful to most people who have lots of information they want to store on different devices. Businesses are becoming more cautious of the fact that all this information is at risk, when stored through third party services. Today, almost all companies 94 percent have worries about employees mixing personal and business data on their mobile devices, according to a survey published by online-backup provider EVault in January. ( Lemos et al., 2013) What people do not know is that a lot of data being stored in one place, becomes very attractive to attackers, and hackers. While allowing these sites to have access to this information, you are allowing them access to other things like your location, additional pictures, voice recordings, and business documents that u have on your device. This becomes a very easy way for people to steal your personal information, and possibly your identity. It’s even worse that you can’t tell whether the information is stolen or not. Another scare is that someone may be able to subpoena you for past phone calls or text messages. Just by syncing your phone with things lie social site, and email addresses leave your information vulnerable to anyone. A solution to the problem is for companies to store their data through one service, locally.