Chapter 7. Managing Hosts and Applications Deployment

In this chapter, we are going to look at different mobile devices and their characteristics, and applications that run on those devices. In the Security+ exam, you need to know all of these aspects thoroughly, as this chapter is heavily tested. Let's first of all look at deploying mobile devices securely, followed by their management and security.

We will cover the following exam objectives in this chapter:

• Explain the impact associated with types of vulnerabilities: Pointer dereference—race conditions
• Given a scenario, deploy mobile devices securely: Connection methods—cellular—Wi-Fi—SATCOM—Bluetooth—NFC—ANT—infrared—USB. Mobile device management concepts—application management—content management—remote wipe—Geofencing—Geolocation—screen locks—push notification services—passwords and pins—biometrics—context-aware authentication. Containerization—storage segmentation—full device encryption. Enforcement and monitoring for: third-party app...