Best iOS7 Security Features
The new iOS 7 comes from with great features and more elegance
look , with some very interesting and useful security additions within the phone. iPhone theft is on the rise, here’s looking at the seven security features that the iOS 7 fans must implement for safeguarding security.
1. Find My iPhone authentication – This feature assists in locating your missing device, remotely locking it, sending a contact message to it, and erasing the phone’s data. This feature had been there since iOS 5 and the primary step by an iPhone thief is to switch it off. The latest iOS 7 needs its user to input the password for the associated Apple ID account for disabling the feature.
2. Activation Lock – This feature connects the device to your Apple ID and needs your Apple ID password before anyone can restore or reactivate the device. This feature is enabled so long as the Find My iPhone feature is activated as well.
3. Erase authentication – The new iOS 7 prevents the erasing of authentication code by uses the device passcode instead of password. So you must ensure you have them enabled on your phone.
4. Added Privacy settings – The iOS 7 makes privacy controls simple by allowing you to manage permissions for each app on your device with a mere on/off switch. The iOS 7 stretches this feature and permits you to assign which apps should have access to your microphone, camera, and cellular data.
5. Expanded data encryption – The older versions of iOS came with benefits that restricted it to the core iOS data. Third-party apps could make use of the encryption only if the app developer had included the protection. The iOS 7 has both the iOS and the third-party apps installed by you encrypted as default with the only exception being that the data encryption is attached to the device passcode.
6. Per-app VPN – This permits your iPhone to make a secure connection with remote resources including a corporate network, encrypting the traffic and preventing it from being intercepted or compromised. VPN comes with two extra benefits, firstly it allows you to configure apps so that they can connect over VPN only once they are launched. Secondly, the VPN tunnel is limited to the app hence personal information and Web browsing activity are not merged with the app data. The single exception being that the app developer should implement per-app VPN within the app.
7. iCloud Keychain – It is difficult to remember passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data. This feature stores your contact information, usernames and passwords, and credit card information in a secure manner and syncs information to all of your iOS 7 devices and Mac OS X systems. Apple offers protection to the iCloud Keychain information with 256-bit AES encryption.
2. Activation Lock – This feature connects the device to your Apple ID and needs your Apple ID password before anyone can restore or reactivate the device. This feature is enabled so long as the Find My iPhone feature is activated as well.
3. Erase authentication – The new iOS 7 prevents the erasing of authentication code by uses the device passcode instead of password. So you must ensure you have them enabled on your phone.
4. Added Privacy settings – The iOS 7 makes privacy controls simple by allowing you to manage permissions for each app on your device with a mere on/off switch. The iOS 7 stretches this feature and permits you to assign which apps should have access to your microphone, camera, and cellular data.
5. Expanded data encryption – The older versions of iOS came with benefits that restricted it to the core iOS data. Third-party apps could make use of the encryption only if the app developer had included the protection. The iOS 7 has both the iOS and the third-party apps installed by you encrypted as default with the only exception being that the data encryption is attached to the device passcode.
6. Per-app VPN – This permits your iPhone to make a secure connection with remote resources including a corporate network, encrypting the traffic and preventing it from being intercepted or compromised. VPN comes with two extra benefits, firstly it allows you to configure apps so that they can connect over VPN only once they are launched. Secondly, the VPN tunnel is limited to the app hence personal information and Web browsing activity are not merged with the app data. The single exception being that the app developer should implement per-app VPN within the app.
7. iCloud Keychain – It is difficult to remember passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data. This feature stores your contact information, usernames and passwords, and credit card information in a secure manner and syncs information to all of your iOS 7 devices and Mac OS X systems. Apple offers protection to the iCloud Keychain information with 256-bit AES encryption.
Secure your iPhone using the latest locking, encryption and data saving features of the iOS 7.
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