Eight Amazing Security Apps

With the incred­i­bly advanced tech­nol­o­gy that’s avail­able to the gen­er­al pub­lic today, it’s no sur­prise that peo­ple have start­ed to uti­lize it in a way that ben­e­fits their own per­son­al pro­tec­tion. From remote­ly view­ing live footage of your home’s secu­ri­ty cam­era to lock­ing your car after you’ve already left the park­ing lot, there are numer­ous ways to keep your­self safe with the help of apps.

How­ev­er, of all the secu­ri­ty apps avail­able, the most advanced ones are usu­al­ly for the phones them­selves! Keep­ing your phone pro­tect­ed with a lock code is only the first step in cell phone secu­ri­ty.

To save you the time of brows­ing the App Store, below is a list of eight apps that will increase your per­son­al secu­ri­ty!

360 Secu­ri­ty

This is a free Android app that cov­ers all your cell­phone-spe­cif­ic secu­ri­ty needs. It reg­u­lar­ly screens your phone for bugs and has a 100% suc­cess rate in catch­ing mal­ware.

Avast!

Avast is a big play­er in the mobile secu­ri­ty game. It is a depend­able, though resource-inten­sive, pro­gram that comes with some amaz­ing add-ons. Among oth­er things, it includes anti-theft pro­tec­tions that let you oper­ate and lock your phone remote­ly.

Find My iPhone

Not exact­ly an app, but it is use­ful. Find my iPhone is a built-in func­tion in iOS that lets you geo-locate your phone from any­where.

Look­out!

iOS is a secure oper­at­ing sys­tem; thus, most devel­op­ment on it has focused on theft pre­ven­tion. Look­out! Is an advanced anti-theft app that notices unusu­al move­ments or activ­i­ty on devices and alerts you to pos­si­ble theft. It’s an excel­lent way for the com­pa­ny to know the exact moment when any of its employ­ees’ devices have gone miss­ing.

True­Crypt

True­Crypt is a depend­able free­ware encryp­tion tool. It is use­ful for encrypt­ing data before trans­fer­ring it to vul­ner­a­ble loca­tions like phones and USB keys. The newest ver­sion runs on Win­dows 8.

Last­Pass Pass­word Man­ag­er

Pass­word Man­ag­er apps use a sin­gle login to fill in the pass­word info on all oth­er logins. This might sound like it would make your data less secure, but, in prac­tice, it makes it more secure.

Employ­ees often get lazy and use the same pass­word for dif­fer­ent logins, fail to change their pass­words in a time­ly fash­ion, or use brows­er auto-com­plete options. These are much less secure, so avoid poor prac­tices by giv­ing employ­ees a pass­word man­ag­er app.

Como­do Inter­net Secu­ri­ty Pre­mi­um

This suite has antivirus and spy­ware removal, sure, but the fire­wall is where it real­ly shines. The fire­wall draws few resources and is incred­i­bly user-friend­ly, mak­ing it easy for IT to set up a secure net­work.

ViceV­er­sa Pro

This is an afford­able back­up pro­gram that offers excel­lent secu­ri­ty for archived data. Many busi­ness­es run it on every device for auto­mat­ic doc­u­ment back­up, sav­ing their employ­ees the time of upload­ing all their data to Sky­Drive.