Easy steps enhance mobile devices’ security

Security threats to users of mobile devices and applications are many — from lost phones, malicious applications and lack of encryption or backups to gaps in mobile computing policies.

Many challenges emerged as the business sector struggles to embrace the paradigm shift from company-owned devices and internal enterprise solutions to the cloud-based “bring your own device” — or BYOD — culture that values virtualization and mobility over control.

Shayne Higdon, new chief executive of Symplified Inc., a Boulder-based startup that develops mobile security tools such as single sign-on solutions, believes one best practice for companies is to have their IT departments address…