Mobile security is now more important than any desktop or laptop security –it’s much easier to lose a phone. Losing a phone is so much more than losing the hardware – it’s worse than losing your wallet.

Criminals profit more from your information than your handset. The problem is two-fold: backing up your information for easy recovery, and being able to encrypt or destroy the information remotely.

For the back-up solution, many parts of the value-chain see themselves offering services in this space:
- Handset makers want to help users replace their handsets with the exact settings they last had;
- Network operators want to help customers migrate seamlessly from one handset to another;
- Consumers often prefer the third party, network agnostic, OTA back-up specialist.
The other side of the coin: OTA self-destruct. If you think you’ve been compromised, new services are emerging that provide dial-and-destroy countermeasures. Once you’ve destroyed your device, then just buy a new one and restore a perfect copy from your OTA backup.