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Managing Security Settings
• Defend: Once identied, dangerous apps can be
removed remotely.
Managing Security Settings
You can activate and protect your phone from
unauthorized access by conguring the security settings.
1. From the Home or All Apps icon ( ), tap on
Settings ( ).
2. Tap on Security located under Personal settings.
Enable the required settings to preferred security
settings from the following options:
Encrypting Your Phone Data
You can encrypt your accounts, settings downloaded
apps and their data,media and other les.
• Tap on Encrypt phone to encrypt your phone. Once
you encrypt your phone ,you need to type a numeric
PIN or Password to decrypt it each time you power
it on.
Encryption takes an hour or more .You must
start with a charged battery and keep your
phone plugged in untill encryption is complete.
If you interrupt the encryption process,you will
lose some or all of your data.
Locking Your SIM Card
You can set SIM lock for your SIM.
1. Tap on Setup SIM/RUIM card lock.
2. Tap on Lock SIM card.
To disable this option you must enter your SIM lock
PIN.
3. Enter SIM PIN and tap OK.
4. Tap on Change SIM PIN. Enter the old SIM PIN and
tap OK.
Device Administrator Settings
You can enable device administrators and allow the App
launcher to perform the following tasks:
• Erase all data without alert, when you perform a
factory reset.
• Change the screen unlock password.
• Set specic password rules.
• Monitor the screen-unlock attempts.
• Lock the screen.
To activate device administrator, tap on Device
Administrators > enable Launcher > Activate.
Protecting Your Phone from Harmful Applications
Some applications can harm your device. It is
recommended to verify apps in order to help prevent
harmful software from being installed on your device To
prevent installation of application from unknown sources,
disable the option Unknown sources.
If you want to install applications from unknown sources,
enable Verify apps under Settings > Security, to verify if
the application is safe for installation.
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