Protect Your BlackBerry Phone With Simple Security Tips

BlackBerry phones are aimed at business people and so security is an important issue. If you have sensitive information stored in your BlackBerry phone then you must follow these simple security tips:

1. BlackBerry ID- A user’s BlackBerry ID is the email id and password you use to gain access to BlackBerry websites, app stores and services. If you use the same id on all your devices, it will make data transfer from on device to the other easy. Use your BlackBerry ID to log into Blackberry website, track your purchases and payments in the BlackBerry world, start or stop the BlackBerry Protect service, that allow you to track your phone if it is lost. You have to set your BlackBerry ID features to protect your phone.
2. BlackBerry Protect- This allows you to track the present location of your phone if you lose it, if you have the location services turned on. You can make your phone ring, if you have just forgot the phone at home or office and you can display a custom message on the lost phone’s lock screen, giving instructions that if someone finds it how they can return it. If you think your phone is stolen then you call lock it remotely with BlackBerry protect, delete all the data on your phone remotely.
3. Add a password lock- Set a password lock on your phone, even if you think there is nothing in the phone that is valuable if it is lost or stolen. You can make and receive calls and notification and make emergency calls to even when your device is locked. You can check your battery status, set alarm and click pictures too while your phone is locked. Set a password by tapping the settings button and look in the security and privacy section of the device password option. Enable this option and select a password when you are prompted.
4. Create a picture password- A picture password is a combination of picture and number gesture, which makes it easy to unlock your phone with one hand. Your combinations options are endless. To set a picture password, you have to first set a device password. Now you have to swipe down from the top of the home screen and tap the settings button. Head in to the security section and tap device password and flip the picture password option on. Now enter the device password and choose your picture and number combination and follow the rest of the instructions which appear on your screen.
5. PIN- To further protect your phone, you can apply a PIN code to the SIM card on your phone. This will help you prevent your SIM card from being removed from your phone and used in another device as the SIM will not function in any other device without PIN being entered correctly. To set PIN number on your SIM you have to turn on the SIM card security in the BlackBerry settings and contact your service provider to receive the PIN code.