CompTIA Security+ Exam Notes

CompTIA Security+ Exam Notes
Let Us Help You Pass

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Security+ Mobile Devices 3rd Party Apps

Jailbreaking, Rooting, and Sideloading

Sideloading: Installing an app from a different source than the official app store.
This can be achieved on an Android by enabling the setting.
To do this on an iPhone requires that the device is jailbroken. 

Jailbreaking / Rooting
These methods are used to get elevated privileges to system files on mobile devices. This can be prevented by using MDM (Mobile Device Management).

Jailbreaking: iOS (iPad, iPhone)
Rooting: Android

No comments:

Post a Comment