TAC-TECHS: Securing the Pocket-Sized Toolkit - Smartphones as Tactical Tools

Smartphones: Everyone has one, but have you thought about how crucial these devices are to your PACE plan? This 3 hour session will take you through a review of smartphone security best-practices and tools that you may not have known were at your fingertips. 

Topics covered in this sessions will include:

• How your cell phone fits into your PACE plan
• The most common methods of communication on a cellular phone
• How cellular phone networks work
• Cellular network redundancies 
• How to make your communications more secure
• How to make your phone hardware more secure

Participant Participation will include a show and tell of:

• Portable solar chargers & backup batteries
• Faraday bags
• Rugged and tactical phone cases
• OpenSource / De-Googled phone OS

Following this session, participants will have a better understanding of how their smartphone fits into their PACE plan, how to make their phone hardware and their communications more secure, and how to protect this critically important device.