ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) Practice Question

A core element of most BYOD policies is the requirement that personal devices support remote wipe. If a phone or tablet containing company data is lost or stolen, administrators can trigger a remote wipe to erase corporate information and prevent unauthorized access. Disabling encryption weakens protection rather than improves it, granting root access increases risk by removing operating-system safeguards, and auto-connecting to public Wi-Fi exposes the device to additional threats. Therefore, remote wipe is the control that directly addresses data loss from lost or stolen devices.