The great thing about mobile devices is that you can take them almost anywhere, but the risk is that they contain all kinds of information that will be hard to replace. Let's admit it, mobile devices can sometimes be pretty easy to lose. Think about all that data, personal information like emails, photos, videos, calendars, health data, location data, you Candy Crush high score. It's also that you don't want to lose. So in this video we are going to check out some ways that you can protect your valuable data even if your mobile device is damaged lost or stolen. So how did we do this? For each type of important data on your mobile device, you want to make sure that the data is synchronized or synced with another location. When you synchronize data, you make sure that the data is the same in two or more places. How does this work? Well if a calendar appointment is only stored on your device, then you need your device with you to view the appointment, plus if you lose access to the device, you lose all the appointment details, now you have no idea what time are supposed to be meeting your friends for coffee. But if you use a calendar that syncs your data, you are all good. A calendar that signed into an online account will sync any schedule changes or new appointments to a central location in the Cloud. If you sign into the calendar on another device but using the same account, you will see the same set of appointments. As an IT support specialist, it's important that you understand what data and which apps are critical to your organization and also what's critical to the end users that you support. Most organizations will care about business data like email, calendars, and contact information. You might also have apps that manage documents, photos, videos and so on. Your challenge is to make sure that if the device is lost, you can still recover the data. The best way to do this in which you might be responsible for in your IT support role, is to make sure business-critical data is synced in at least two places. Lucky for us many mobile apps automatically sync, in some cases mobile apps already used the Cloud as their canonical data source. For example, if you sign into an account for your email and calendar apps, they will probably get all of their data from servers in the Cloud, or your organization's local IT infrastructure. If you lose your phone, you could just sign into the same account on a different device and get the exact same data. With an app like this, you won't lose any data if the device is damaged, lost or stolen. It's pretty cool, right? Some apps can be configured to every so often automatically sync or back up data to a Cloud storage service. This means that you might lose some data if you lose access to a mobile device, but the loss will be limited to the time since the last backup. Other apps might store their data only on the local device and not be able to back up their data to the Cloud, in that case you want to synchronize your data to another location in case something happens to your device. Maybe you remember from an earlier video how each app on your mobile device has a specific location where it's allowed to store data. Well IOS and Android both support backing up this app data to the Cloud. Not only will these mobile OSs backup app data but also your devices' accounts and settings, too. Want to know more about how to set up device backup to the Cloud? Then check out the supplemental reading for details.