In the last couple of months, there has been an immeasurable growth in the mobile market’s use of smartphones and tablets. The slew of features vendors offer has made these devices pervasive in the corporate environment. Which mobile phone operating system has invaded your corporate sphere? Is it an iOS Phone, an Android phone, a Windows Mobile 7, or a BlackBerry? Is it all of them or two or more device operating systems? If so, has your organization embraced a Mobile Device Management solution?
What does an MDM solution deliver?
As new mobile platforms keep emerging, supporting and managing them has become arduous. Mobile Device Management is no longer a ‘nice to have tool’; it has become necessary. Some common features expected from an MDM platform are a single and centralized console for managing different types of mobile endpoints and supporting corporate and employee devices. The ability to collect inventory and security compliance data from the mobile endpoints and then provide reports. The enforcement of basic device security policies like Password, Encryption, Restrictions, and execution of remote actions like approving, blocking, Wipe on the device
Why should you embrace MDM from the cloud?
An in-house MDM solution requires both operational and infrastructure investment. Furthermore, workforce and resources must be allocated upfront to set up the servers and network and train the staff on the new MDM platform for managing the devices. An MDM solution from the cloud allows you to skip this dilatory procedure by using the infrastructure and management solution hosted in the cloud.
This fosters simple and quick customer onboarding processes and eliminates the need for additional hardware and staff investment. It accelerates the implementation and increases user productivity by increasing reliability, scalability, and security. A cloud-based solution also allows IT administrators to manage these devices from anywhere in a secure manner from a single window.
However, once a mobile device becomes active, some of the common IT concerns are:
How secure is the mobile data in the cloud?
Can I track a mobile device once it gets lost? Is there enough visibility of these mobile endpoints in the cloud? Thus, the MDM solution must enable secured mobile computing by enforcing appropriate policies and remediation actions to prevent data leakages, malicious attacks, and data vulnerabilities.
Cloud-based MDM Solution Deliverables
Some of the key deliverables of a cloud-based MDM solution are:
It provides device diversity, a centralized console, scalability, robustness, granular data collection, and interactive support. It yields simple onboarding, business agility, an increase in ROI, and no infrastructure expenditures. Allows desktop management and asset management for mobile devices from a single window in the cloud. Achieves and maintains data privacy requirements for different regulatory bodies (e.g., HIPAA compliance). Allows seamless incorporation of the continuous stream of platform updates into MaaS360 every week. Enforces policies on mobile devices to specify device restriction
Feature restriction and define Mailbox settings. Execution of remediation actions to prevent data leakages, malicious attacks, and data vulnerabilities. Perform device quarantine or enforce wipe command to avoid data leakages on the mobile endpoints in the cloud. Adopt Mobile Device Management from the cloud! Manage and secure your mobile devices simply and efficiently from a single window anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
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For a quick overview of the MDM glossary, refer to http://links.maas360.com/mdm_glossary. Pragati Chaplot Jain is a technical writer at MaaS360 By Fiberlink. Fiberlink is the developer of MaaS360, the leading cloud-based mobile device visibility and management platform. To learn more or take a test ride of the MaaS360 MDM solution, navigate to http://links.maas360.com/MaaS360-MDM.
