Mobile Device Management

In today's world, when the focus is increasingly on the topic of location-independent working, mobile device management (MDM) is of central importance.

Massive purchases of devices, especially laptops, smartphones and notebooks, have given IT departments a new range of tasks with mobile device management, which also means new ones IT vulnerabilities offers.

Reasons for mobile device management

Employees sometimes use a wide variety of devices for their work, including private devices. Almost every adult has a mobile device and uses it for work. For example, it is particularly practical as an employee to send the boss a photo of the construction site directly or to show new interested parties an exciting presentation on the tablet.

The Privacy and application protection must become an important issue once corporate data is stored on a device. Heterogeneous device landscapes or the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concept can be managed and checked more securely through mobile device management.

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Main tasks of mobile device management

The main tasks of mobile device management are the protection of data on mobile devices and secure integration into the company's own network.

Regardless of the use of the different devices, the distinction and configuration of business and partly private data and devices is the essential part of the mobile device management solution.

The main functionalities of mobile device management are:

Distribution and application of policies

Update and patch distribution of operating systems and software

Provision of corporate applications (email, data and configurations)

Inventory of hardware and software

Location of end devices

Distribution of access rights

Remote administration of the devices (commissioning up to blocking or remote deletion)

Automatic backup of company data

Logging of all important or sensitive applications and functions

The challenges facing mobile device management are complex. Therefore, the integration of a wide variety of common operating systems (iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, macOS) and security functions, such as device encryption, password protection and configuration of endpoint protection, should generally be standard.

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Compliance and regulations in mobile device management

The use and usage of mobile devices must be applied consistently throughout the company and therefore compliance rules should be established in advance. This is the only way to prevent misuse and incorrect handling.

As an example of this, many companies technically limit the device camera through mobile device management for smartphones. The reason for this are sensitive areas that are not allowed to be photographed in the company.

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