What is Mobile Device Management and How can I use for my enterprise? What is Mobile Device Management and How can I use for my enterprise?

What is the benefits of using MDM?
All MDM products are built with an idea of Containerization. The MDM Container is secured using latest crypto techniques (AES-256 or more preferred). All the corporate data like email, documents, enterprise application are encrypted and processed inside the container. This ensures that corporate data is separated from user’s personal data on the device. Additionally, encryption for entire device and/or SD Card can also be enforced depending on MDM product capability.

Secure email: MDM products allow organization to integrate their existing email setup to be easily integrated with MDM environment. Almost all MDM products support easy integration with Exchange Server (2003/2007/2010), Office365, Lotus Notes, BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and others. This provided flexibility of configuring Email-over-air. Secure Docs: It is frequently seen that, employees copy attachments downloaded from corporate email to their personal devices and then misuse it. MDM can easily restrict/disable clipboard usage in/out of Secure Container; forwarding attachments to external domains can be restricted, downloading/saving attachments on SD Card. This ensures corporate data is not left insecure.

Secure browser: Using secure browser can avoid many potential security risks. Every MDM solution comes with built-in custom browser. Administrator can disable native browsers to force user to use Secure Browser, which is also inside the MDM container. URL filtering can be enforced to add additional productivity measure.

Secure app catalog: Organization can distribute, manage, and upgrade applications on employee’s device using App Catalogue. It allows applications to be pushed on user device directly from the App Store or push an enterprise developed private application through the App Catalogue. This provides an option for the organization to deploy devices in Kiosk Mode or Lock-Down Mode.

Additional MDM features

There are plenty of other features depending on which MDM product is chosen:


Policy Enforcing: There are multiple types of policies which can be enforced on MDM users.


Personal Policy: According to corporate environment, highly customizable
Device Platform specific: policies for advanced management of Android, IOS, Windows and Blackberry devices.
Compliance Policies/Rules

VPN configuration
Application Catalogue
Pre-defined Wi-Fi and Hotspot settings
Jailbreak/Root detection
Remote Wipe of corporate data
Remote Wipe of entire device
Device remote locking
Remote messaging/buzz
Disabling native apps on device


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