WASHINGTON: Microsoft has launched Mobile Device Management (MDM) products for the easiness of its users. Mobile devices are essentially mandatory tools into today’s business world of fast-moving, data-driven end users.
While smartphones and tablets provide employees with the flexibility to perform their jobs with elasticity and without borders, they engender major concerns regarding data security and privacy risks for organizations. Enter mobile device management (MDM) products, which allow people to perform their jobs efficiently and effectively while assisting IT in protecting company data and securing mobile devices from malicious access.
Office 365 MDM has three main uses. The most common one is Conditional Access, which lets administrators dictate which files can be accessed by which users and devices. MDM requires users, in this case, employees, to enroll their device and ask for approval before they can use it to access corporate email and documents. On the administrator side, bestowing access is made on a per-user basis so that a user can have the same access level on any authorized device he or she owns.
Device Management lets admins set and require per-device PIN codes in order to enhance security. This feature also includes Jailbreak Detection to alert administrators if a device is jailbroken or rooted, which can be used to gain unauthorized access to sensitive files stored on the Office 365 account. Device Management also allows admin to monitor device that try to gain access to files.
Finally, Selective Wipe gives businesses a tool to secure their data when things don’t go as planned, either because of loss of a device or when an employee leaves the company. The feature lets admins erase company files on such a device while retaining personal data stored by the user.
