Mobile devices play an essential role in the fast-paced digital landscape of today.. These mobile phones are also equally important in businesses as they are required for communication through emails and video conferencing and also for accessing or storing important data. With the increasing reliance on mobile phones businesses often face the challenge of protecting sensitive data from cyberattacks and threats. This problem can easily be overcome with the help of MDM solutions that ensure effective mobility management.
Through mobility management, you can set up certain strategies and tools that your business can efficiently use to monitor and manage the mobile devices within your organization.
This way you could ensure that your employees BYODs (Bring your own devices) as well as the company-issued devices are secure, and capable of performing the intended functions safely.
Key Strategies for Securing Mobile Endpoints with Mobility Management
Here are some of the strategies that play an important role in securing mobile endpoints with the help of mobility management.
1. Mobile Device Management Solutions (MDM)
These solutions are a foundational element of mobility management. MDM solutions help enable IT administration in overseeing the entire working and journey of a mobile that is part of the organization, from the time it was issued to the time of retirement. MDM is a great solution in allowing businesses to remotely configure their devices and ensure that they are complying with security policies as well as enforcing control over applications and their data.
The key features of MDM solutions include remote wipe, encryption enforcement and app control. With these features in place the IT administrators can remotely wipe data from a stolen device to protect sensitive information as well as control apps that are downloaded on the employees mobile phones to prevent any malicious software from downloading and compromising security. Lastly the encryption ensures that not only the data is protected but also secure from any potential hackers gaining access to it.
2. Mobile Application Management (MAM)
Mobile Application Management (MAM) aims to the manamegemnt of individual apps in a mobile phone unlike MDM. This is a great way for businesses to precisely manage and control mobile apps and assist in secure data transfer and sharing within the organization.
Some of the key features of MAM are blacklisting apps, encryption at an app level and containing data separately within a mobile phone. MAM makes sure that there is a defined list of apps that can be installed in the phone to prevent any data breach in the form of harmful apps being downloaded. Further data containerization refers to isolating personal and corporate data to ensure that the sensitive business information remains safe in an employee’s phone. AFinally with the help of app encryption your business can benefit as only authorized users can access certain apps, so that the specific data cannot fall into the wrong hands. This would ensure that your employees caneasily work and access corporate files on their private mobile phones on the go without having to worry about data breaches.
3. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Another integral part in mobility management that businesses should ensure is multi-factor authentication. This enhances the mobiles security as MFA adds an additional layer of security. This requires users to provide two or more steps verification before they can access the organizations sensitive data. This may include a step involving entering a password (varies for every employee) to further needing a fingerprint scan or an OTP (One time password). Although this process takes longer and is likely to make it more difficult for employees to access the data, it does, however, ensure that the data remains protected and out of reach for unauthorized users.
MFA would ensure that even if one of your employees phone is at risk of data breach, the hacker will not be able to access the critical data easily without the additional factors.
Conclusion
It is no longer just an option to secure data being shared on the mobile phones within a business organization, rather it is a need. It is highly necessary for businesses to implement mobility management in the form of MDM,MAM and MFA’s to ensure that their data remains secure and compliant with security policies. Mobility management strategies allow your workforce to operate securely with a minimized risk of cyberattacks.