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Venturing Into the Arena of Business Mobility - But Not Without Your Armour By: Chirag Shivalker
Cloud computing has successfully empowered enterprises to take their businesses out of the confines of an office building.
Cloud computing has successfully empowered enterprises to take their businesses out of the confines of an office building. Powered by advanced mobility, it becomes possible to not only connect cloud based services, but also connect the points between employees, customers and partners and allow them to stay connected from anywhere and anytime.
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Without doubt, enhanced connectivity means higher productivity, however it also has other implications, as it also means higher exposure to risks. Organizations hence, have to stay geared up in arms and armor to fight back any potential security threats. As organizations venture into the arena of business mobility, along with the on premise security measures, they now also have to enforce off the premise security measures – to target the moving devices - as well. In addition to security threats from moving devices and BYOD, other major threats are the malicious elements (people) in organizations. Today mobile phones have become so advanced that it is extremely easy to click high resolution photographs and convert them into PDF and hence steal crucial data. Sharing this data across devices is easy, as private networks do not come under the radar or inside the boundaries of corporate firewalls. All these factors pose grave challenges to overcome. In the recent years, there are three approaches that have emerged as highly popular while ensuring advanced security for enterprise mobility management. These approaches include:
Mobile Device Management (MDM): This approach enables an enterprise gain control and secures the whole device. This includes complete control over the network access, download and usage of applications, downloaded data monitoring and control over data that is downloaded stored and sent via the moving device. This type of security is complete and enables the security cell to remotely lock or wipe the device clean in case of theft of device or security violations.
Mobile Application Management (MAM): This approach is application based, and focuses on securing specific applications over mobile devices. It enables control and management of enterprise apps separately from the personal apps.
Mobile Content Management (MCM): This approach authenticates a mobile device and allows it to access the central repository via an internally developed application. This content repository is also walled and secured. Multi factor log in authentication is also applied where permission has to be granted only for specific data access. This approach is a secure alternative to data access and sharing via emails and on public clouds. MDM is highly secure, however giving the enterprise complete control over devices, especially in as scenario where BYOD is encouraged, is restrictive. This makes MAM the most preferred and commonly used approach across enterprises. MCM is also a good approach, but here you have to be absolutely sure that your employees to whom you provide access to sensitive data use it only for the benefit and in good will for your enterprise. Eventually, your choice of approach depends on your organizations individual needs and preferences.
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About the Author: Chirag Shivalker is one of the very few business writers with flair of social commentary through his technical writing. With A decade long experience in technology writing and trend analysis Chirag is an expert in technology and technological trends along with business writing. Technology in mind and words at will Chirag is an all-rounder who has established his writing capabilities’ in multiple technology disciplines.
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