Mobile management and security

Gain visibility and control to enforce a mobile security strategy

 White paper: Securing mobile devices in the business environment  

Bring your own security strategy

A survey by The Aberdeen Group found that 72 percent of responding companies allowed the practice known as BYOD -- Bring Your Own Device.*

Allowing access to a vast numbers of mobile devices – even sanctioned ones -- to enterprise systems and data creates significant management and security challenges. How do you?

  • Establish and enforce access rights
  • Provision devices with patches and updates
  • Configure devices to minimize vulnerability
  • Ensure encryption of data and transactions
  • Fend off an ever-growing threat malware threats

To be effective you need to develop a mobile management and security strategy. IBM Software gives you the visibility and control to create a security strategy and ensure its enforcement. Capabilities include protecting corporate data accessed by mobile applications and users as well as defending the network utilized by mobile users.

  • Address both the business and technology issues of mobile security
  • Manage enterprise and personal data separately with capabilities such as selective wipe
  • Leverage a single infrastructure to manage all enterprise devices – smart phones, tablets, desktops, laptops and servers
  • Prevent unauthorized mobile access to enterprise mobile apps, data and services
  • Control and manage a portfolio of mobile apps from one central interface
  • Validate the security of apps through mobile app vulnerability testing

SOURCES:
* Borg, Andrew, “Mobility Becomes Core IT”, The Aberdeen Group, SAP Mobility Insights Webcast Series, Part I, March 29, 2011 (PDF, 4.43MB)

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