Chapter 3
Planning for Mobile Devices in the Enterprise
In This Chapter
Protecting mobile devices from malware
Remotely managing mobile device policies
Enabling application access to mobile users
Adapting your corporate policy for mobile devices
Most corporate mobility policies allow for employee usage of one, or maybe two, approved devices for corporate use. Recent increases in the choices of mobile devices, and their increasing popularity, present challenges with today’s mobility policies.
Enterprises that are used to issuing corporate-approved assets like laptop PCs are tempted to account for smartphones in the same manner, by issuing corporate-approved tablet computers and smartphones. The challenge therein is to qualify and approve these kinds of devices as quickly as they appear in the market.
Other enterprises look to migrate to a “bring-your-own-device” model, where they allow employees to bring their own devices to work, as long as the enterprise policies can be reliably deployed and enforced on these devices.
Such challenges require revisiting your existing corporate ...
