Mobile device management

MDM is a piece of software that monitors all your mobile devices, allowing us to deploy secure smartphones, tablets, desktops, and laptops.

MDM optimizes and automates the functionality and security of your devices throughout the enterprise in and out of the corporate network. We can control things such as allowing applications to be distributed where data is stored, how the device is configured, which patches to install, and how to handle the device that's been compromised. How about just shoot it, put it out of its misery?

MDMs work with frameworks and each device manufacturer has a framework that injects into the MDM. MDM usually has policies or features that mobile device administrators can control or enforce on these devices.

The combination of these policies and features forms the framework. Android, Blackberry, and Apple provide MDM frameworks to allow administrators and MDM vendors to simply link to their devices.

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