Security "Bits"

When organizations adopt cloud and allow employees to work from mobile devices, they need to begin securing their data in new ways. As corporate information flows to different types of endpoints, different types of tools are needed in order to protect it. It is time for the modern enterprise to evolve and make use of separate security solutions for managed and unmanaged devices – the two can no longer be treated in the same fashion. 

In a major victory for privacy advocates, Europe's Court of Human Rights has ruled on organizations' abilities to monitor employee communications with limited consent. While precedent set in 2016 gave employers blanket ability to monitor traffic "to verify that the employees are completing their professional tasks during working hours", the new decision means employers across Europe will have to significantly curtail their data collection initiatives.

Above and below are just a small sample of some of the most recent and helpful reviews on two of the top Mobile Device Management (MDM) vendors in the market (go ahead and look up reviews on the iOS App Store or Google Play store). Why should employees have to suffer  just to be able to access their corporate email and get work done on their mobile devices? Either employees begrudgingly use the applications and are less efficient or they opt out altogether, disconnecting themselves from work and contact.

For those of you that follow the latest trends in BYOD Security and Mobility, you probably already know that Mobile Device Management (MDM) is sooooo last year, with vendors (and their customers) rushing to supplant MDM with the latest approach to solving all of your mobility woes, Mobile Application Management (MAM).  A question I have been pondering recently is whether MAM is dead before it really starts to take hold in the market?