The Business Benefits of Mobile Device Management from Microsoft
A truly effective security strategy for your business must be multi-layered and comprehensive, covering every possible threat vector, including your endpoint devices. But how can you manage and secure these devices effectively? The answer lies in Mobile Device Management (MDM).
Mobile Device Management is all about overseeing and securing devices like smartphones, laptops, and tablets. MDM ensures that your devices are properly managed from implementation to operation and maintenance, helping to safeguard your business data and resources.
What Are the Benefits of Mobile Device Management?
One of the key advantages of MDM is its ability to significantly reduce your business’s overall risk. With MDM, you can maintain a unified view of all the devices within your network and control their configuration and security settings. By applying data segregation, securing emails and documents, and enforcing corporate policies, you can ensure that your company’s sensitive information is well protected.
MDM solutions allow your organisation to ensure that only authorised users and devices can access critical business data. Moreover, employees can confidently access corporate resources from their personal devices, knowing that their device meets your business’s stringent security requirements.
Which Solutions Should You Use for Mobile Device Management?
Microsoft offers a suite of solutions specifically designed for MDM, each one enhancing the security of your entire network.
Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service that provides both Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM). Intune allows you to tailor device management to meet your specific business needs. For company-owned devices, users and devices can be enrolled in Intune, ensuring they automatically receive your security settings via configured policies. This gives you complete control over device settings, features, and security.
For businesses with a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy, Intune offers flexibility. Employees can choose to enrol their devices for full access to corporate resources, or they can apply application protection policies that require multi-factor authentication (MFA) to use business apps like Microsoft Teams.
One of the standout features of Microsoft’s MDM solution is the seamless integration between Intune, Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft Defender for Business, providing your devices with the strongest defence available.
Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory Conditional Access enhances security by allowing access to certain resources only after specific actions have been completed. When combined with Intune, it helps businesses establish a Zero Trust security model. This integration ensures that only devices managed through Microsoft’s MDM solutions can connect to your company’s servers, securing access to your resources and data. You retain full control and visibility over which devices connect to your environment, ensuring only compliant devices can access critical tools like email, SharePoint, and other applications.
Microsoft Defender for Business
Intune also integrates with Microsoft Defender for Business to prevent security breaches on mobile devices and minimize the impact of potential threats. Microsoft Defender for Business is a next-generation endpoint protection solution that fortifies your network’s security perimeter. It’s compatible across Windows, iOS, macOS, and Android, and uses advanced antivirus and endpoint detection and response capabilities to protect all your devices from sophisticated cyber threats.
Reap the Benefits of Mobile Device Management
The benefits of Mobile Device Management are extensive, empowering your business to maintain visibility and control over your endpoints—and, by extension, your entire security perimeter. To learn more about how Microsoft solutions can help you implement MDM across your business, download our comprehensive Microsoft Security eBook today.