“Juniper (JNPR) is kicking off an initiative that combines upgrades to its Junos Pulse remote access and network access control (NAC) solutions with new alliances with MDM enterprise providers AirWatch and MobileIron.
The idea, Juniper said, is to enable enterprises and service providers to simplify and better secure their BYOD blueprints by levering the Junos Pulse Secure Access Service and Junos Pulse Access Control Service solutions with providers of MDM and other mobile security platforms. AirWatch and MobileIron are the first Juniper partners in the initiative and others are invited to participate.”
“You’ve done all the right things to secure your employees’ mobile devices: you’ve implemented mobile device management for basic device security and features such as remote find, lock and wipe; you’ve implemented a mobile policy, but to make mobile devices most useful to your staff they need applications. So how do you do that securely and efficiently?
Simply relying on the public app stores is probably not the best option. Apple’s iTunes store only supports apps for iOS devices and chances are some of your staff will want to bring other devices such as Android, Windows and possibly BlackBerry. The main Android app Store, Google Play Store, is not managed as tightly as Apple’s app store and has been known to host many malware-bearing apps, despite Google’s attempts to weed these out. Other less regulated Android app stores are definitely the domain of hackers and malware authors, so should definitely be avoided.”
“It’s the rare RFP for mobile device management that does not list a requirement for software to offer the ability to blacklist and whitelist applications, says Jonathan Dale, director of marketing for Fiberlink, a provider of mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM) solutions.
So it was a “big surprise,” he says, when an examination of its customers’ policies found that only about 5 percent of them whitelist and blacklist apps on Android devices. The number rises to 10 percent for companies doing so for iOS devices.
Among companies with such policies, they blacklist 16 apps on average and whitelist five apps for iOS devices. For Android devices, it’s an average of 10 whitelisted apps and seven blacklisted ones.”
“Now, here’s how Apple has defined the “Open in Management” feature – “Protect corporate data by controlling which apps and accounts are used to open documents and attachments. Managed open in gives IT the ability to configure the list of apps available in the sharing panel. This keeps work documents in corporate apps and also prevents personal documents from being opened in managed apps.”
This is a very good start in isolating business from personal. However, keeping with the reality that “there’s more than meets the eye”, here’s the whole scoop. This feature, without any support from any Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution, is not going to get what you think it would. Why do I say that?”
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