Question

First World Bank Savings and Loan has decided to deploy a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy to allow its employees to use their personal smartphones to access the Bank's data instead of using smartphones provided by the company. The information technology (IT) department needs to manage the mobile operating system on BYOD devices to protect the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. You have been tasked by the Bank's CIO to report on third-party Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions, and to make a specific recommendation for the Bank to deploy.

Write 3-4 pages that do the following:

Identifies and describes three of the most important MDM systems features that meet the bank's need for extremely high security.

Compare the feature sets of three commercial MDM solutions, including at least one cloud-based solution, and make a specific MDM solution recommendation for the bank to deploy.

Describe the functional relationship between your recommended MDM solution and a smart phone (your choice) native operating system.

Answer 1

1. The Mobile device management(MDM) is used mainly in many small and large scale organizations where the employers are allowed to bring their own mobile phones, laptops and tablets.
2. The BYOD is used as strategy which is used by the company’s to make their employees to use their personal gadgets.
3. Various companies are providing the solutions for BYOD which can be in term used for mobile device management.
4. The companies like IBM,CISCO,VMWARE are the three companies which are being selected for using the MDM.
5. Now let us discuss the feature of these three companies MDM services.

IBM Maas360

1. It supports multiple operating system in mobile devices like Android,Mac os,IOS,windows.
2. It also supports the IOT devices also it provides enough security to these devices.
3. It provides a secure container where the content can be stored.

CISCO-Meraki

1. It also supports the various mobile operating systems like mac-OS,IOS,Android and windows.
2. Once the device is connected automatically, the network policies are applied to the devices.
3. It provides detection of devices automatically.
4. It provides the network activity graph.

Vmware-Airwatch

1. It helps in using the software not only in the office but also remotely.
2. It provides security through the data loss prevention and device security.
3. It provides security in the form of copy paste prevention.
4. It provides security by placing the passwords to the devices.

The main differences between these MDM service providers is that all provide the security to various operating systems.

CISCO provides the security once the device starts using the network where as airwatch provides security through data loss prevention and device security.

I would like to suggest the Vmware-Airwatch for the BYOD and can be used as the MDM software because it helps to monitor the devices not only in the office but also in the remote areas.