As user privacy and MDM become more incompatible – the new guide to BYOD vs company devices

Since the release of the first smartphone in 2007, smart devices have changed the way we communicate, live, work and do business. While greater connectivity has productivity and communication benefits, it also presents new challenges, mostly around how businesses can best manage a fleet of remote devices, and which mobile device management (MDM) solution to choose based on their remote device fleet choice.

29 October 2019 | BYOD

Jamf boasts of record growth in 2017 – but Mac insight intriguing for enterprise

Jamf, an Apple-centric enterprise management software provider, has announced record growth for 2017 with the company growing revenue by 30% and recurring revenue going up 40% year-over-year.

The company claims it is adding on average almost 100 customers a week, including 17 of the 25 largest Fortune 500 companies, 10 out of the top 11 children’s hospitals, and 6,000 K-12 and higher education schools. Jamf hired 162 new employees and grew its international employee base by more...

25 January 2018 | Enterprise Mobility

The opportunities for wearables to enhance enterprise workflows

Constantly transforming digital business processes offer new opportunities to adopt upcoming technologies. Wearables have the potential to transform business processes and next-generation mobile strategies; however, businesses are still struggling to understand how they can fully help.

According to Gartner, by 2020 more than 60% of organisations will be using wearables to transform their business processes. This is clearly reflected in the small but growing number of early-adopting...

2 January 2018 | Enterprise Mobility

Jamf working with Simplifeye for wearable healthcare data security

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Simplifeye, a company based in New York, has announced it is working with Apple device management provider Jamf to help mitigate the security of patient information on wearable devices.

The startup provides what it calls a ‘next generation cloud system’ which syncs with existing patient management software. Healthcare teams can see medical records on any device – in this instance, an Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad.

Jamf, a founder...

24 August 2017 | Enterprise Mobility

Bitglass unveils new agentless mobile security patent, takes aim at MDM

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Enterprise data security provider Bitglass has secured a new patent around agentless mobile security, the company has announced.

The patent, US #9,553,867, available to view here (registration required), enables Bitglass to synchronise a lost, stolen or deprovisioned device with a null mail or calendar account. In other words, it represents an operation where no agent – a service, daemon or process – needs to run in the background of a...

26 January 2017 | Cloud

Healthcare becoming more mobile but one in four firms concerned over MDM

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More than a quarter of healthcare organisations are less than confident in their chosen mobile device management (MDM) in batting away security attacks, according to a new report from Jamf.

The study, which was conducted by analyst firm Vanson Bourne, found a refreshingly high number of healthcare firms going in with mobility at the outset; 83% say they currently provide mobile devices to caregiving staff. Yet the same number cited security as the...

23 January 2017 | Enterprise Mobility

Samsung acquires Tachyon for ‘last mile’ of mobile configuration

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Samsung has announced the acquisition of Tachyon, an enterprise mobile device configuration and development software provider, to assist with the “last mile” of configuration for Samsung’s enterprise mobile customers.

Washington-based Tachyon, a spinoff of Kaprica Security, helps with the deployment of Samsung Android smartphones and tablets in organisations, automating device configuration and reducing the time of rollouts....

27 October 2016 | Enterprise Mobility

“There aren’t any instructions in place on BYOD here…the employer is cool with it”

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More than half of respondents in a survey from anti-virus security provider Trustlook say they have never received company instructions for using a personal device at work, while more than three quarters are not familiar with their company’s MDM solution.

The study, which aimed to examine BYOD trends and best practices and polled 320 Trustlook mobile security users, also found that only 39% of companies surveyed have a formal BYOD policy in...

20 October 2016 | BYOD

The MDM privacy dilemma: How millennial habits are reshaping BYOD policies

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Millennials are a generation whose expectations of workplace communication and productivity set them apart from – and often come in direct conflict with – previous generations. Deeply reliant on the latest smartphones and tablets, millennials have been integral in driving bring your own device (BYOD) programs that allow access to corporate data from personal devices. But while the BYOD phenomenon has accelerated productivity and led to greater...

7 July 2016 | Employee Education

Bitglass warms of ‘MDM mayhem’ in latest research

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Cloud access security provider Bitglass has warned of ‘MDM mayhem’ in the results of its latest study which argues mobile device management (MDM) software contains major privacy issues for users.

The report got volunteers to test unnamed MDM products for a week, and through routing mobile traffic through a corporate proxy, normally used in MDM to inspect traffic for malware, found a number of alarming findings, from being able to see...

24 June 2016 | Enterprise Mobility