Regardless of what types of devices your employees and contractors use and who provides them, an effective mobile device management policy has become a “must have” for organizations today.

MDM, he said, is essential in BYOD-enabled environments, where organizations often lack the in-house expertise to manage such a broad range of operating systems and devices.

Without MDM, administrators fear that they have no visibility into what devices are accessing their critical data and work applications. This vicious cycle stalls BYOD security programs, while ...

In Fixmo’s eyes, pure mobile device management solutions aren’t always enough to make for a fully secure, uncompromised BYOD environment. That’s why the Toronto, Ontario-based company ...

Periodic audits also help you evaluate the effectiveness of BYOD policies and MDM solutions. Penetration testing, which simulates potential attacks, is very useful in finding hidden weaknesses.

As more companies adopt BYOD, I expect to see more MDM partnerships and M&A activity. This should make for an interesting 2013. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER ...

How Nonprofits Can Establish a BYOD Policy To reduce these risks, nonprofits should establish formal BYOD policies between the organization, staff and volunteers. These agreements dictate how users ...

The industry is still in the early days of BYOD and many companies have looked to mobile device management (MDM) solutions to help enterprises handle the influx of consumer devices.

The rush to accommodate BYOD created a substantial market for mobile device management (MDM) vendors. Most are still fairly small, but the major infrastructure players now view MDM and its ...

At Interop this week, Avaya will toss its hat into the rapidly expanding BYOD ring with new software for its policy manager that helps IT get a handle on mobile device management (MDM). The Avaya ...

“IT is still challenged by BYOD and MDM,” Gartner analyst Phillip Redman told Computerworld. “They don’t see any clear way to do that.