Mobility Management in the Modern Workplace How Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security protects and streamlines the mobile enterprise
Why Enterprise Mobility + Security? With the widespread use of Software as a Service (SaaS), many businesses are moving their core technologies for identity management, device management and information protection to the cloud. Your company needs to give employees the freedom to work productively while you maintain control and oversight of the mobile environment using identity-driven security. Your mobile strategy should address access to applications, data and devices, ensuring you can safeguard resources and tools by leveraging features such as riskbased conditional access and protecting your data from user errors. Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) streamlines access, guards credentials and enhances the user experience on premises or in the cloud with powerful identitybased security capabilities. Let s take a look at the ways it protects access, defends information, detects threats and simplifies mobility management. Protect and manage access. Having access to your company s apps and data can be your employees greatest asset in working productively and efficiently, but opening the front door can also present security challenges and threats. A 2015 study found enterprises are doing a poor job of protecting their corporate- and employee-owned devices against cyberattacks.1 This gives hackers an opportunity to access user, corporate and customer data. Azure Active Directory helps protect against security threats it will immediately notify you of suspicious sign-ons. Additionally, Azure Active Directory Identity Protection uses billions of signals to provide risk-based conditional entry to applications and company data, including the option of multifactor authentication. And Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management enables you to find, control and monitor privileged identities and their access to resources. As research from Ovum has noted, more than 25% of bring your own smartphone activity that occurs is against corporate policies, and only 36% of employees who use their own smartphones for work haven t committed to any policy governing that usage.2 Microsoft EMS can automatically enroll a device and then enforce policies for accessing applications.
management helps you prevent data loss on mobile devices, allowing users to select and register devices and allowing IT to securely register and manage devices and applications. Intune also lets you oversee Office mobile applications without requiring device enrollment. Detect potential threats. Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics helps shield your business from advanced, targeted attacks by automatically analyzing and identifying normal and abnormal entity behavior. Because it constantly learns from the behaviors of users, devices and resources, this tool will intuitively adjust to reflect changes in your evolving enterprise. Defend valuable information. With clear and deep visibility into user activity and data usage, Microsoft EMS helps protect your business from user errors. Microsoft Cloud App Security allows you to manage and control applications such as Box, Salesforce and other SaaS tools while providing enterprise-grade visibility, ongoing risk detection and detailed controls. Classify, label, protect and securely share data internally and externally with Microsoft s Azure Information Protection. With this feature, you can: Classify information based on sensitivity. Automatically or manually add labels. Safeguard assets with encryption, authentication and use rights. Finally, Microsoft Intune mobile app Microsoft EMS helps you identify attackers in your organization through innovative behavioral analytics and anomaly detection technologies. These can be used on premises with Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics, as well as in the cloud with Cloud App Security and Azure Active Directory. The threat intelligence of these offerings is deepened with the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph, which is powered by immense datasets and machine learning in the cloud. Advanced Threat Analytics also detects and flags suspicious activity, alerting you when an account might be compromised. Simplify mobility management. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches and other wearables the list of devices continues to grow, and devices and applications may not always be owned or distributed
by your company. To effectively manage this new environment, IT and business executives need to understand both the range of devices in use and the device operating systems and supported applications. In developing a successful enterprise mobility program, you ll need to: Ensure users have the latest security updates on all devices. Test and distribute enterprise applications to mobile users. Implement or expand mobile app development processes. Maintain and upgrade mobile device security software. Know what information is stored on devices and if it s in compliance. Ensure the infrastructure supports your mobile technology strategy. Microsoft EMS provides the ability to significantly streamline the management of single sign-on to SaaS applications with Azure Active Directory. Its premium offering also presents an array of tools to automate, safeguard and oversee IT within your business. Additionally, Azure Active Directory ensures those within your organization can access anything they need from anywhere and makes them more productive. Why Insight for Microsoft EMS? Insight is Microsoft s largest Global Licensing Solution Provider (LSP) and has been providing Microsoft solutions for more than 25 years. We put Microsoft at the center of our end-to-end strategy to help businesses run smarter. We collaborate to deliver Intelligent Technology Solutions that meet your strategic business needs and optimize your technology investments. Microsoft Gold Partner 14 Gold competencies Microsoft Excellence in Operations Award 1,400+ consulting and service delivery professionals Top 1% of all Microsoft partners Flexible licensing options
About Insight From business and government organizations to healthcare and educational institutions, Insight empowers clients with Intelligent Technology Solutions to realize their goals. We provide the guidance and expertise needed to select, implement and manage complex technology solutions to drive business outcomes. To learn more, call 1.800.INSIGHT or visit insight.com. 1 Ponemon Institute. (May 2015). 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis. 2 Violino, B. (2015, Dec. 7). Wearables, IoT Spark Interest in Mobility Management Tools. Networkworld.com.