What Goes Into An Mms Solution

By Author: Jennifer Lewis
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As per the recent Ponemon Institute and Websense study, 76% of respondents believe that mobile devices introduce a "serious" set of risks into the enterprise. Since employees prefer bringing their own mobile devices to work and accessing the corporate data from anywhere across the world, organizations need to create a much more flexible and secure environment.

Keeping this mind, Mobility managed services also known as MMS is been designed to help reduce threats, complexities and higher costs that comes with the growing mobile platforms. However, these services are only beneficial if implemented correctly, and monitored regularly.

The following are the key components that organizations need to keep in mind when implementing an MMS strategy in order to enhance security.

1. Investigation- It is very crucial for the enterprises to screen the environment and explore the feasibility of mobility management. Once that is identified, setting up of goals is very important.

2. Assessment – Once the environment is screened, it is important to evaluate the potential of the security issues. Organization needs ...
... to be aware of the implications of BYOD and determine how these devices are to be used as per employees’ choice and enables secure access to the corporate data and applications. For example, if a device gets lost or stolen, the IT needs to take the required action to protect it with the help of remote wiping.

3. Activation – When the company is provisioning the devices, the plans for supporting the carrier activities like configurations, activations, and distribution need to be handled by the company. This does not mean that they need to do the activities themselves. They need to have a team managing the carrier and device provider, so that they can manage the users internally. The users will interact with only the internal mobility team. Also, only approved hardware should to be provisioned. Any user requests for exceptions should be approved only if proper management software is installed.

4. Administration – employee owned devices that have an access to corporate data, need to be monitored with the help of activity logs. Also, the data needs to be encrypted and password protected in order to minimize the security risks.

5. Commercials – In a large, distributed environment, it is easy to lose track of the expense leakages. In order to justify the ROI of the solution, it is important that the organization gets a handle on the economics of the operation. There should be a clear focus on finding and eliminating errors with billing and charging. If there is employee behavior that needs to be controlled, it should be called out.

6. Support – Implementation and rollout of the MMS solution itself is a milestone. However, the work is not complete. The solution can track and monitor all the devices in the current environment. However, the solution must be supported to add and update policies, devices, and to configure for any future devices that may come in the market. Continued good support is as important, if not more, as the initial rollout.

Enterprise mobility is a reality. You cannot shy away from it. The MMS strategy of an enterprise defines the future of its mobile landscape. The manageability of mobility is key to containing cost, and ensuring security. The most important factor though is that the MMS solution implemented should be future-ready, configured to be able to add any future technologies, and it should be supported long term.

The author is works with one of the leading mobility application development companies with headquarters in Dallas. The mobile app development Dallas Tx firm believes in coming up with innovative solutions that are low on app development cost and yield higher ROI. It is also established a name as reputed mobile app development Noida company after creating more than 300 apps for major OS platforms.