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| “An effective enterprise mobility strategy is focused on the user, from day 1 through to that employee leaving. Upon enrolment, specific securities policies can be set through a user friendly management portal” | 
Triangle Valerie Heatley, enterprise mobility specialist |
Accommodating employee owned devices is fundamentally based around the management of the device and OS ecosystem in a secure fashion while not prohibiting productivity, and ensuring employee privacy is not restricted as company IP is protected. With all these considerations, it’s not surprising that companies need direction. As much as IT departments are predicting future user needs and educating them on the possible, so must they be educated themselves.When looking at enterprise mobility most organisations are encountering a number of different issues as the enterprise incorporates new SaaS applications and mobile devices into business process. Password management, legacy application mobile availability and IT resource drain — to name but a few. Triangle are helping organisations overcome this with employee self-management portals. This involves a corporate ‘app store’ with single-sign on functionality. Without IT involvement, employees are empowered to download applications which they have permission to access, onto any enrolled device and they will be automatically signed in. They do not actually hold specific login credentials per application, which adds an extra layer of security for the organisation.
An effective enterprise mobility strategy is focused on the user, from day 1 through to that employee leaving. Upon enrolment, specific securities policies can be set through a user friendly management portal. That employee has access to all the applications and documentation they need to be productive immediately. Throughout their time there, they are bound to security policies (eg. passcode on the device) which will automatically action restrictions without IT intervention. When that employee decides to leave, data on that device can be quickly wiped and access to corporate applications and data revoked. These policies will be tailored to corporate owned or BYOD devices, which is invaluable with the employee privacy versus IP security debate. The answer we’re seeing to BYOD is the container, which places a wrapped folder on the employee owned device. This holds all corporate data in a secure manner while separating it from any personal apps and data. Suddenly the container can be viewed, in IT management terms, the same as a corporate device. This same idea can be applied to corporate documentation, those which need to be up-to-date – health and safety policies, sales presentations, board papers, contracts and so on. With content lockers, companies can securely push corporate documents onto a container on the phone, where they will always have the latest version. Again, access can be restricted or revoked at anytime, meaning this can be on corporate owned or BYOD devices. There are also a host of productivity add-ons to facilitate mobile collaboration. Answering the question of how to accommodate the new world, starts with discovering what needs to be achieved. Mobile being such a growing industry, and user driven space there is hundreds of different use cases and applications. At Triangle we’ve seen a lot of them, we’ve been on this journey since day 1. We’re plotting your business processes and identifying the most appropriate technology to suit the organisation and user’s specific needs.
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| “MDM enhances the user experience on BYO or corporate devices without compromising security. It ensures end-to-end security and compliance across device platforms, including rooting and jailbreak detection, pre-enrolment device checks, geo-fencing and tracking, context-aware policies, app blacklist/whitelist and full or selective wipe of devices” | 
Zinopy Aidan McEvoy, sales director |
| As Ireland’s only Citrix Specialist Platinum Partner, and the largest provider of Citrix Services in the country from over 15 years, it should come as no surprise that Zinopy choose to harness the power of Citrix XenMobile to deliver best in class mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM) and mobile content management (MCM) for our Customers.The rationale for this choice is based on value propositions that positively differentiates Citrix XenMobile to deliver a secure, effective and easy to administer, and even easier to use, Service to Customers.
XenMobile – Mobile Device Management (MDM) enhances the user experience on BYO or corporate devices without compromising security. It ensures end-to-end security and compliance across device platforms, including rooting and jailbreak detection, pre-enrolment device checks, geo-fencing and tracking, context-aware policies, app blacklist/whitelist and full or selective wipe of devices. It can also Initiate automated compliance actions when devices deviate from policy. XenMobile – Mobile Application Management (MAM) has single click access to any app including mobile, Windows desktop, SaaS and web. It is recognised by independent industry experts such as Gartner and Forrester as having the most complete set of integrated, business optimised productivity applications including email, browser, calendar, contacts, document editing, note-taking and remote desktop access. XenMobile – Mobile Content Management (MCM) is delivered using Citrix market-leading file sync and sharing product – ShareFile. ShareFile not only safeguards data, but delivers a seamless consumer like experience to users, with the ability to deliver the Service as a Cloud or as an On-Premise solution. It operates on FIPS AES 256 secure containerisation and app wrapping for mobile application and content management to separate mobile enterprise apps and data from personal apps. XenMobile is named leader in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites. Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and XenMobile can be consumed in one license as Citrix WorkSpace Suite and is recognised as being the market leading secure application delivery, optimisation and scalability solution when combined with Citrix Netscaler. Zinopy believes XenMobile helps customers get value at every stage of their mobility journey through one integrated, comprehensive Enterprise Mobility Management solution. |
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| “Using appropriate BYOD tools will allow organisations to separate corporate and personal data on devices and also configure policies to prevent data collection from personal email, content or applications on employee owned devices” | 
Asystec Carrie Morris, VMware account manager |
| When it comes to accessing corporate data, organisations have to decide on what access model they want to adopt, ranging from only being able to access data on company provided equipment on the corporate network (Zero Tolerance Model) to allowing employees use their personal devices from remote locations.Due to the evolution of IT, companies have had to evolve from the zero tolerance model which was seen to be the most effective approach as it allows organisations control over the security and access employees have on their devices. However due to the proliferation of mobile devices and the changes in work practices we have to enable employees to access corporate data from one of their many personal devices — be that laptop, tablet or mobile phone.
Having a robust but flexible access strategy in place provides your employees the flexibility to do their work from multiple access points while also ensuring tight security & management and ultimately increasing productivity. Using appropriate BYOD tools will allow organisations to separate corporate and personal data on devices and also configure policies to prevent data collection from personal email, content or applications on employee owned devices. There are some excellent products in the market that allow companies containerise applications to ensure they have control over what they need and the user has the privacy they require. Airwatch from VMware is an excellent example of a mobile device management platform that can compartmentalise and manage enterprise applications and data without having to manage the entire device. IT Administrators can remove internal apps and corporate content from devices upon end user departure and if a device has been compromised a remote wipe can take place. Tools like this allow IT to safeguard data and provide the level of control required in the landscape of increasing threats without being a blocker to the ever increasing mobile workforce. Asystec have a specialised VMware team that can help you implement an enterprise mobile strategy.
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