MDM for Android devices: What your business needs to know (Part One)

Thanks to mobile device management (MDM), you can gain granular control over employees' Android devices to ensure those phones and tablets don't become your network's Achilles' heel.

You can migrate from one smartphone to another without having to do much heavy lifting. With the Android platform, the most challenging thing you need to do is authenticate your new device against your Google account so everything will transfer.
Now imagine that one device turning into 10, 20, 100, or even 1,000. Things start to get far more complex at those numbers. How could you possibly manage 1,000 devices? Believe it or not, people do it. How? With the help of mobile device management (MDM).

What is MDM?
​MDM is an industry term associated with the management of mobile devices (most often it is applied to large-scale management) and involves a third-party solution that serves as the centralized management console for the devices. With these third-party solutions you are able to handle tasks that include:

• distributing applications;
• locking or wiping a single device;
• sending software updates;
• remotely troubleshooting a device;
• pushing out settings and content;
• enforcing policy compliance across platforms;
• managing device lifecycles;
• detecting jailbroken or rooted devices;
• encrypting sensitive data;
• monitoring usage; and
• containerization.

In Part Two of this Series, we will cover Why MDM is Essential to your organization. Click the link below to see our DroidLock MDM Solution.

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