Apple Secures Enterprises with iOS MDM

Today on Tom’s IT Pro:  iOS Mobile Device Management Secures and Unification: Einstein and Jobs Got It Right, But...

Thanks to its popularity in the consumer realm, the iPhone has found its way into the enterprise. To help it and the iPad (and to a lesser extent the iPod touch) into the hands of businesses, Apple's rolled out a number of mobile device management (MDM) enhancements to the iOS over the last couple of years.

In her latest article for Tom's IT Pro, Lisa Phifer—an expert on the business use of emerging network and security technologies—details how iOS MDM supports common enterprise security requirements. These features range from native over-the-air management to self-service enrollment and transparent provisioning to compliance audits, real-time threat mitigation and more.

The article is the most recent in Lisa's series on MDM and security. In part one, Effectively Securing Mobile Devices, she outlined how multi-platform mobile device managers can help IT pros efficiently and safely enable business use of employee-purchased iPhones, iPads and Androids. Additional articles so far in the series include Managing Android Tablets, Smartphones and Android Security: Worry, But Don't Panic, Yet.

In his latest opinion piece, Barry Gerber, Editorial Director for Bestofmedia USA (publisher of Tom’s IT Pro), speaks to the inspiring examples of Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs in a bid to caution those aiming to follow in those geniuses footsteps. As Barry writes, both "built their careers on revolutionary unifying concepts that sought to simplify the world they lived in."  However, there's much more to their accomplishments than unification for the sake of, well, unification.

Technology companies need to remember that Jobs and Einstein were equally devoted to personal freedom, perfection and independent thinking. Without an understanding and knowledge of the full picture, the unifying trend of today's technology companies cannot deliver on the promise of unification to deliver better and easier livers to end users, both business and consumer. In fact, it could do more harm than good. 

Check out Barry's article: Unification: Einstein and Jobs Got It Right, But...

James Alan Miller is Managing Editor of Tom's IT Pro. He is a veteran technology journalist with over seventeen years of experience creating and developing magazine and online content. Founding editor of numerous business and enterprise computing sites at the internet.com network, James headed up the After Hours section at PC Magazine, as well as hardware and software sections of various Windows publications.