What is your experience with mobile device management and how can you improve it?

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is essential for organizations that need to efficiently manage, secure, and monitor mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.) used by their employees. MDM is necessary for organizations aiming to maintain security, manage devices effectively, ensure compliance, and optimize the use of mobile devices within their workforce.

While Corporate Desktop, Laptops also comes under Mobile Device Management, but I would like to stress that how important MDM is for Cell phones, tablets and personal laptops which we refer as BYOD. In today's world corporates are moving towards Cloud PCs which are much easier to manage and cost effective comparing to buying physical devices. Accessing these cloud PCs or corporate files from personal devices could pose a risk unless it is managed and that's where MDM plays a vital role to make sure the device is compliant as per the organisation's parameters to connect to their corporate resources. Also in the event of theft or misplaced device we can lock or safely remove the corporate data remotely through MDM.

MDM is increasingly important as companies embrace remote and hybrid work. It allows the assurance that a device is configured properly and securely, even when no on premises. When paired with cloud-based SaaS solutions, it can also allow for rapid recovery from a lost or stolen device by enabling zero-touch provisioning.

Totally agreed. Now a days almost 80% of offical data is stored in mobile devices and it's very essential to have back up of those specially with secured cloud services, since lot of the cases it's been oberverd while upgrading new software update data can be erased. I would recommend to store back up files specially in non erasable storage devices and secured cloud services.

Mobile devices are like your car keys, wallet, or glasses; they are easy to misplace and walk off if not physically secured. MDM that allows for remote locking and operational restriction is critical to the overall network’s security. Every mobile device is a possible security breach if there is no way to prevent operations in the wrong hands.

Throughout my military career and into DoD civilian life, the biggest challenge mobile devices bring with them is their ability to stay up to date. More importantly is that the manufacturers of mobile devices will schedule equipment for obsolescence what’re some updates actually shorten the lives of the device so users have to buy the new gear. Similar to this is the inability for military devices to be upgraded at certain points due to planned modernization. Planned obsolescence costs the DoD billions of our taxpayer dollars every year, and much of the old equipment is wasted.