The realities of BY OD create significant challenges when it comes to securing the corporate data residing on your users' mobile devices. Mobile users want to use the latest technology with easy access to their apps and data. Regardless of the OS, make and model of their mobile devices, they want an easy transition between their personal mobile lives and their corporate mobile lives. With corporate apps and personal apps co-existing on their devices, how do you make sure there's no unapproved mingling of corporate data between those apps? How do you keep that corporate app data secure?
While Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a critical component of a mobile security strategy, it's not sufficient when it comes to securing app data. Analysts agree that to secure corporate app data on your users' mobile devices, you need to employ a Mobile Application Management (MAM) strategy. MAM is all about creating secure divisions bet ween mobile users' personal apps and corporate apps. It encompasses the development, deployment, and management of mobile apps in a secure manner.
A central aspect of a MAM strategy is creating distinct lines of separation on users' mobile devices bet ween their personal apps and corporate apps. This has come to be known as containerization, the securing of corporate app s and their associated data within digital containers that govern app behavior and prevent unwanted interaction with personal apps.
With the rising number of container offerings, it can be difficult to understand the differences between the various solutions and figure out which one might best address your needs. Depending on who you talk to, a container could be a workspace, hub, stack, JVM, wrapper, portal, sandbox, shell, partition, mode, app store, persona, or some other term to describe what a container is or should be. In order to make an informed decision on a container strategy, you need a bit of clarity regarding your container options.
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