Mobile Device Management: Vital to Securing your Data

Due to the popularity of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend and increase in remote workers, Gartner estimates that 70% of mobile professionals will conduct business on personal smart devices by 2018. While these trends offer a lot of benefits, including cost savings, they can open the door to security risks and breaches. To combat these challenges and protect mobile data, Microsoft introduced Intune, a mobile device management tool for Office 365 in late October. Here are the top 3 ways mobile device management (MDM) can benefit you:

3 Technologies That Can Give You More Data Security

Data security is a serious matter for every organization. Whether it's working with highly sensitive medical files, or just sending business emails that contain company strategies, every company has sensitive information that needs to be guarded. The good news is that despite several recent highly publicized data security breaches, your company data can be safer now than ever before thanks to a slew of technologies that do nothing but protect information. Even better, they are readily available, and require very little technical know-how to implement and use. 

Enterprise Mobility Management

A new generation of devices, applications and increasing network capacity has made employees and customers more mobile then ever. Like anything else, challenges accompany the adoption and management of mobility, but the benefits are just unsurpassable. I find that embracing mobile technology unleashes a whole new level of productivity, collaboration, innovation and competitiveness for business that was never before possible.

Benefits of tablet PCs

Tablet PCs are innovative, convenient and have been revolutionizing the PC industry for the last few years. They are ideal for staying connected and organized, whether for professional or personal use, and offer a wide variety of benefits for everyone, including:

Protecting Your Mobile Device

There are tons of mobile devices available today offering a variety of features that allows us to stay connected and conduct our business activities while away from the office. With our smart phones or tablets, we are able to access email, create and edit documents, download files from the web, access our company VPN and be productive remotely in many other ways that were impossible a few short years ago.

With so much information on hand at all times, it is important to ask yourself how secure is the information on my smart phone? Many of you already may have settings and tools in place to ensure your information will be secure, but here are a few tips to consider implementing that may guarantee the security of your smart phone.

Remote Access Options

The Telework Research Network http://undress4success.com/research/telecommuting-statistics/ estimates that 20 to 30 million people currently work from home at least one day a week. In fact, there are an increasing number of workers who say their workday begins before they set foot in the office – conducting work responsibilities from their home computers or smartphones. Mobility, especially in the business sector, is an expectation for many and for that reason there are many applications that provide access to the home-based computers from anywhere in the world.

Here are a few of those applications:

Tips for Effectively Working on a Virtual Team

Technology now enables co-workers to easily work together regardless of where they are located. Business travel is exhausting, expensive and time-consuming, but today businesses can choose from a wide-range of teleconferencing solutions to reduce or replace travel. Being able to work in a virtual environment also supports green initiatives by reducing a firm’s carbon footprint, and helps employees keep a healthy work/life balance by allowing them to spend more time with their families and less time on the road.

Consider the following solutions when building or maintaining a virtual team.