Mobile Device Management - CompTIA A+ 220-1201 - 1.3

if you have an organization and you need to manage all of the mobile phones used in the organization then you need a mobile device manager or MDM this allows you to manage devices that may be owned by your company or devices that are personally owned this would be a b yod where someone is bringing their own

device to use at work when that occurs you need some way to be able to centrally manage all of your mobile devices from one place this is a relatively specialized function and so you need specialized software to be able to do this an MDM allows you as the system administrator to set certain

rules and parameters on how these mobile devices are used so you could set policies on which applications are allowed or not allowed you can configure or disable functionality of things like your camera or GPS and effectively control almost every aspect of these mobile devices this also allows you as a company to set up a partitioned area on

someone's personal phone for use by the organization this allows your users to have their own private data that is protected and private to them and have a different part of the phone that is partitioned off just for corporate data and from a security perspective you can require the use of certain security policies for example you may require

everyone in your organization to use screen locks and those screen locks need to have a personal identification number or other type of access in order to unlock that phone BYOD is a interesting challenge for organizations this of course stands for bring your own device you may see this also referred to as bring your own technology the employee