{"id":7171,"date":"2017-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esecurityplanet.com\/2017\/04\/05\/enterprise-mobility-management-emm-securing-corporate-data-on-mobile-devices\/"},"modified":"2021-01-28T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T16:21:50","slug":"enterprise-mobility-management-emm-securing-corporate-data-on-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esecurityplanet.com\/mobile\/enterprise-mobility-management-emm-securing-corporate-data-on-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Mobility Management Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The modern enterprise is mobile and employees are no longer tethered to their corporate owned and provisioned computing equipment. As is the case in the wired world, mobile end-user devices need to be managed to improve employee productivity and to reduce enterprise security risks. That’s the world that Enterprise Mobility Management<\/strong> (EMM) inhabits.<\/p>\n

What is EMM?<\/h2>\n

The term Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is an evolution of the technology used to help control and manage mobile devices.<\/p>\n

EMM is an evolution of the Bring Your Device (BYOD)<\/a><\/strong> phenomenon that has been going on for well over a decade in organizations around the world. The emergence of Apple’s iPhone a decade ago was a real catalyst in the movement, as employees chose to use their own iPhones over corporate provided devices. The first generation of BYOD management platforms was known as Mobile Device Management (MDM)<\/strong><\/a> and originally focused largely on the hardware enrollment and access part of the BYOD challenge.<\/p>\n

The Mobile Application Management (MAM)<\/strong> categorization of mobile management technologies was initially all about helping organizations manage the software piece, specifically client-side applications running on mobile devices.<\/p>\n

The early promise of MAM was to provide capabilities that were not in MDM, namely the application piece, providing curated app stores for corporate use as well as data management policies. While MDM initially was all about hardware and MAM was about the software, the term Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) is a superset of both MDM and MAM capabilities as well as adding mobile information management.<\/p>\n

EMM features<\/h2>\n

A full EMM platform contains multiple capabilities to help secure mobile device usage in an enterprise environment.<\/p>\n