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Mobile device management

Mobile device management

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 4 Communication and Network Security

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Mobile device management

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- [Instructor] In the last video, you learned how you can configure the security settings on an individual mobile device to meet an organization's security requirements. If you try to do this for every single device in your organization, you'll be facing a formidable challenge. That's where mobile device management technology comes into play. Mobile device management or MDM solutions provide organizations with an easy way to manage the security settings on many mobile devices simultaneously. MDM is similar to the way you might use active directory to manage these settings on many Windows systems. Administrators may create and enforce policies across groups of devices from a central console without requiring individual access to multiple devices. In fact, MDM solutions are often incorporated into broader configuration management solutions called unified endpoint management or UEM platforms. MDM also allows administrators…

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