Mobile Application Management (MAM)
Mobile devices have become indispensable in everyday business operations for communicating with customers and employees, scheduling appointments, and transmitting important files. However, as the number of mobile devices and the sensitive data stored on them continues to grow, so does the number of information security risks that companies face.
In day-to-day business operations, the administrative management of your smart devices is referred to as Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM). EMM is a comprehensive and holistic approach that, with the right tools, enables employees to use mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets within the company. A key component of EMM is MAM:
Mobile Application Management, or MAM for short, provides secure and comprehensive app control. With the right MAM system, individual app catalogs can be created and deployed within your organization. In this way, the use of desired and undesired applications can be optimized and managed.
In addition, MAM is capable of recording and managing company-owned licenses. At a deeper level of administration, it is even possible to track and evaluate the usage of each application—useful information within the context of the application lifecycle. To support your internal data protection policies, MAM also allows you to restrict or completely disable the entire data exchange of applications.
Mobile Application Management significantly simplifies the administration of internal mobile apps. IT departments can use MAM solutions to control which line-of-business (LOB) apps users can run on their devices and which they need to perform their tasks. It also facilitates centralized management and reduces IT administrative effort. Remote maintenance of apps is also possible.
In summary, the main functions include blocking applications, protecting application data, and controlling application usage.
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