Mobile Device Management Overview

A key task of any Administrator is to protect and secure an organization’s resources and data on devices in their organization. This task is device management. Users receive and send email from personal accounts, browse websites from home and from restaurants, and install apps and games. These users are also employees and students. On their devices, they want to access work and school resources, such as email and OneNote, and access them quickly. As an administrator, your goal is to protect these resources, and provide easy access for users across their many devices, all at the same time.

Device management enables organizations to protect and secure their resources and data, and from different devices.

Using a device management provider, organization can make sure that only authorized people and devices get access to proprietary information. Similarly, device users can feel at ease accessing work data from their phone, because they know their device meet their organization's security requirements. As an organization, you might ask - What should we use to protect our resources?

The answer is Microsoft Intune. Intune offers mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM). Some key tasks of any MDM or MAM solution are to:

• Support a diverse mobile environment and manage iOS/iPadOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices securely.
• Make sure devices and apps are compliant with your organization's security requirements.
• Create policies that help keep your organization data safe on organization-owned and personal devices.
• Use a single, unified mobile solution to enforce these policies, and help manage devices, apps, users, and groups.
• Protect your company information by helping to control the way your workforce accesses and shares its data.

Intune is included with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and integrates with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Azure AD helps control who has access, and what they have access to.