3-step plan for carefree tablet administration

Tablets provide IT departments gray hair: people are increasingly taking into mobile devices, and to the detriment of safety. A solution in three laptop lcd screen steps.

Employees with private or provided by the company iPad tablet computer or other sensitive corporate data exposed to hackers, if not the proper precautions. This can be done on the company as a public Wi-Fi network.

"Tablets are a different story than laptops. Few people will take their laptops to work and take the IT department to ask them to connect to the corporate network," said Dan Croft, director of Mission Critical Wireless. "Most laptops are managed and secured by the company. If that company will deploy tablets with business apps on it, there must be some control. At the same time recognizing that their employees use both tablets for their work or personal purposes."

With this in mind, according to analysts three steps by companies wishing to invest in tablets or their employees to allow their mobile devices to take them to their laptop keyboard work:

Step 1: Use a management platform for mobile devices

The use of management platforms for mobile devices (MDM) is the best way to implement policy in terms of passwords and minimum safety guidelines set for tablet PCs on corporate networks. "This is necessary if your company wants some control over every device that is connected to the home network," said Croft. "Ideally, you only behind a screen control over all devices accessing your network."

The best MDM platforms, such as AirWatch, MobileIron and Sybase, support different operating systems. Therefore you do not need separate systems for all types of devices that users bring to the office. Your IT services are entirely focused on managing the users themselves.

"In general it is believed that the user you should" manage "rather than the HP Mini 110 screen equipment," says Forrester analyst Christian Kane also. "You must understand that employees use a particular device at home and a different kind of work, while they have access to the applications zs need."

Clear rules

According to Kane, this means for users to the company any device can carry to the office, but the boss does not take responsibility for things like theft and repairs. The organization has been tasked to provide access to the applications that the user needs for his job. Access to apps that are not secured on their device, should be closed

Jim Freeland, Medtronic now allows one year to iPads on its network. He believes that companies should allow their employees to work with devices to take. In return, they must HP Mini 210 screen introduce clear rules for mobile device management, allowing users to observe a strict security protocol in exchange for access to the company.

"If someone comes in force with its own device, then that person must also accept security settings, such as DeviceLock, mandatory passwords and the ability to remotely clean up their tablet from the Exchange Server," said Freeland. "The only way a user should have access to the network by accepting the rules of the MDM solution."

Step 2: Develop a strategy for apps

For those who did not know: mobile apps are quite popular. Earlier this year Gartner predicted that even in 2011, 17.7 billion mobile apps would be downloaded, with estimated revenues of $ 15 billion.

You must provide a way for the mobile apps for your employees to manage, as you grant them access to critical business applications they have on their desktop PCs. By virtualizing their desktop applications for the tablet are you sure they are used safely and that the data stored on corporate lands.

According to Kane takes great effort to ensure that business separate from consumer HP DM1 screen applications. "Some companies want Windows applications to use tablets, which she virtualization tools bets like the Citrix Receiver and VMware View. With such tools, they can also business separate from user-downloaded apps, so no interaction is" so advises Kane.

Own app store

Another way to tablet apps to manage the setting up its own app store. This lets you know that certain popular apps users have been approved, so you fully understand the apps with access to the company. Croft observes that companies must ensure that their employees who own app store sufficient popular games and other entertainment apps can find. "You need a user-friendly environment with apps for relaxation and work."

Companies must therefore next critical apps certainly Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja offer.

According to Joel Evans of Mobiquity is setting up its own app store much easier than it seems, as long as businesses and not overdo it and try Apple's App Store or Google's Android HP DM3 screen Market to match. "One of our customers had an internal app-store set up by their own website with links to secure URLs that users their apps could get. There are enough open-source alternatives to set up easy to manage app stores" said Evans.

Step 3: tell users what the limits of your responsibility are

As mentioned, the trend is no longer managing devices, but the users themselves, and their access to the company. This gives users much more freedom and responsibility to manage their devices. You have to clearly identify the various components, the company is responsible and which not. "Users want to do what they want and give the IT department to blame if something goes wrong," said Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney. "This is an untenable HP DM4 screen situation."