Twelve Best Practices for Mobile Device Management

Report on and discuss your mobile device inventory and policy status — including personal devices — in your IT operations reviews. It’s a good way to broaden the discussion beyond those responsible for managing devices in your environment. It’s also an opportunity to raise the visibility of the benefits for your organization, as well as for future resource requirements such as needed involvement from those responsible for security and other areas of IT. Your inventory and reporting tool should make it simple to produce the reports to start conversations in these meetings.

Designed for Any Environment

The practices we’ve discussed so far should meet most organizations’ needs. In fact, they satisfy the most stringent security and privacy regulations, such as those dictated by the HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI DSS. These regulations only require, in practice, that organizations encrypt their data and are able to destroy data on a lost device. The essential practices cover that and more.

Build Upon Your Foundation with Advanced Practices

With the essentials in place, your organization is primed for an effective mobile IT operation in the near term. Now you need to determine whether or not your organization needs to go a step further with advanced practices.