Trends Report

Brief: Plan Your Four-Tiered Approach To Enterprise Mobile Security

January 23rd, 2015
Pamela Heiligenthal, null
Pamela Heiligenthal
With contributors:
Elizabeth Cullen , Alex Cullen , Tyler Shields

Summary

In the early stages of enterprise mobility, many firms bought a mobile device management (MDM) tool to protect and secure email and calendar access. As enterprise mobility goes beyond simple email applications to address customers' and employee's mobile moments, which often require access to critical business processes and backend data, this introduces new risks, i.e., ensuring the security of back-end systems and securing the underlying data. As enterprise mobility unfolds, enterprises must go beyond traditional device management tools to build a holistic four-tiered security approach, which mitigates risk at every layer of the architecture stack. This report addresses the new mobile security approach as enterprise, security, and risk architects adopt major mobile security shifts and work toward implementing a comprehensive portfolio of technology.

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