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Trust Digital Identifies 'Best Practices' for Open Smartphone Mobility
Nov 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Trust Digital, a provider of enterprise mobility management (EMM) for smartphones, identified what it called mobility best practices geared specifically toward IT organizations that want to complement their BlackBerry smartphone deployments with new app phones such as the Apple iPhone, Motorola DROID and Palm Pre.
The best practices tips from Trust Digital enable IT to adopt an open policy towards app phones that leverages the change that is occurring across many mobile OS platforms. Trust Digital's best practices help IT to treat app phones very much like a laptop by automating the configuration of Wi-Fi, VPN and other features to simplify application access:
1. Basic security facilities such as password/pin and remote wipe to protect information when an app phone is lost. These settings must be set remotely via policy.
2. Exchange ActiveSync support services for email and security policies enabling basic services from the enterprise with policy enforcement on the device, enabling out-of-the-box IT support for any app phone.
3. Configuration facilities to remotely provision application clients and device interfaces used to reach the application source (e.g. Wi-Fi, VPN).
4. Encryption (data at rest) support to protect information on the whole device if lost. This, coupled with #1, provides device loss protection for those verticals requiring data at rest encryption.
5. PKI support that allows app phones to receive and ingest digital certificates. The use of certificates helps automate connectivity to enterprise applications via Wi-Fi, VPN and web by making authentication transparent to users.
"Today's smartphones have become platforms for mobile applications beyond email. While traditional smartphones were designed for email and talk, the iPhone and DROID are built for those things plus mobile applications and social networking. Our best practices help make app phones enterprise class by integrating them with existing IT services currently used for laptops and other IT assets. The result is an open mobility environment that leverages any app phone and their supported applications to better serve employees and customers," said Dan Dearing, vice president of marketing at Trust Digital.
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