- Let's go over Mobile Device Management.
Right, so MDM.
And basically what it is,
is the ability to manage any device.
So it can be a phone,
it can be a tablet,
or it can be even a laptop, right?
Any mobile device from a central location.
So an example of that is Cisco Meraki.
There's other companies, you know,
like good, that actually provide
that central enforcement, policy enforcement,
and management of these actual devices.
So, basically the goal is actually to protect those devices,
not only by providing patches perhaps in some locations,
and some you actually cannot do that,
but actually enforcing policies from
that central location.
In this case actually Meraki is in the cloud, right?
So from the cloud you actually can manage devices
within your organization that actually can enforce policies
of perhaps not installing an application,
or for that device not to have the camera enabled
in some scenarios, right?
So actually you can specify very granular policies
on how you actually want to manage those type of devices.
Additionally, some of these devices actually talk to
other devices in the network, like the eyes,
the identity service engine to enforce further policies.
So let's say you actually have an unmanaged tablet,
perhaps actually you don't want this tablet
from accessing a server within your organization, right?
So there is policy that can be sent to,
let's say a switch or a firewall to actually block
this device from connecting to sensitive data,
or sensitive systems in the organization,
and then allow them to actually
connect to the internet, for example.
Or vice versa, that this device only
connects to a specific resource,
and it will not connect to the internet.
So the possibilities are endless
you actually can do very granular policies
and from even not allowing specific applications
sending specific content to the internet
or to communicate to any other devices in your organization.