Mobility Q&A: MSC Mobility

What mobile device management or mobile security solutions do you deploy?

MobileIron, Airwatch, Citrix XenMobile and BlackBerry

When did your company first get involved in this area?

In 2008, providing hosted BlackBerry services to the financial services industry.

What are your credentials?

We are MobileIron Iron Partner Certified. We’ve got extensive experience integrating mobile platforms into corporate infrastructures delivering SSO and certificate-based authentication.

Have you heard about any cool MDM or mobile security technology lately? 

Appthority, a very fresh approach to mobile app scanning; Framehawk, an innovative approach to remote access; Telesign, mobile identity; SAT Mobile ID, really cool multi-factor proximity-based security; iProximity, beacons and how they can interact with different services on a device.

Can you tell us about a recent client project?

Working with a state-based law enforcement agency, MSC was able to remove significant costs associated with a Cisco and Microsoft PKI infrastructure deployment that was thought to be required to provide access to a key field agent application. By leveraging MobileIron Sentry, MSC architects were able to enable certificate-based authentication for dynamic iOS VPNs.

What is driving customers towards MDM or mobile security?

Largely data loss prevention and compliance requirements although this varies from organisation to organisation. Many organisations look to MDM to enable application deployment and basic security features such as password enforcement and reset, and device wiping.

Mobility is…?

About freeing the enterprise to innovate, and freeing the user to be effective anywhere on any device at any time.