Security Solutions

Why do we need an enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution?

Mobile is rapidly transforming how organizations do business. However, managing and protecting the mobile devices, apps and content that contain sensitive corporate data can present overwhelming challenges for any IT or Security team. An EMM solution can help simplify the move to mobile by:

• Managing your entire mobile device fleet
• Increasing productivity with secured emails, apps and content
• Reducing security and compliance risks
• Controlling your entire mobile IT environment

What are the suites and products that make up IBM MaaS360?

• Mobile Device Management: Manage smartphones, tablets & laptops featuring iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry. Gain visibility of devices, security & network. Enforce compliance with near real-time & automated actions.
• Mobile Application Management: Deploy custom enterprise app catalogs. Blacklist, whitelist & require apps. Administer app volume purchase programs.
• Mobile Expense Management: Monitor mobile data usage with near real-time alerts. Set policies to restrict or limit data & voice roaming. Review integrated reporting and analytics.

IBM MaaS360 Productivity Suite delivers a robust set of cross-platform solutions to isolate and contain work emails, Web access and app data to prevent data leaks. It helps empower employees to safely access corporate data while helping preserving the mobile experience on their devices. This suite includes:

• Secure Mobile Mail: Contain email text & attachments to help prevent data leakage. Enforce authentication, copy/paste & forwarding restrictions. FIPS 140-2 compliant, AES-256 bit encryption for data at rest.
• Secure Mobile Browser: Enable highly secure access to intranet sites & web apps w/o VPN. Define URL filters based on categories & whitelisted sites. Restrict cookies, downloads, copy/paste and print features.
• Mobile Application Security: Contain enterprise apps with a simple app wrapper or SDK. Enforce authentication & copy/paste restrictions. Prevent access from compromised devices.

IBM MaaS360 Content Suite enables a protected, encrypted container and productivity suite to distribute, view, create, edit and share documents on mobile devices, helping organizations gain the control they need and employees the access they demand. This suite includes:

• Mobile Content Management: Contain documents & files to help prevent data leakage. Enforce authentication, copy/paste & view-only restrictions. Access IBM MaaS360 distributed content and repositories such as SharePoint, Box, OneDrive and Google Drive.
• Mobile Document Editor: Create, edit & save content in a protected, encrypted container. Collaborate on Word, Excel, PowerPoint & text files. Change fonts & insert images, tables, shapes, links and more.
• Mobile Document Sync: Synchronize user content across managed devices. Restrict copy/paste & opening in unmanaged apps. Store content with enterprise grade security, both in the cloud and on devices.

IBM MaaS360 Gateway Suite offers simple, protected access to behind-the-firewall business resources, such as SharePoint, Windows File Share, intranet sites and app databases. This suite includes:

• Gateway for Browser: Enable IBM MaaS360 Gateway for Browser to access enterprise intranet sites, web apps and network resources. It provides protected access without needing a VPN session on the mobile device.
• Gateway for Documents: Enhance IBM MaaS360 Mobile Content Management with protected access to internal files, e.g. SharePoint & Windows File Share. Retrieve enterprise documents without a device VPN session.
• Gateway for Apps: Add per app VPN to IBM MaaS360 Mobile Application Security to integrate behind-the-firewall data in private apps. Incorporate enterprise data without a device VPN session.

IBM MaaS360 Mobile Threat Management helps detect, analyze and remediate mobile risks on iOS and Android devices, including malware, suspicious system configurations and compromised devices, thereby delivering a new layer of security for Enterprise Mobility Management.

manages Windows-based laptops, desktop and ultra-books, and Apple MacBooks, iMacs and Mac Pros, delivering actionable intelligence across all of your laptops and distributed PCs. By collecting and correlating endpoint data from these devices, you get visibility into hardware and installed software, missing patches, outdated anti-virus signature files, and so much more.

What device types and associated software versions are supported by IBM MaaS360 Mobile Device Management?

Compatible with iOS 4.3+, Android 2.2+, Windows Phone 7.5+, BlackBerry 5.0+ and Amazon Fire OS devices. IBM MaaS360 Laptop Management supports Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1+, Windows 10 and Mac OS X 10.5 – 10.10. Instant, same day support of the latest mobile OS platform releases and upgrades is included.

What are the benefits of using MaaS360?

• Delivers a state-of-the-art system to protect against mobile malware on iOS and Android devices
• Better technology model, cost model, and support structure - No new infrastructure, no change control and simple setup
• Better user interface and more intuitive than any other product on the market
• Better platform security - Only MDM solution which is FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) Compliant
• A more advanced set of features