As the noise of BYOD and Consumerisation continues to increase in volume and interest the number of tools to manage such a diverse range of devices typically increases too. Hopefully the latest news from Airwatch is a trend that will continue. Historically MDM providers have looked to offer support and governance to tablet style devices. Airwatch has just announced announced its mobile security solution now supports devices running Mac OS X Lion.
With this new release, IT administrators can maintain security across both iOS and Mac OS X Lion operating systems to ensure consistent policies and profiles throughout their organisation. This new update also enables organisations to manage corporate liable, employee liable (BYOD) or shared Mac OS X Lion devices throughout the entire device lifecycle. As part of the company’s commitment to the Mac platforms, AirWatch plans to support the new features in Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X 10.8 release.
The initial OS X management release includes MDM capabilities for web-based enrolment; commands to remotely lock and wipe devices; and device and application list query. Support for profile management capabilities include:
- Passcode and policy settings
- Email (POP, IMAP, SMTP) and exchange settings
- Wi-Fi and VPN configurations
- Certificates and simple certificate enrollment protocol (SCEP)
- Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP), calendaring extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) and contact extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV)
- Webclips
- Custom profiles
Equanet has an end-to-end tablet capability from strategy definition through to implementation and support. So if you are looking at BYOD using a cross platform of Mac devices we can help you design, implement and support it.
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