5 Ways Small Businesses Can Improve Their BYOD Mobile Security

The concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has brought both positive and negative news for the small businesses. Enabling employees to carry out their organization tasks or operations using their personal mobile devices helps small businesses save a lot of money in device and carrier planning costs. But personal mobile devices have become one of the biggest security threats for the SMBs.

In such scenario, before you plan out your SAP enterprise mobility solutions and mobile device management strategy, it is must that you keep in mind that security threats are not just limited to the external hackers. Your own employee can pose a greater security threat to your organization. While taking risks are a reality of business owner’s life, failing to utilize them in a best possible way could impose a bigger risk. Therefore, you should definitely take a few basic steps in order to help you improve your BYOD mobile security.

Here’re the mobile security best practices that every business owner should follow to improve the security of their organization:

1. Ensure you disconnect employees once they leave office premises.
It is essential that you keep control on the amount and type of data being accessed by the employees can access. Employees should not have access to more data apart what they actually need to complete their tasks. Also, ensure that you have enough resources that disconnect or wipe the company data from the personal devices of the employee once they leave the company premises.

2. Implement security basics
Ensure you deploy antivirus and malware solutions across all the mobile devices used within an organization. If you feel your employees can’t spare to update the software, then automate the process so that you can know the security software is up to date on all the mobile devices.

3. Utilize built-in security controls within the mobile device.
Most of all the mobile devices have some built-in security controls, such as lock screens and the ability to wipe the device after a specific number of failed authentication efforts. Try to utilize such inbuilt security features of the mobile devices as such tools can help you provide some security until you adopt more robust and advanced BYOD technologies.

4. Utilize MDM solutions
Make sure you choose the mobile device management system that provide seamless support to all the mobile platforms including Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and more. It will help you get rid of managing multiple systems. Try to search for the system that offers management console as it will enable you to manage all the mobile devices from one point. However, make sure you also look for the other features offered by the MDM solutions.

5. Protect your data rather than the mobile devices
Many organizations who have implemented SAP enterprise mobility solutions often try to safeguard the mobile devices rather than focusing on the security of the mobile devices. However, it is must that organizations should focus more on protecting data rather than protecting devices.

Following these simple ways will help you improve BYOD mobile security for your small business. Do you have any questions or suggestions about this post? Share it in comments…!

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How To Accelerate Enterprise Mobility?

Enterprise mobility has seen a great rise in the past few years, and the main reason behind that is it enables organizations to accomplish something new at the place and time where it is quite useful. For example, it empowers IT managers within an organization to get alerts about a system outage while he is busy in doing his regular task or in conference.

As mobility enables the enterprises, employees and customers reap the benefits, it has become imperative for the organization to make maximum use of their enterprise mobility service integration investment in order to achieve results faster, before the competitors reach far ahead of them. With the mobile enterprise application platform, organizations are empowered to build secure, connected mobile applications compatible with the organizational needs & deeds more speedily and efficiently, which allows IT to focus on end user benefits and overall business growth.

But the question would be how you can accelerate enterprise mobility investment to reap the sweet fruits of success for your business? Well, there are three basic technical pillars that can help you achieve it. All of the three tips are a combination of speed and control over the app development, allow teams to work with agility throughout the creation, deployment and management cycles.

Useful and flexible tools

Mobile app development tools should be easy to use and flexible. All the visual deployment tools offer rapid app design and creation, and help organizations to get rid of challenges of pre-platform native coding. Moreover, you should be able to quickly improve the applications once they are deployed. Both the mobile web and configuration based mobile enterprise application platforms allow rapid, cross-platform change with instant results for the end user.

However, while the mobile applications require a huge amount of coding, the best mobile platforms deliver instant changes including the core requirements, localization and audit tracking.

Server-side Integration

Integration of the enterprise mobility solutions with the core business system is a heavy lift, which will accelerate your enterprise mobility efforts and investment. The professional and experienced enterprise mobility app developers are well-aware about the fact that meeting corporate IT requirements for the app deployment is quite difficult to achieve. Single sign-on, disparate systems, complicated authorization schemes, user enrollment, logging requirements and more are the list of IT demands and many of the enterprises often overlook all such demands, which results into large and unbudgeted efforts. So make sure your mobile infrastructure account of all these demands.

Deployment Management

In order to own your mobility, you should not only be able to build great mobile apps, but also deploy and manage them effectively. The success of this phase starts with simplifying your environment. Moreover, replacing code-centric tools with a configuration-based mobile platforms reduces engineering staff and eliminates the cost and complexity of multi-platform source control, unit testing, build management, and update distribution.

What are the other tips you have to accelerate enterprise mobility? Share your ideas or tips with us by commenting below…!

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SAP Pushes Into The Cloud Computing – Is It A Right Move?

SAP, a German Enterprise Software Solutions provider, takes it all to the cloud computing. It can even ruin its own business, in order to create a strong foundation for the new one!

SAP, which is well-known for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software applications, which are used to control the complex manufacturing, runs operate functions like Financials, or manage an organization’s entire system of supply. Earlier SAP has revealed HANA, a product that combines fast computing and data retrieval to more effectively analyze how well an organization is performing. The product has achieved immense success and the company has started saying that it is the FUTURE of an organization.

However, in a May month, the company has announced that it would offer HANA as a cloud-based product, offering companies with access for the cost of the license. But the prices were not revealed. SAP has successfully established a network of seven data centers across the different corners of the world to support its new venture, a company official said, and will start by deploying almost thirty thousand computers in the network.

Regarding this new endeavor, a company’s executive board, Mr. Vishal Sikka said that “we will do cloud-based ERP on a huge scale.” He further added that “At some point in the future, complex implementation should go away. All of our products are moving to HANA.”

SAP and other partner companies who are agreed to test the product, already possess 750 terabytes of data in the system, which enough to fill the 750 million good-sized blocks. The company is expecting to have twice that amount in the system by the end of the year 2013. However, SAP somehow managed to convince and gain the trust of big customers with cloud, which will make SAP a giant in the industry.

SAP is already running both cloud and SaaS (Software as a Service) projects, and all the credit goes to the two companies, Ariba and SuccessFactors. By pushing HANA to the cloud, SAP is moving much more into providing insights online, either directly to the customers or as a service to the end-users. Mr. Sikka further said that SAP served around 220 utilities across the world, who reaches around 2.5 billion customers. The utilities will enable customers to use HANA to model how much they are investing and finding ways to cut their bills.

The data analysis tool might be utilized to include real-time understanding of the online customers, financial risk analysis or quick insight into the geologic information for the energy companies, he further added.

If SAP follows through on a fast build out to the cloud, it would create some disputes with Amazon Web Services, which is currently an SAP partner. 

However, it is a great move by the company to provide tough competition to the Oracle, which is operating its own cloud services. 

So, would it be a boon for SAP or it will create issues? For this, we can just wait to see how this move from the SAP would help them reap the benefits of cloud computing…!

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