On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Allen Fu <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently my company is seeking the possibility to enable BYOD. > But we found that it's hard to balance security and usability on email, > calendar and task application. Are you developing in-house, or are you going through a vendor?
> Native clients are good but lack of integration with MDM solution such as > mobileiron. Good, MobileIron, et al are bolt on libraries. If developing in-house, you need to integrate with them. If you are going through a vendor, the vendor needs to integrate with them. Not everyone is Enterprise-aware, and I would expect most of the stuff on Goole Play to be unaware. Word to the wise: PenTest the final solutions. Security in practice will vary from the marketing literature. Android has native MDM APIs dating back to 2.x. See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/admin/device-admin.html. The last time I checked, Google does not offer a MDM or BES-like server for centralized administration, though. > Other alternatives like nitrodesk touchdown are not stable and we don't like > the user interface either. > Is it possible to offer native MDM integration like iOS in the future? I believe there are a number of EAS compatible email clients available (my apologies if you are not an Exchange shop). If the EAS compatible clients are missing features or don't work as advertised, you could visit http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list. One biggie for me: shut down ADB. There are other problems prior to Android 4.0 (ICS), such as difficulty in storing secrets and external memory as a data egress point. The storing secrets problem has not completely gone away, but the KeyChain is a big help on non-rooted devices. ICS is not the silver bullet since it still has other issues. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
