How Small-Medium Businesses Can Tame Mobility Threats?

With the emergence of Enterprise Mobility Solutions India, the organizations have seen a huge shift in the way they were carrying out their business operations till now. However, according to the survey conducted by the Symantec, the majority of enterprises have reported at least one mobile security threat within the last 12 months.


Of course, mobile device management (MDM) empowers the organizations to have a great control over the mobile devices of the employees working within the organization. But the SMBs (Small-Medium Businesses) who are leveraging from the concept of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), the technology could be quite complicated to achieving even a small gain.

Apart from the complexities associated with the implementation of the mobile device management (MDM) solutions, synchronizing the employees’ personal devices with the technology results into the pitfalls for the companies, specifically the small companies. At this moment, almost 61% of the small & mid-sized organizations are allowing its employees to bring their own devices within the enterprise premises. However, according to the IT community & Service Firm – Spiceworks, this number is going to reach by 70% at the end of this year.

Most of the SMBs doesn’t have any robust solution to track their employees’ mobile devices, which at the end poses severe mobile security threats. But it is possible for the SMBs to tackle such mobile threats without even adding complexity. In this post, we’ll see how by simply following a few basic things can help them tame mobility threats on the go!

First and most important thing is that SMBs will have to accept the truth – “They’re having a problem”. Almost 80% of the employees are using their own devices within the enterprise premises. However, business managers are denying the facts. But they should start accepting the fact that employees are using the mobile devices and should plan a strategy to keep their business secure. Moreover, the managers and executives will have to brainstorm about a robust plan to cope up the influx of the new devices.

It is very essential to bring the right kind of person to the table in order to take the right decision based on the types of information being accessed through the devices.

Educate the employees about the security concerns associated with the enterprise mobility solutions. It is must that you educate the workers using their personal devices to access the business information about the mobile security concerns. It is not easy to convince the employees to lock their phones. Organizations should not allow users to bring jailbroken devices within the enterprise network. Moreover, they should ask employees to use more secure applications when it comes to tackle the business data.

Last but not the least, the companies should impose restrictions on the devices to get access to the internal network. It becomes mandatory for the enterprises to force employees use a separate network. For this, the company can create a virtual LAN or guest network, which ensure that the internal network is intact from the access by employees through their personal devices.

Are you planning for the enterprise mobility solutions India? Ensure that you follow a few basic rules discussed here to tame the mobile security threats. Do you have more suggestions? Share it with us by commenting below…!