Symantec delivers complete mobile device life cycle management

Bengaluru: Symantec announced its mobile security and management strategy, including three products to help organizations secure and manage data on the rising number of mobile devices in the enterprise. Symantec's mobile strategy focuses on the effective integration of its mobile security and management solutions to help customers reduce downtime, increase user productivity, improve response time and provide protection and management throughout the mobile device life cycle-from provisioning and management to security and eventual device retirement.

“As mobile devices become more sophisticated, provide greater corporate access and store more data, organizations require greater control and management to protect corporate information and ensure user productivity — all while reducing costs,” said Vishal Dhupar, MD, Symantec India. “Our mobile strategy is designed to protect and manage data wherever it resides and automate procurement and provisioning, provide ongoing maintenance and protection, and quickly retire the mobile devices if they are lost, damaged, stolen or replaced,” he added.

Having a comprehensive mobile strategy in place will become increasingly important as mobile devices continue to permeate the business environment. Symantec's mobile management and security strategy follows a life cycle model, provides tight integration and aligns with the company's broad portfolio. As part of its mobile strategy, the company is now offering three new products to help customers mitigate risk, manage complexity, control costs, automate processes and address compliance concerns with efficiency and cost savings.

· Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile Edition 6.0 provides protection for mobile devices against malicious threats and unauthorized access to sensitive corporate information by utilizing
award-winning anti-virus technology, an advanced firewall, and SMS anti-spam protection. It also helps ensure both the protection of the data on the mobile devices and compliance with internal and external security requirements.

· Symantec Network Access Control Mobile Edition 6.0 works with Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile Edition to enforce compliancy with security policies to ensure that only secure, policy-compliant devices can access the network. The Network Access Control Mobile Edition provides client-based integrity checking and centralized alerting of device integrity status. This helps organizations ensure that they are able to consistently enforce IT policy. Centralized logging, reporting, and alerting further enables organizations to proactively monitor the status of managed devices.

· Symantec Mobile Management 7.0 increases IT efficiency with over-the-air deployment of applications and updates, improves end-user productivity by managing mobile device health, and integrates with Symantec mobile security products to manage and secure mobile devices throughout their life cycle. It provides powerful remote assistance capabilities, real-time system management, granular software delivery and self repair, and complete visibility into the mobile environment.

Symantec's mobile security and management solutions are built on the company's Management Platform, which provides unified enterprise-class management of desktops, laptops, servers and mobile devices. This enables administrators to centrally define and distribute security policies to mobile devices. The Management Platform also provides product integration to enable unified security and management of mobile devices from a single management console, thus reducing complexity, mitigating risk, and lowering costs. Integration with Symantec LiveUpdate further helps to ensure timely updates of content.