From the course: Learning Mobile Device Security
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Defining a managed mobile device
From the course: Learning Mobile Device Security
Defining a managed mobile device
- [Narrator] A managed mobile device is any device that has a management configuration applied to it. What is a management configuration? It is an XML file that defines options open to the user for things like homepage image, email account settings, applications installed, or camera use. The limits of what a configuration profile can do is set by the manufacturer. Most of the time management profiles are put together by management software that apply to the profiles over the air or wirelessly. This kind of management work is done by mobile device management providers. The most popular mobile device management providers or MDM are Intune by Microsoft, AirWatch by Vmware, MaaS360 by IBM, MobileIron, Soti and others. These tools are intended for organizations to manage and enable fleets of mobile devices. New tools like Apple Screen Time are bringing MDM style management ability back to the individual families attempting to manage and secure a family's use of mobile devices. However, if…
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