How to Secure Your Mobile Fleet? Free Antivirus

Used in the professional environment, mobile devices, tablets and smartphones can contain very sensitive confidential data.

Smartphones and tablets are as affected by data theft and hacking as computers. Inventory of the means to be implemented in the management of your mobile fleet to limit the risks.

Used in the professional context, mobile devices, tablets and smartphones can contain highly sensitive confidential data: customer files, contracts, accounting documents, etc. In the event of loss, theft or attempted hacking, they constitute a danger for the company and the integrity of its data.
Yet, many users do not care much about the security of their devices. According to a study carried out by the free antivirus of smartphone owners take the trouble to protect themselves. This is not much, when we know that  of them secure their computer.

Result: the pirates rush into the breach. In the third quarter of 2017, 16 million smartphone users fell victim to malware, according to the McAfee mobile threat report, published earlier this year.

Basic precautions to secure your mobile fleet

To guard against risks, you must start by complying with basic safety rules. The first is to choose secure - and therefore complex and unique - passwords for your applications. Are you worried that you won't be able to memorize them? A password manager, like Dashlane, lets you store them in a safe place and call them up on demand.

To secure your mobile fleet, a piece of advice: also avoid downloading applications for which you do not know the origin. For smartphones, the best is to use the content available on the Google Play Store or the App Store.

Finally of course, equip yourself with an antivirus . Some, including the Lookout Premium app, are very effective in combating malware. These antiviruses adapted for the use of tablets and smartphones offer an appreciable security in the management of a mobile fleet.

Of course, to secure your mobile fleet in the long term, you must also pass on these best practices to your employees, so that everyone applies them at their own level.

 
Mobile device management (MDM), ideal for managing a mobile fleet

Despite their relevance, these precautions are not sufficient to eliminate all risks. This is why software publishers have created solutions dedicated to the security of mobile fleets. Designated under the generic term of mobile device management, or MDM, they make it possible to manage and secure a fleet of mobile devices remotely in a simple and very efficient way.

Thanks to these MDM solutions, you can remotely configure access to your employees' mobile devices, locate their devices in the event of loss and, if necessary, erase their content. All on a dedicated MDM interface. The latter also makes it possible to install applications, perform remote diagnostics and, if necessary, launch preventive security actions.

Good to know: Orange has developed several mobile device management (MDM) offers, including one more specially adapted to the needs of small mobile fleets, from around twenty devices. Called Device Management Express , it allows you to manage and secure remotely, thanks to a secure Web interface, a fleet of tablets and smartphones, in complete autonomy.

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