Showing posts with label BYOD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BYOD. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

SASE solution helping company to safe guard your BYOD laptop

Even your are using VDI in your company, if your BYOD laptop infected virus, since your laptop are using split tunnel to Internet and SSL connect to your VDI farm. The attacker still able to use the comprised laptop as a jump host to attack your VDI farm no matter your VDI farm only open 443 port with VPN tunnel protection.

Even you already enable different security policy on the BYOD laptop such as check patch level, antivirus definition, is it the antivirus is running etc... it still able to be comprised with being detected. If you have SASE solution, you will able to detect the BYOD laptop outgoing traffic to find out the attacker.


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Sunday, September 10, 2023

How to recommend a phone for BYOD/CYOD/COPE/COBO Android users

Unlike Apple iPhone (iOS), Android phone have many variety, unless user buy a Google Pixel series phone or Android One certified phone (It seems that only Nokia still have phone in Android One program and Nokia phone are pure Android OS with similar OS upgrade and security update policy with Google)

 

It is not easy to recommend a phone for such purpose in the past.

 

So, Google have a program call "Android Enterprise Recommend (AER)"

Android Enterprise Recommended. It's not just a seal of approval. It's a shortlist of devices and service providers that meet Google's strict enterprise requirements. So you can feel good about setting your business up on mobile. - https://www.android.com/intl/en_uk/enterprise/recommended/ and https://www.android.com/enterprise/recommended/

 

Search device for AER:

https://androidenterprisepartners.withgoogle.com/devices/

 

Android Enterprise feature list – which is the feature list for EMM:

https://developers.google.com/android/work/requirements

 

For example, Xiaomi have many phone under this program:

https://www.mi.com/global/support/android-enterprise-recommended

 

For the AER device, each device will receive security updates 90 days, 3 years security update and 2 OS version release upgrade.

 

https://trust.mi.com/zh-CN/misrc/updates/phone?tab=aerdata

 

Remark:

BYOD is Bring Your Own Device

CYOD is Choose Your Own Device

COPE is Company Owned/Personally Enabled

COBO is Company Owned/Business Only

https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2018/06/byod-cyod-cope-cobo-really-mean/

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