What process and supporting technologies are used to track, control, and secure the organization's mobile infrastructure?

What process and supporting technologies are used to track, control, and secure the organization's mobile infrastructure?

• A. Identity and access management
• B. Mobile threat defense
• C. Mobile device management
• D. Network access control

Answer: (C)

Managing and securing the mobile landscape requires a centralized approach to device lifecycle: discovering devices, enforcing security policies, configuring settings, managing apps, and enabling remote actions if a device is lost or out of compliance. This is what mobile device management provides. It allows enrolling devices, maintaining an inventory of hardware and software, enforcing passcodes and encryption, pushing security and configuration policies, distributing and updating applications, and performing remote actions like lock or wipe. It also supports compliance checks, OS and app patching, and data protection through containerization or separation of corporate apps and data. Because of this broad control over both the device state and installed software, it best covers the processes and technologies needed to track, control, and secure the organization's mobile infrastructure. Identity and access management focuses on who can access systems rather than the device itself. Mobile threat defense concentrates on detecting and mitigating on-device threats, not the full device management lifecycle. Network access control governs access to networks but doesn’t manage the device’s policy, app, and data protections across the fleet.

Managing and securing the mobile landscape requires a centralized approach to device lifecycle: discovering devices, enforcing security policies, configuring settings, managing apps, and enabling remote actions if a device is lost or out of compliance. This is what mobile device management provides. It allows enrolling devices, maintaining an inventory of hardware and software, enforcing passcodes and encryption, pushing security and configuration policies, distributing and updating applications, and performing remote actions like lock or wipe. It also supports compliance checks, OS and app patching, and data protection through containerization or separation of corporate apps and data. Because of this broad control over both the device state and installed software, it best covers the processes and technologies needed to track, control, and secure the organization's mobile infrastructure.

Identity and access management focuses on who can access systems rather than the device itself. Mobile threat defense concentrates on detecting and mitigating on-device threats, not the full device management lifecycle. Network access control governs access to networks but doesn’t manage the device’s policy, app, and data protections across the fleet.