4 obstacles for Android in your IT environment – Computerworld.nl

Background – Android is becoming more secure option for business environments through improvements to Google and Samsung. But there is still a long way when it will come with BlackBerry or iOS devices.

Because of the fragmentation is the long been difficult to manage Android properly. In addition, there were few features that many companies made accessible management and security, and therefore limited the use of Android to just e-mail access. Meanwhile iPads and iPhones were much deeper within the corporate IT environment. So much so that a BlackBerry increasingly marginal role to play

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But there is good news! There is a native management option for Android. Android for Work can IT’ers Android devices running Android 5.0 Managing containers through a server in the same way that many organizations manage iOS devices via MDM software. That goes far beyond security at Apple, where you can push polices via Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). (Google supports for business users too many of these polices.)

In addition, Google uses modern methods of authentication, such as facial pattern and security, making it easier for users to lock devices. Ironically, just do not use these features with MDM software or EAS, which normally require password use. But you can in any case as an IT administrator or compel that person using lock.

Samsung meanwhile wants its appliances make BlackBerrys of the Android world with additional hardware security, such as features that the integrity of the kernel and check the file and the Knox-technology built into high-end Galaxy smartphones as the S6 and S6 Edge. Knox 2.4 (but not Android for Work) now also supports bulk roll over the air, what they have in the iOS world since the fall of 2013, along with a large group of content management APIs that they get to Android just through Android for Work and Knox.

1. Encryption remains an Achilles heel

It was originally intended that default device encryption was enabled on devices with Android 5.0, but has so far as I know, no manufacturer that done – not even Samsung. Encryption is often added late in the development process and the Android design makes too little use of it is optional and remove. Since 2010 encryption enabled by default iOS and it can not be removed.