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FEATURE: MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT
file. These shared images eliminate the need
to download shared content, and enforce
read-only permissions.
Q
How does VMware
AirWatch ensure
employee privacy?
With AirWatch MDM, you can
ensure the privacy of personal
data by creating customised
privacy policies that do not
collect personal data based on the device
ownership type. In addition, you can define
granular privacy settings to disable the
collection of the personally identifiable
information and disallow certain remote
actions to employee-owned devices to ensure
employee privacy. You must inform your end
users about how their data is collected and
stored when they enrol into AirWatch.
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A privacy notice informs your end users
about what data you collect from their
devices based on their device type,
deployment type, and ownership type.
Privacy notices are automatically delivered
based on the organisation group and
device ownership of the device connecting.
Q
What is the uptake
of MDM solutions like
in Africa?
There has been an upsurge
in the adoption of VMware
Airwatch or Workspace One
powered by Airwatch in sub-
Saharan Africa. VMware’s Workspace One
vision of Unified Endpoint Management
coupled with Identity management is
resonating with enterprise customers and
even in the SMB space. Customers want
Workspace One to replace competitors
siloed solutions in favour of a single platform
delivering a great experience of any app to
any device.
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There is very little resistance in the adoption
of MDM/EMM solutions from a corporate-
owned device point of view where the
device is supplied and fully managed by
the employer, however, it is a different story
when it comes to the BYOD (bring your own
device) use cases. End users or employees
are still concerned around privacy. VMware
takes this concern seriously and ensures
that we cater for privacy policies within our
Unified Endpoint Management solutions to
USING THE AIRWATCH CONTENT
GATEWAY WITH VMWARE CONTENT
LOCKER ALLOWS YOU TO PROVIDE
UNMATCHED LEVELS OF ACCESS TO
YOUR CORPORATE CONTENT WITHOUT
SACRIFICING SECURITY.
stores in the cloud by default. In some use
cases, storing certain types of content in
the cloud poses a security risk; Remote
File Storage can be used to store Personal
Content in a dedicated on-premise location.
• Content Rendering Engine
The Content Rendering Engine (CRE)
integrates with Remote File Storage to
secure shared Personal Content. When an
end user shares Personal Content from the
Self-Service Portal, CRE converts the shared
content into a rendered image of the source
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You may choose to display a privacy notice
for each ownership type: employee-owned,
corporate-dedicated, corporate-shared,
and unknown.
Device Profiles are the primary means
by which you can manage devices. They
represent the settings that, when combined
with compliance policies, help you enforce
corporate rules and procedures. Create
profiles for each platform type then
configure a payload, which consists of the
individual settings you configure for each
platform type.
ensure that the end user can be put at ease
when privacy concerns are an issue.
Q
What do you foresee for
the future of MDM?
Let’s face it, mobile operating
systems are on the rise and
allowing more work to be done
on smartphones, but PCs are
not going away and are still a preferred
choice for many knowledge worker tasks.
To make things worse, the mobile and
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