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White Papers

Fiberlink's library of white papers examines topics and trends in mobile device management and how you can use them to keep your users productive and safe. The library includes information about enabling smartphones, best practices and a glossary for Mobile Device Management (MDM), ways to control mobility costs, best practices for data encryption, and more.

White Papers

88% of Best-in-Class companies provide their employees with secure remote mobile access to the company network, 2-times the Industry Average and 8-times Laggards.

- Aberdeen Group

The Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) offers untold potential for corporations, but also a fair amount of peril – especially for IT. The Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device will offer best-practice tips so IT can embrace BYOD with confidence.

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    The Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device

    Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) offers untold potential for corporations, but also a fair amount of peril – especially for IT. The Ten Commandments of Bring Your Own Device will offer best-practice tips so IT can embrace BYOD with confidence.

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    Document Sharing on Mobile Devices: Securing Productivity on the Go

    Smart companies are realizing a vital part of any mobile device management strategy is to mitigate risk by sealing these security holes in document sharing and finding new ways to enhance information sharing across the enterprise in a secure and compliant manner. This white paper explores the requirements for secure mobile document management, including: document security, remote wipe, selective wipe, workflows and permissions, and more.

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    Achieving True Enterprise Mobility

    Organizations need fast, low-cost solutions for enabling employees to comply with legal, corporate, and IT requirements. They need a holistic approach to enterprise mobility, as more staff bring their own devices to work and expect IT to support them-while IT maintains the security and integrity of corporate data and applications on those devices.

    Find out what CITO Research has to say about achieving true enterprise mobility through more than just Mobile Device Management (MDM).

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    Mobile Device Management: Your Guide to the Essentials and Beyond

    Why is it taking so long for businesses to officially assimilate mobile devices into their organizations? It's usually because they want to put an IT strategy for management and operation in place first. We understand that IT would like to add a degree of rigor, but the solution doesn't have to be that difficult. This guide describes twelve best practices for Mobile Device Management (MDM). The first eight principles are the essentials that every organization needs to adopt. The last four are advanced practices that will help take your organization to the next level.

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    Delivering and Managing Corporate App Stores

    The next wave of mobility is coming at us in the form of mobile applications, and the upsurge in handheld tablets has changed the game. Mobilized versions of enterprise applications are being developed for both tablets and smartphones. If your organization is serious about enabling its employees with mobile applications, it needs a way to select, distribute, and manage those applications.

    Kelton Research found that 86% of corporations plan to deploy applications this year through some type of enterprise application store. Will yours?

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    Managing Android Fragmentation

    When Google created Android as an open source platform, it allowed any and all developers to modify it as they see fit. Help Desk and end user support processes are designed with the assumption that all the users have essentially the same devices, platforms, tools, training and documentation.

    How can IT departments handle fragmentation? How can they maximize end user satisfaction and productivity while minimizing risk to the organization?

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    True SaaS for Mobility

    Consumerization of IT and mobility trends are driving the need for a new approach to manage an increasingly diverse enterprise device environment. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) enables IT to keep up with the rapid pace of change in mobility and evolve with the speed at which business is conducted today. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what MaaS is, how it works, and what's important when evaluating mobility solutions.

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    A Mobile Device Management Glossary

    This MDM Glossary will assist you with today's terminology.

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    Understanding the Role of Exchange ActiveSync in Mobile Device Management

    You can’t understand enterprise mobility without understanding the role of Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). As EAS has evolved and spread it has become an integral piece of mobility infrastructure, yet many people don’t understand its evolution, its strengths and weaknesses, or what is needed to complement EAS in order to meet today’s enterprise mobility requirements.

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    Best Practices Guide: for Mobile Device Management (MDM)

    This guide gives you best practices for Mobile Device Management (MDM) in the Enterprise that you can use now.

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    Best Practices Guide for Mobile Device Management in the Healthcare Industry

    This white paper describes best practices for MDM, including how to create a strong foundation, what to do after the foundation is in place, and what to do if you need a fortress.

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    Enabling iPhones in the Enterprise

    Right now dedicated iPhone users are insisting that their platform is secure and they want access to your corporate systems. Here are four steps needed to enable and manage their devices.

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    The Watershed Moment in FISMA 2.0

    The requirement for continuous monitoring, and its application to security for endpoints.

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    Controlling Wireless Costs with Any Connection Reporting

    Wireless spending is out of sight and out of control. Learn how Any Connection Reporting can help you manage your wireless costs.

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    Mobile Device Compliance for Financial Services Firms

    Using FFIEC Security Best Practices to Ensure that Laptops and PCs are Secure and Compliant

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    Extending Compliance to the Mobile Workforce

    Regulatory compliance is not an option–it is a cold, hard necessity. Security breaches can bring serious consequences.

    Read about some of the unique risks associated with mobile devices, and security best practices that can be used to manage these risks. It also discusses how software and services from Fiberlink can help organizations implement those best practices and extend their security policies.

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    THINKstrategies: Mobility-as-a-Service

    THINKstrategies is a strategic consulting services company and the founder of the Software-as-a-Service Showplace. This white paper describes how Mobility-as-a-Service fits in the evolution of ‘on-demand,’ ‘cloud-computing,’ pay-as-you-go services aimed at helping companies grapple with a wide array of business and information technology (IT) challenges.

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    Patch Management: Four capabilities you need, but probably don’t have

    Every organization needs to apply software updates in a timely manner to prevent security breaches.

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    Saugatuck: The Boundary-Free Enterprise

    Saugatuck Technology is an influential observer of the Software-as-a-Service marketplace. Learn about the critical role of Mobility-as-a-Service in securing and managing the emerging "Boundary-Free Enterprise."