“By 2020, 60 percent of digital businesses will suffer major service failures due to the inability of it security teams to manage digital risk.” – Gartner

There is a momentous change happening in the IT world – what was once limited to the confines of an on-premise world has now extended to the cloud. Mobile devices and cloud based technologies have reinvented the working of companies -everything from decision making to customer service, and have also resulted in the exponential rise in the mobile workforce.

The need for managing and protecting identity, devices and data in cloud era – an introduction.

Prior to the cloud era, information and data were contained within your network perimeter and were under your control. But now, the information that you need to protect, lives on the devices which are diverse and often outside your organization’s network perimeter. This makes your business data and applications easily accessible and bring them under the risk of unauthorized access.

Moreover, cybersecurity attacks that pose a threat to the entire IT infrastructure, are not only growing but are also evolving every day.

No doubt, a business when injected with mobility, leads to enhanced employee engagement and more tightly connected network, while providing cost savings and adding flexibility to the workplace. But workers alone do not become mobile, their devices too become mobile, which generate some blind spots in an organization’s IT landscape, helping attackers gain a foothold in the enterprise systems.

Mobility also leads to increased and easy interaction with other users, devices, apps and data which further enhances threat of attack vectors and malicious activities.

So, the information security teams and IT infrastructure of the digitally transforming organizations, need advanced solutions that can not only help them adapt to the changing landscape but also deal with the increasingly evolving threat environment.

What benefits Enterprise Management Solutions can provide?

Enterprise Management Solutions (EMS) are the key to the future of IT defense as they not only help an organization to build and manage a secure IT infrastructure, but also help it to reduce the impact of social engineering attacks.

EMS is an integrated set of solutions that are designed to work together with your on-premise investments. It eliminates the need for costly and complicated integration efforts across point capabilities and integrates everything you need into a suite.

MDSC1 powered Enterprise Management Solutions in UAE come with integrated layers of data protection to secure your corporate data, on the go. Our smart protection suite is an intelligent combination of Enterprise Mobility + Security. It provides an identity-driven solution for addressing the security challenges in this cloud-first era and helps you protect your organization, identify breaches before they cause any damage.

Below are the tips that will help secure your identity from advanced targeted attacks.

1. Improve visibility and strengthen control

   Empower your IT infrastructure to track, monitor, and manage mobile devices, apps, and data through a single console, as a single view of users from desktop to mobile device gives you a clear view of threats and helps you to identify them in advance.

   With Azure Active Directory, you get identity protection capabilities like –

   • Secure single sign-on to cloud and on-premises apps
   • Built in multi-factor authentication
   • Advanced security reporting
   • Risk-based conditional access
   • Privileged identity management

   With EMS, you also get Microsoft Cloud App Security, a service that gives you comprehensive control and protection for your cloud apps and deep visibility into user and data activity. It does not require any agents, as the information is collected from your firewalls and proxies to give you complete visibility and context for cloud usage and shadow IT.

   So, you can use it to protect your company when users work with critical business data.

2. Detect attacks before they cause damage and remediate

   Identify weak points in your organization and uncover any suspicious activity with Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics, in the cloud and on-premises. To prevent damage, you need to adapt as fast as your attackers. With the ready to analyze intelligence of behavioral analytics and anomaly detection technology, you receive verified alerts, get the ability to review on attack timeline, and continual updates that enable you to adapt to the changing nature of your users and business.

   So, with behavioral analytics, machine learning, secure your corporate files and data while freeing your employees to get their work done on the go.

3. Safeguard your company’s data from mistakes made by users

   Today, most of the employees use mobile devices for both personal and official tasks. For an IT leader, it is important to make sure that his employees remain productive while preventing any company data loss, even in the case where devices are not being managed by him.

   With Azure Information Protection (AIP), you get the ability to classify and label your data while protecting it. This enables secure file sharing both internally and externally. AIP gives you the ability to encrypt all your files and use logging and reporting to monitor, analyze and control over shared data.

   You can use Microsoft Intune Mobile App Management (MAM) to prevent your data loss via mobile devices. It gives you a unique ability to manage Office mobile apps without even requiring device enrollment, as Intune MAM policies can be used independently of any mobile-device management (MDM) solution.

   Thus, EMS gives you the flexibility to manage devices or apps or a combination of both.

You just focus on your business and leave everything to us, as we provide you with specialist security solutions. Our experts help you with streamlined deployment and management of your IT infrastructure that helps you to be more productive, better managed, and more secure in today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world. Deploy Enterprise Management Solutions by MDSC1 today and stay secure.

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