Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Your MDM platform reports device location. What it does not tell you is how much of the shift that location data actually covers. Android distinguishes between foreground location and background location at the API level. Foreground location APIs deliver updates while the requesting application is the active process on the device screen. The moment the … Continue reading Android MDM Background Location Tracking: Why Foreground-Only APIs Miss Most of the Shift

Your BYOD policy permits employees to access corporate applications from personal devices. The security team agreed to this because blocking personal device access was creating friction that hurt productivity. The IT team agreed because enforcing full MDM enrollment on personal devices was operationally impractical and legally contested in some jurisdictions. What neither team thought through … Continue reading Access Layer Authentication Does Not Extend to Data Exfiltration Controls.

When did your MDM platform last produce a complete list of every application installed on every enrolled device? Not the applications you deployed through the MDM. Every application currently installed on each managed device, including what was installed after enrollment, outside the managed profile, or through channels your deployment policy did not account for. For … Continue reading Device Enrollment State and Device Application Inventory Are Two Different Datasets.

A security incident investigation is three days in. A privileged user accessed a production database server on a Tuesday afternoon. Something changed on that server that caused a downstream service failure two days later. The authentication log shows the login event. Username, timestamp, source IP, session duration. 23 minutes. The session ended cleanly. Nothing else … Continue reading SSH Session Logging and Authentication Logging Are Not the Same Control.

Your user authenticated this morning. They presented the right credentials. They completed the MFA challenge. Your access control system granted the session. Here is what your authentication stack evaluated during that process: the identity of the person requesting access. Here is what it did not evaluate: the security posture of the device they used to … Continue reading MFA Verified the User. Nobody Verified the Device.

When businesses move to remote operations, teams tend to prioritize fast internet and collaboration tools. However, problems arise when sensitive data ends up on the personal smartphones of employees. This is where MDM becomes critical.  MDM is a system that helps organizations manage and secure the mobile devices their teams use for work. It sets … Continue reading How Mobile Device Management is Powering the Future of Remote Work

Are your employees’ personal devices putting your organization’s data at risk? With hybrid work becoming the norm, people are accessing work apps from home, cafes, or even while traveling. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) makes work more flexible and convenient, but it also comes with real security risks. Personal devices often lack the protections that … Continue reading How to Secure BYOD Devices in a Hybrid Workplace Using Akku Mobile Device Manager

Your employees are mobile. Your data is too. And so are the risks. In an era where work happens from coffee shops, airport lounges, and living rooms, managing how mobile devices interact with your business is non-negotiable. With a sharp rise in remote work and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) environments, modern businesses need more … Continue reading What Is Mobile Device Management? A Rundown of MDM’s Meaning, Uses & Benefits