Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Mobile Device Management enables businesses to manage large scale deployments.

Several (commercial) MDM-Server in conjunction with the OS give IT departments the ability to securely enroll devices in an enterprise environment, wirelessly configure and update settings, monitor compliance with corporate policies, and remotely wipe or lock managed devices.

• iPhone Configuration Utility
• Apple Profile Manager Mac OS X Server Lion

• Tarmac from Equinux
• Casper Suite
• MobileIron
• Airwatch
• good for enterprise
• Blackberry [[http://us.blackberry.com/enterprise/products/bes12.html]BES 12]]
• Afaria from Sybase
• unitexx
• Zenprise
• Boxtone
• AmTelNet

MDM and jailbreak?

• http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2010/12/jailbreaks-iphone-ipad-and-mdm/
• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/121010-apple-ios-jailbreak.html
• http://blog.maas360.com/archives/endpointmanagement/the-intersection-of-mobile-device-management-and-security-on-smartphones/

AppleiOS

AndrOid

Symbian

BlackBerry

Windows Mobile

Links

• good comparison of MDM