As Samsung pushes to be 'enterprise
class' and BlackBerry seeks renewed business buy-in, which platform provides
the security you need?
The BYOD phenomenon is old news, with
support from most companies. For IT organizations, that means ensuring proper
security and management over the mobile devices employees are likely to use. In
the last year,
Apple's iPhone and iPad have
become the new corporate standards due to high user satisfaction and superior
security capabilities.
But Samsung has been aggressively
promoting its SAFE (Samsung Approved for Enterprise) extensions to Android to
bolster its reach into businesses wary of Google's historic lack of concern for security and the rampant malware on Android devices.
SAFE targets the first concern. BlackBerry, once the IT darling due to its
hundreds of security capabilities, is also trying to gain corporate respect
with BlackBerry 10, which supports basic Exchange ActiveSync (EAS)
policies out of the box (a first for BlackBerry), as well as a rich set of
security features in its retooled BES 10 management server.
Then there's Windows Phone 8, the third version of Microsoft's attempt to
deliver a popular smartphone OS. It's historically given little heed to
security concerns, but Version 8 endeavors to satisfy basic business security
concerns.
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