FAMOC ensures an unparalleled level of security support for US government agency mobile infrastructure

 

Challenge

A US government agency required a highly secure mobile device management solution to radically improve the safety of their mobile communications.

The agency required a solution:

  • With top quality security features on the server and handsets
  • To introduce a very high level of data security on the handsets, including  data encryption, and data auto-destruct policies
  • To ensure that sensitive server data is accessed only via secure channels within their premises
  • To block any services on the phone that might pose a potential threat to security
  • With high scalability

 

Solutions

The agency selected FancyFon's mobile device management (MDM) solution, FAMOC, providing an unrivalled level of security support across multiple mobile platforms. FAMOC configuration and monitoring tools provide effective protection against threats such as viruses, hacking, tapping conversations, loss of data stored on the phone, or even loss of the device itself. The system ensures secure communication between server and mobile devices, protects stored data, and enables seamless corporate policy deployment with differentiated access rules for groups and shared data, including pre-defined user profiles. After successful test trials, FAMOC was rolled out to provide MDM for several thousand government mobile devices.

Benefits

With FancyFon’s MDM solution, the government agency is able to fully control its mobile environment and avoid potential risks. The main advantage of the solution is that the complex processes associated with the appropriate configuration of phones do not affect the end user. FAMOC puts full control into the hands of the administration team, minimizing end-user effort. The administrator has full remote access to the device, and is able to perform bulk operations, and control all of the processes. If a violation to a security policy is detected, the administrator is alerted to the irregularity.

In order to fully secure the agency’s mobile infrastructure, FAMOC provides:

  • Protected VPN communication
  • Advanced WiFi connectivity based on EAP-TLS encryption, with personal certificates
  • Password and auto-lock policies
  • Device memory and memory card encryption
  • Application installation restrictions
  • Access point, browser, WiFi and Bluetooth restrictions
  • Keep-alive functionality for essential applications
  • OTA wipe policy in cases of lost or stolen devices
  • Encrypted backup/restore sessions