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Curriculum/Cybersecurity/End User Device Management/Mobile Device Management
35 minBeginner

Mobile Device Management

After this lesson, you will be able to: Understand BYOD, MDM tools, remote wipe, and mobile app security.

The phone in your pocket holds work email, internal apps, MFA tokens. MDM (Mobile Device Management) is how organizations control what corporate data lives on personal devices.

Prerequisites:Endpoint Protection Platforms

BYOD vs corporate-issued

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), personal device used for work. Cheap, popular, hard to control. Corporate, company owns the device. Easier to lock down, more expensive. Hybrid, corporate work profile on personal device (Android Work Profile, iOS supervised mode).

💡 MDM capabilities

Enforce device passcode + encryption. Push apps. Restrict app store. Configure VPN/email. Remote wipe (full or work profile only). Geolocate. Detect jailbreak/root.

Mobile threat surface

  1. 1

    1. Phishing (SMS, messengers).

  2. 2

    2. Malicious apps (sideloaded or store-bypassed).

  3. 3

    3. Network attacks on public WiFi.

  4. 4

    4. Lost/stolen device → unencrypted data.

  5. 5

    5. Privilege escalation via OS bug (rare on patched).

Major MDMs

Microsoft Intune (M365 native). Jamf (Apple specialist). VMware Workspace ONE. Google Endpoint Management. Mosyle.

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