is problem, your MDM must have a system to keep the personal and professional data separate. It allows mobile devices to operate in two different modes: Personal and Work. That way, the employees can keep their personal data out of the legalities and the professional data under standard security measures.
But to have a proper GDPR in this model is important. Two main problems include ensuring the protection of user’s personal data from the policies and gaining the consent of the users to add two modes to their devices. However, both are important elements to ensure that the devices abide by GDPR standards and do not cause any potential risk to the company.
3Access the Data Protection Impact of Your MDM
It’s important that you keep on accessing and analyzing the data protection impact of your MDM solution. This helps you identify the loopholes and risks in your system, giving you the time and bandwidth to solve them before they turn into unsolvable issues.
It’s more of a continuous analysis of your MDM to help solve the issues even before they occur on the user’s end.
4Evaluate Coverage of MDM Solution
To gain a better understanding of how well your MDM is working, it's important to evaluate its coverage. By coverage, we mean the elements of your business and user data managed under the MDM. Two such examples include Device Inventory and Network Logs.
Device Inventory is a centralized dashboard for the administrator to access the list of all the registered devices along with their details. This makes it easier for you to access the data about any device. Network logs, on the other hand, are the record of all the transactions or events taking place on individual devices.
By having a better understanding of your MDM’s coverage, you can make smart GDPR mobile device management decisions.
5Apply MDM Solution to Secure Personal Data
Lastly, it’s necessary to make the most out of the MDM solution by applying the necessary security measures to protect the user’s personal data. This restricts the user's actions and auto-collection of impermissible data.
Some of the MDM solutions to comply with the GDPR for mobile apps are as follows:
- Enforce the user to set a PIN or password for the device. It reduces the misuse of devices on a generic level as the access of the device is dependent on the entry of the defined password.
- Have a configured remote access to the devices in a way that you can lock the device remotely and wipe the sensitive data in case of unforeseen situations.
- Set up network settings to reduce the connection to unprotected networks and ensuring logging of all events and transactions made over the server.
- You can force the devices to update the system to the latest versions to help ensure that they don’t miss out on any important security updates and that they stay on a consistent version.
- By restricting access and allowing the usage of certain apps, you can reduce the security risks by a great deal.
3 Other Methods to Protect Data in Mobile Devices
Although MDM is a great technique to protect data in mobile devices per GDPR standards, there are some additional methods to do the needful which include:
Sandboxing and Encryption Solutions
Sandboxing is a process of creating a mimic environment as that of the end-user operating system for code running and analysis. It keeps the detected code vulnerabilities separate instead of disrupting the whole end-user environment. Also, having encryption solutions in place can help the transfer, storage, and deployment of sensitive data in a safer way.
It's important to educate your employees on the significant role they play in ensuring the company’s security and data protection. To do so, set up extensive security training plans to keep them posted about the latest trends and cybersecurity practices.
Incident and Recovery Plan
Have a practical and effective incident and recovery plan in place to help deal with the security breaches. The incident plan lays out the practices to keep your data secure in case of a security breach. Whereas the recovery plan outlines the steps 