Sophos Mobile Control

Overview:

iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows smartphones—whether they're company issued or personal devices, chances are they're using your corporate network. You have to secure these devices and keep the sensitive business data that's flowing safe and sound.

We can help make it easy for you to enforce a consistent security policy for smartphones used in your business. We'll let you control their security features and even remotely lock and wipe them if they get lost.

Give your users the latest mobile technology while keeping your organization's data safe. We help you secure, monitor and control devices on your network with over-the-air control and a self-service portal that makes mobile protection easy.

What you can do with Sophos Mobile Control:

Keep corporate data safe by applying security policies

• Lets you turn on the built-in security features of iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android, Windows Mobile 6.x devices, including any OS encryption or password protection.
• Provides remote over-the-air lock. It can even wipe lost or stolen devices, all from the central web console.
• Tamper detection means Mobile Control knows if it’s removed from a device and can block company email access. It can also identify rooted Android devices.
• Ensures that only registered devices that meet your policies (like minimum required password length) can access corporate email by using Exchange Active Sync Proxy.
• Lets you control application use. For example, you can block a time-wasting game or inappropriate application.

Easily install and maintain controls with over-the-air setup and a web console

• Monitors and controls security features on mobile devices from a centralized, web-based console.
• Deploys security updates and policies over the air through the web portal, letting you maintain mobile devices anytime, anywhere—so users don't have to visit the Help Desk.
• Lets you prove your corporate compliance with easy inventory and reporting tools.
• Tracks and reports on all registered devices, letting you drill down to their individual configuration settings, serial numbers, model numbers, hardware details and more.

Reduce the IT burden with a self-service portal for your users

• Allows users to register their own devices, meaning they can use their own personal phone—and that you can keep an eye on their security and make sure they're compliant.
• Lets users choose to remote lock or wipe their devices without having to contact the Help Desk.
• Now available for download in the Android Market.

Key benefits

• Protects iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Mobile devices
• Gives you a central role-based web console to distribute consistent policies
• Controls which smartphones and tablets have access to company email
• Lets you remotely lock and wipe devices to prevent data loss and ensure compliance
• Allows users to register and protect their devices through a simple self-service portal
• Lets you manage installed apps on a device from a central console and deploy and remove as needed

Features & Benefits:

Keep your data safe and comply with regulations
With Sophos® Mobile Control, we let your users work with flexibility while on the move—no matter which mobile device they have:

• Protects your confidential data by letting you configure mobile devices in a consistent and safe way, including password policies and screen locking
• Lets admins or users remotely lock devices and wipe data in seconds if a mobile device is lost or stolen
• Manages access to your organization's email using a secure proxy to Exchange ActiveSync, making sure only compliant devices have email server access
• Controls the use of features or apps, like games or Bluetooth, that could lead to productivity concerns, data breaches or compliance issues
• Tamper detection means Mobile Control knows if it's removed from a device and can block company email access. It can also identify rooted Android devices
• Tracks and reports device data traffic, including WiFi, 3G or roaming use
• Now available for download in the Android Market

Manage iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Mobile
Say yes when people want to use the latest mobile devices, safe in the knowledge you can keep them secure:

• Lets you enable the security features on devices. This means only users that are compliant can access your organization's email servers
• Lets IT administrators manage all supported smartphones and tablets from one web-based console, regardless of operating system, service provider, network or location of the device
• Provides over-the-air setup and configuration so you can control devices from anywhere, at any time

Mobile security that saves you time
We make things much simpler for your IT staff and provide a good experience for your users, too:

• Lets users handle routine tasks themselves with a self-service portal that helps them activate a new device and lock (or even wipe) a lost one
• Gives you an at-a-glance mobile inventory by recording all registered devices, configuration settings, serial numbers, model numbers and hardware details
• Manages apps on devices, letting you deploy pre-configured apps over-the-air. You can also uninstall applications in exactly the same way

System requirements:

• Windows 2003 or 2008 Server
• Java JDK 1.6_20
• MS SQL Server 2005 or 2008

Supported Mobile Operating Systems

• Apple iOS 4 or higher
• Google Android 2.2 or higher
• Windows Mobile 6.1 or higher

Required Components

• Connection to the Mobile Control SMS server (included while software is in maintenance)
• Registration in the Apple iOS Developer Enterprise Program to manage iPhone and iPad

Documentation:

Sophos Mobile Control Data Sheet (.PDF)