How Does Scalefusion MDM Help With Data Privacy?
Why is Data Privacy?
There are numerous definitions of ‘data privacy.’ People (customers, employees, anyone) need to know what personal data organisations are collecting about them and how they are using it, to put it simply. Of course, this is a simplified approach to the subject, but it serves to set the stage.
Data privacy encompasses much more than just the security and protection of personal information. It all comes down to how organisations use personal data. Personal data must be processed in an ethical and legal manner by organisations.
This could mean not spamming customers with unwanted SMS marketing messages, but it could also mean not sharing personal information with third parties without their consent. It does not mean that marketing is now prohibited by data privacy laws, but it does mean that organisations must be transparent about what personal data they collect and how it will be used. Many organisations recognise the significant risks of cyber attacks and data breaches, but they do not understand what else is required to protect what is referred to as “individual rights and freedoms.”
Why is Data Privacy important?
Business Asset Management:
Regulatory Compliance:
A company’s most valuable asset is its data. We live in a data economy, where companies place enormous value on collecting, sharing, and using data about customers or users, particularly from social media. Transparency in how businesses request consent to keep personal data, adhere to their privacy policies, and manage the data that they’ve collected is critical to building trust with customers who naturally expect privacy as a human right.
A company’s most valuable asset is its data. We live in a data economy, where companies place enormous value on collecting, sharing, and using data about customers or users, particularly from social media. Transparency in how businesses request consent to keep personal data, adhere to their privacy policies, and manage the data that they’ve collected is critical to building trust with customers who naturally expect privacy as a human right.
Data Privacy is NOT Data Security
Businesses are sometimes perplexed by the terminology and mistakenly believe that protecting personal and sensitive data from hackers entitles them to automatic compliance with data privacy regulations. This is not true. Data security guards against external attackers and malicious insiders, whereas data privacy governs how data is collected, shared, and used.
How Does Scalefusion MDM Help With Data Privacy?
Scalefusion is a device and endpoint management solution that concentrates on minimizing the IT effort required to manage a large number of corporate endpoints. Scalefusion allows your company’s IT administrators to configure extensive policies and remotely deploy them to your diverse endpoints, allowing you to strengthen the privacy of your business-critical data.
Here are some of Scalefusion’s capabilities that assist businesses in strengthening their data privacy:
Scalefusion is a device and endpoint management solution that concentrates on minimizing the IT effort required to manage a large number of corporate endpoints. Scalefusion allows your company’s IT administrators to configure extensive policies and remotely deploy them to your diverse endpoints, allowing you to strengthen the privacy of your business-critical data.
Here are some of Scalefusion’s capabilities that assist businesses in strengthening their data privacy:
- BYOD User Privacy
Organizations that allow their employees to use personal devices for work must take special precautions to ensure that their corporate data is secure and that their employees’ personal data is not compromised. Containerization enables company IT administrators to separate employees’ personal data from corporate data by creating a work profile to which various company policies can be applied exclusively. Scalefusion MDM enables businesses to take advantage of containerization.
It is the optimal solution for businesses to strike a balance between securing corporate data with stringent policies and preserving the user experience.
- Transferring files securely
Since most businesses around the world rely on remote working, over-the-air file transfers and reliance on cloud storage have expanded. Scalefusion MDM’s content management capabilities enable businesses to securely transfer files. Company IT administrators can share safe and verified files in a variety of formats, such as documents, videos, and presentations, with multiple people from the organisation, regardless of their location.
- Access control restrictions
Scalefusion enables IT administrators to push relevant business apps and content to employees’ devices. Not every employee requires access to every piece of information available. The remote working and bring your own device (BYOD) management trends expose a larger attack surface for external security threats. Access restrictions such as pushing a limited set of secure business apps and files and restricting the use of untrusted websites can go a long way toward protecting private business data.
Scalefusion enables company IT administrators to configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies that prevent employees from copying sensitive business information from professional apps to personal apps on BYO devices.
- Detection of compliance violations
When it comes to data privacy, prevention is the best way to go, but businesses should not overlook curative practices. Scalefusion MDM enables company IT administrators to track and constantly monitor their diverse endpoints’ usage, location, and health.
You can use extensive reports to scrutinise device vitals and usage patterns in order to detect compliance violations and suspicious activity. Workflows can also be created and scheduled to generate alerts for a variety of activities such as geofence-based compliance alerts, data usage compliance alerts, and so on.
- Remote device lock & data deletion
The loss or theft of mobile devices is a constant threat to allowing employees to work remotely using these devices. Mobile devices are small and easily misplaced. If your employee mistakenly misplaces his smartphone, which contains sensitive information such as patient health data, business finance plans, and etc, it can be a source of data breaches.
Scalefusion enables IT administrators to quickly locate lost devices using GPS tracking and configure remote device locking followed by remote data wiping. Even in the event of an unfortunate event, this ensures that your sensitive information does not fall into the wrong hands.
Final Thoughts
We live in an era of ‘big data,’ where every process revolves around information. Data privacy is no longer an option; businesses must focus on mitigating risk factors and implementing tools and technologies that can strengthen their data privacy. Scalefusion MDM is a powerful device and endpoint management solution that assists businesses in tailoring the use of their devices and access to confidential data in order to reduce insider threats.
Sources:
Shambhavi Awate. (2022, September 21). Data Privacy in 2022: Here’s What You Need To Know. Scalefusion Blog | MDM, EMM, Product Updates, Thought Leadership & SaaS; Scalefusion Blog.
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