Afaria provides comprehensive management and security capabilities that ensure that mobile data and devices are up-to-date, reliable and secure. With Afaria, IT personnel have the level of control and visibility required to proactively manage and secure the multiple device types, applications, data and communications that are critical to frontline success, regardless of the bandwidth available. By putting control in the hands of IT experts, frontline workers are freed from the burden of management tasks, increasing user adoption and productivity.
In addition, Afaria uniquely combines mobile device management and mobile security within a single console, providing the best protection against security threats and compliance issues. Afaria is a key component of the Information Anywhere suite - a secure and scalable mobile software platform that addresses the converging IT requirements of enterprises today.
Key features
Security:
– Centrally enforce corporate security policies
– Full disc encryption for laptops
– Email and PIM encryption on handheld devices
– Over-the-air encryption
– Temporary password recovery
Central management and control:
– Management and security from a single console
– Update application and data as needed
– Manage groups or individuals
– Over-the-air software distribution
– Minimal user interaction necessary
Push email interoperability:
– OneBridge push email, Microsoft push email (SP2)
Any mobile device:
– Windows Mobile (Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0, smartphone), Windows Notebooks, RIM BlackBerry, Palm OS, Symbian
Any wireless connection:
– GPRS/EDGE/3G, WLAN (e.g. 802.11b/g, Infrared, Bluetooth)
Mobile workers are vital to an organisation's success. The laptops, PDAs and smart phones that support them are proliferating within businesses. The increasing use of a mobile workforce also brings the widespread distribution of sensitive and proprietary data outside the secure walls of a company’s headquarters. Measures that will control and protect mobile assets are therefore critical for the success of a mobile deployment. By implementing a solution that proactively manages and secures mobile data, devices and applications, mobile projects can boost an organisation’s efficiency, customer service levels and ultimately its profitability.
Afaria has been built from the ground up to address the unique challenges of frontline environments. It provides comprehensive capabilities for the proactive management and security of all the devices, applications, data and communications critical to frontline success, regardless of the bandwidth available. This improves the reliability and usability of mobile devices, thereby increasing user adoption.
Afaria is an enterprise-grade, highly scalable solution with a central web-based console that allows IT personnel to control a host of key functions from a standard browser. With Afaria's ability to tie into enterprise directories, these functions provide everything necessary to extend an organisation's management and security capabilities to any device in any location.
Afaria also provides enterprise-ready security features that protect mobile data and devices. When these security capabilities are coupled with Afaria's robust management capabilities, IT personnel can increase the efficient management of any mobile deployment whilst ensuring that security policies are enforced and devices remain updated. This combined management and security solution provides the best protection against the mobile security threats and compliance issues that are so prevalent today.
Afaria is a key component of the Information Anywhere Suite, which addresses converging IT requirements by offering a secure and scalable mobile software platform.
Mobile devices operate in an extremely vulnerable computing environment, where security gaps can exist, the risk of intrusion is high, and security controls are inconsistent at best and often unenforceable. Government regulations relating to data privacy and encryption are also becoming stricter, and can even result in fines for non-compliance. It is therefore imperative that IT and security experts manage and protect sensitive information, and enforce compliance centrally - rather than leaving the burden of security to the mobile device end user.
Afaria uniquely combines security and systems management functionality within a single console. It enables IT personnel to manage security requirements centrally. This includes enforcing power-on password, updating signature files and antivirus engines, and managing the configuration of the device. Afaria also increases the efficiency of updating and enforcing management and security policies by enabling all necessary tasks to occur during a single connection.
Management
Maintaining the reliability and security of data and devices in frontline situations can be very challenging. These environments are diverse, complex and often beyond direct, onsite IT control. IT personnel must be able to proactively manage all the devices, applications, data and communications that are critical to the success of mobile workers. Organisations must take a centralised approach to management and security, providing IT staff with the control and visibility needed, whilst empowering mobile workers to be successful with the information and applications needed to carry out their jobs.
Specifically designed to address frontline management needs, Afaria provides IT personnel with a set of capabilities that allow applications to be centrally distributed, installed and maintained. Afaria can also automatically manage routine system management tasks, whilst supporting all of the devices that an enterprise is likely to need - including laptops, handheld devices (such as Windows Mobile devices, Palm, smart phones) and many other mobile devices.
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