Egnyte Rolls Out Mobile Management Suite

Egnyte
Inc. announced its Mobile
Data Management Suite, giving enterprises control over corporate
data through a variety of device and file management strategies.

This offering enables management of the
full range of end user devices in the workplace while allowing IT
departments to maintain complete control over corporate data.

Employees are integrating their own
laptops, smartphones and tablets into work routines to share, edit
and review documents both in and out of the office. A Gartner report
states that by 2017, half of employers will require employees to
supply their own device for work purposes. Additionally, industry
analyst firm Ovum Research
found that over 57.1% of all full-time employees use a personal
device to access corporate data. This increased use has led to a
corresponding increase in worker productivity.

The BYOD trend has also raised security
concerns with respect to controlling where corporate data resides and
who has access to it – the same report found that almost 80% of BYOD
activity is still going unmanaged in the workplace. And while mobile
device management solutions have arisen to tackle the adoption of
smartphones and tablets, the approach can be heavy-handed, resulting
in securing the entire device instead of just its corporate data.

In addition, corporate data resides on
employee laptops, which can translate into big headaches – and big
costs – when an unencrypted laptop is misplaced or stolen. A Ponemon
Institute study reports that 70% of the more than 86,000 laptops
lost in 2011 were not encrypted, and that the average cost of each
unencrypted lost laptop to an organization was $56,165. Costs
associated with a data breach represent 80% of the total cost of a
lost laptop, compared to 2% for replacing just the computer.
Encryption can reduce the cost of a lost laptop by more than $20,000,
on average.

Egnyte Mobile Data Management Suite
This suite gives enterprise IT
departments the ability to allow employees to use their own laptops
and mobile devices in the work environment while enabling them to
maintain tight control over corporate data and minimize costs.

Features include:

• A Device Control Panel that
  provides a central view of all end user devices connected to a
  company’s account. Administrators can view information about the
  user, device type, last time of access etc. and can take corrective
  actions such as disconnecting or wiping a device from the control
  panel in the event the device is compromised. And users can view
  their own devices, allowing for self-service when needed.

• Local File Encryption on
  smartphones and tablets prevents data from being accessed from the
  mobile file system, by limiting access to authorized users using the
  application.

• Two-Step Login Verification
  enforces a second factor for login in addition to username/password
  verification. The second factor can be sent in the form of a phone
  call, passcode sent via text message or push notification to a
  smartphone. This two-step login can be enforced whether the user is
  logging in from a laptop, smartphone or tablet.   

• Certificate Based Device Trust
  allows only laptops, phones and tablets with a valid security
  certificate to access the company’s file sharing service, preventing
  access from unauthorized devices.

• Remote Wipe of Files from the
  device control panel enables the initiation and verification of a
  remote wipe of all Egnyte file contents in cases where a device is
  lost or stolen.

"The Advanced Mobile Security
Mobile Wipe Feature takes the risk out of BYOD and makes it easy for
us to keep track of where our sensitive files are and who is viewing
them," said Orlando Castillo, Bulova
Corporation. "Our employees are productive and get to use
the devices they prefer while we can control our data instead of the
entire device.  Management is happy because we have a way to
ensure that we can keep company data secure."

"Egnyte offers our customers
the option of using Egnyte in conjunction with their MDM solution or
using our new capabilities as a MDM-light solution," said
Vineet Jain, Egnyte CEO. "With the native security and
management capabilities, IT departments can reduce costs by getting
everything they need in one place. More importantly, they can be
confident their files and data are safe."