Containerization: The Obvious Choice for BYOD and BYOD/PC
There’s been a good deal of talk lately about secure containers, specifically around mobile. For instance, late last month Samsung and Good Technology announced a strategic partnership that combined Good’s secure container and Good-secured apps with Samsung KNOX hardware and OS security. In addition, Blackberry’s BES10, which is currently making news in Australia, allows for MDM of iOS and Android devices, but it also includes a secure container known as Secure Work Space.
Often known exclusively as a mobile security concept, containerization (also sometimes referred to as dual persona) is a solution that creates an encrypted data store or container on a device. The goal of this kind of solution is to provide an organization with a way to keep corporate applications and their associated data segregated and protected on an employee’s mobile device.
When it comes to implementing a BYOD policy, containerization is a obvious choice because it addresses two of the biggest issues presented by BYOD: ensuring secure access to corporate networks, apps, and data, no matter what OS they’re running, and keeping personal employee and corporate data separate. Secure containers truly separates personal and company data.
More than Mobile
In most cases, the definition of containerization doesn’t extend to include anything besides smartphones, however the same security concept can be applied to PCs. In fact, the same concept is being applied—check out some of the ways containerization is being used across industries like manufacturing and education—and should continue to be applied to PCs.
Consider for a moment a company’s BYOD policy. Although Android and iPhone are consistently a talked about topic in IT, the “D” in BYOD does not always stand for “smartphone.” In fact, Gartner reports that employees use their own desktops (47%) and laptops (41%) for work almost as often as their smartphones (55%). So if containerization is a nature choice for BYOD security and management, it should stand to reason that these secure containers could help solve the issues presented by BYOD/PC.
Containerization for PCs by Moka5
With Moka5’s containerization for PCs, organizations can take apps and data, put them together, and deploy them with a set of security policies to a number of different end-points. However, Moka5 does not just deploy these secure containers, it also manages them so that you can update the container, change the security policies around them, and even end of life them.
Interested in learning more about Moka’s secure containers for PC or Mac? Read more about our 7 Layers of Security or find out how to try Moka5 for free today.
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