Identity platforms & tools
Mobile Device Management (MDM)
MDM is a system that manages, monitors, and secures mobile devices accessing corporate resources. It enforces policy on devices to ensure only compliant endpoints can access identity-protected applications and data.
What Teams Run Into
BYOD complicates MDM enforcement. Personal devices access corporate resources but don't accept enrollment or policy enforcement, creating two categories of access with different security rules.
MDM policies conflict with user expectations. A device that doesn't meet policy gets blocked from work apps, users circumvent the controls, and IT loses visibility.
Device revocation doesn't correlate with identity revocation. Someone leaves, their user is deprovisioned, but their device still has cached tokens and access to cached data.
Why It Matters
Device trust is inseparable from identity trust. A valid identity on a compromised device is still a compromised device. MDM is the bridge between identity systems and device security. When MDM doesn't work or users bypass it, identity decisions become meaningless: you are granting access based on identity, but not verifying the device executing that access.
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