Enterprise Mobility & Security (EMS) for Office 365

What Is EMS for Office 365?

In this mobile-first, cloud-first era, questions around security dominate the conversations about moving to the cloud. EMS provides an identity-driven security solution that offers a holistic approach to security challenges by not only protecting the organization but also identifying breaches before they cause damage.

How Do You Know If EMS Might Be a Fit for Your Organization?

As with most solutions, EMS is built to solve real problems that organizations are facing in order to help them be more efficient, productive, and secure. Below are some issues that many IT organizations face, and EMS is specifically built to address these problems:

How to help users who have too many passwords to keep track of them all
How to secure data across mobile devices
How to manage BYOD
How to ensure sensitive data is protected, even on users’ mobile devices
How to create and enforce proactive threat protection

How Does EMS for Office 365 Address These Issues?

EMS is a rather robust solution. However, in a nutshell, below is a list of the ways in which EMS addresses the organizational concerns listed above.

Identity Management

Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Cloud applications
  - Azure supports SSO for over 2,500 SaaS application
- On-Prem applications
  - Using Microsoft Identity Manager
Multi-Factor Authentication
- Provide users an extra layer of security – force users to prove their identity using password in a combination with mobile phone (app/text/email)
Advanced Reporting
- Track SSO utilization and identify anomalies
Self-Service Password Reset
- With write-back capabilities
- Users can reset their own passwords, reducing Help Desk calls

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Microsoft Intune
Manage all mobile devices in the mobile ecosystem
Utilize Mobile Application Management (MAM) without requiring devices to be enrolled
Manage corporate data on user owned device
Utilize the same Office Applications used on-prem

Information Protection – Formerly Called Rights Management

Classify, label, and protect data
Apply persistent protection which travels with the data
Enable safe sharing

Identify Driven Security

Microsoft Threat Advanced Analytics
- Protection from advanced targeted attacks by applying user and entity behavior analytics

If you find yourself facing any of these issues in your IT organization, I strongly suggest looking into EMS from Microsoft. We would be happy to walk you through any questions you might have about the solution or talk about how it could improve your specific environment. Contact us today.