Any technology investment requires a commitment to deploy, optimize, and provide ongoing operational maintenance. However, initial deployments involving mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management (MAM), along with enabling policies governing the usage of these solutions, are rewarding but have become a challenging deployment process.
In this article, we'll explore how organizations can achieve successful deployment of Microsoft Intune while discussing its challenges and benefits. Intune's proactive approach toward mobile device environment protection helps organizations reach their goals with a solid return on investment, all while overcoming various challenges in mobile threat defense, endpoint access, and advanced threat analytics.
Like any IT platform deployment, there are always challenges. Microsoft Intune suite also has its share of challenges.
Before, during, and after the Microsoft Intune deployment, organizations need to create a list of success factors to govern their strategy for MDM/MAM. Just deploying MDM with Intune is only partially successful. Like other IT operations platforms, Intune requires several entities to be configured, updated, and monitored well after deploying the first device.
Here is a list of success factors organizations still strive towards when deploying Intune.
Reducing the cost of managing devices and application deployment is a cornerstone of Intune. Combining separate MDM/MAM solutions helps lower costs and operational complexity. Intune also helps organizations future-proof their MDM/MAM for additional devices.
Without a success factor for cost savings and operational complexity reduction, deploying Intune could become a lesser priority.
Intune is an adaptive security control enabler. This platform helps an organization maintain compliance by hardening devices, enforcing user policies, and protecting organization data. However, users find Intune and its capability intrusive, challenging to access, and the reason for slow application performance on their devices.
Some organizations struggle to balance the need to be secure and compliant with the need to reduce help desk tickets from users who are unhappy with the organization's MDM/MAM strategy. However, for an organization to conduct business in finance, healthcare, or government, MDM/MAM must ensure the firm complies with privacy mandates.
Mobile devices, iPads, and laptops are favorite targets of hackers. Hackers often rely on these devices not to be connected to the corporate network for some time. This time of disconnection leads to these devices lacking recent software updates, making them vulnerable. Organizations benefit from MDM/MAM from Intune because the ability to validate a device before allowing access to resources is essential to maintaining proper compliance levels.
Like other IT operations platforms, monitoring is a critical function for all organizations after the deployment of Intune. Organizations must staff and budget for proper monitoring, incident response, and remediation. A significant component in maintaining positive compliance status is having an effective monitoring capability with experienced corporate resources.
Without an effective monitoring strategy, the dollars and time spent by human capital resources led to investments that did not produce the expected results.
Microsoft Intune delivers many benefits for device security to their customers, including:
These benefits help organizations maximize their investment in Microsoft Intune and prove their overall MDM and MAM strategy in the future.
Deploying Intune is more than just an IT operations project. Intune becomes part of the organization's ability to conduct business in regulated markets, provide a secure platform for users to access data and applications anywhere, and lower the organization's risk.
Organizations must optimize and fund initial deployment planning, policy enablement, and post-deployment monitoring and remediation to recognize Intune's financial, operational, and compliance success. Access to skilled resources is another major component of a successful Intune transformation.
Organizations struggling to staff their Intune pre- and post-operation tasks will benefit from a relationship with managed security service providers (MSSP) like Hypershift.
Hypershift's experienced Microsoft consultants specializing in Intune, Microsoft 365, and Azure AD can assist organizations with every MDM/MAM transformation phase. This provider's ability to help organizations plan the deployment, provide examples of device user policies, and the ability to augment internal company resources, including security operations teams with their experienced resource, makes this partner the perfect choice.
Hypershift provides IT services with extensive collective expertise, offering customized solutions to your company's needs. Our team is committed to delivering value by combining industry knowledge with current IT trends to create customized solutions for our clients.
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