With so many employees forced to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud computing has kept many of them productive. Using cloud technologies such as software-as-a-service apps like Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) has enabled businesses to smoothly scale up and down and support enterprise mobility. It has allowed employees to securely connect to the corporate network and collaborate using their preferred communication channels from home on their own devices.

Fast growing remote workforces enabled by ever-expanding bandwidth, and more sophisticated mobile devices are simply the new normal of modern business. But, the benefits of the new normal of enterprise mobility also come with the challenges of managing rising costs, rapidly advancing technologies, and major security risk.

We’ve now had more than three months of emergency measures in place to restrict the spread of COVID-19. Love it or hate it, remote working has become the new normal for many businesses and employees.

As we move towards the second half of 2020, we’re likely to see many of the fast-adopted changes that were put in place to support remote working become permanent fixtures of business life. With your people using a variety of corporate and personal (bring your own) devices, managing mobile device security can be a huge headache for your IT team.

As mobile security, data protection and privacy have become hot topics, one area of increasing focus is mobile app security and app data leakage. imei partners with best-in-class mobile security technology providers such as Wandera, who provide some valuable insight in this blog post.