1. What is Mobile Risk Management?
2. How do Fixmo Sentinel and Fixmo SafeZone help organizations manage the risks associated with mobile devices?
3. What is Fixmo’s relationship with the U.S. Government's National Security Agency (NSA)?
4. How does Fixmo SafeZone assist organizations in embracing personal-liable mobile devices to address the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend?
5. Is Fixmo SafeZone FIPS certified?
6. I currently use AutoBerry or AutoBES as a U.S. Government Agency. What do I need to know about Fixmo and Fixmo Sentinel?
7. What are Fixmo Tools and Apps and how do they relate to Mobile Risk Management?
1. What is Mobile Risk Management?
Mobile risk management (MRM) is an emerging category of technologies that empower organizations to identify, mitigate and manage the risks associated with mobile devices in the workplace. MRM helps organizations go beyond traditional mobile device management (MDM) practices, which have primarily relied on risk avoidance or control tactics that limit how devices can be used by employees, to help them exercise the full potential of mobility while protecting corporate data and ensuring regulatory compliance. Using a “risk mitigation” philosophy, MRM solutions enable organizations to support a wide range of mobile devices and embrace the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend by taking a holistic approach to MDM, corporate data security, mobile application management (MAM), malware prevention, IT compliance reporting and more. Select here to learn more about Mobile Risk Management and how it applies to your business.
Fixmo Sentinel and Fixmo SafeZone are designed to help organizations identify, mitigate and manage the risks associated with deploying both corporate-liable and personal-liable (“bring your own device”) mobile devices. They provide device configuration and integrity verification, data protection, system monitoring and enterprise reporting tools that help organizations verify and protect their mobile environment and remain in regulatory compliance.
Fixmo Sentinel provides a powerful combination of mobile device management (MDM), mobile integrity management (MIM), compliance monitoring and enterprise reporting that helps organizations ensure their mobile devices and infrastructure start, and remain, in a known trusted state. By continuously monitoring device configurations and system integrity, Fixmo Sentinel can help organizations understand what their risk posture is at any given time and take action when necessary to ensure regulatory compliance. It also provides risk intelligence tools including analytics, alerting and enterprise reporting that ensures organizations have an audit trail of the integrity and compliance posture of their mobility environment.
Fixmo SafeZone provides a FIPS 140-2 certified 256-bit AES encrypted “secure container” for iOS and Android devices that provides advanced encryption and access control for data in-transit and data at-rest including Email, PIM, documents, intranet-based web content and more. Organizations can also deploy custom applications into Fixmo SafeZone using the Fixmo SafeZone SDK to leverage the same level of protection for in-house developed apps as well as third party apps. Fixmo SafeZone ensures that private corporate data remains protected within a secure and verified container on both personal-liable and corporate-liable devices, helping organizations mitigate the risk of data loss and maintain compliance.
Fixmo Sentinel and Fixmo SafeZone can work independently or as complementary MRM solutions to enable organizations to mitigate and manage different types of risks associated with BlackBerry, iOS, Android and Windows Phone mobile device deployments and report on their compliance.
3. What is Fixmo’s relationship with the U.S. Government's National Security Agency (NSA)?
Through the National Security Agency (NSA) Technology Transfer Program (TTP), Fixmo has commercialized and further advanced powerful MRM technologies initially developed by the U.S. Government’s National Security Agency. Through a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the NSA/CSS (Central Security Service), Fixmo is actively engaged in various projects centered around mobile enterprise device management, mobile enterprise systems management, and mobile enterprise device security.
A growing number of organizations are embracing the BYOD trend, which enables employees to bring personal-liable mobile devices into the enterprise or government workplace. Allowing employees to bring consumer-grade mobile devices into the enterprise can offer a number of benefits and cost savings but can also introduce significant risk and concerns over data protection and regulatory compliance. Fixmo SafeZone is designed to help organizations manage the risk associated with the BYOD approach by ensuring corporate data is continuously protected on personal-liable devices within a separate contained environment that is fully encrypted, access-controlled and monitored for integrity verification. Fixmo SafeZone provides a secure container for iOS and Android devices, providing 256-bit AES encryption for data in-transit and data at-rest including email, PIM, documents, intranet-based web content and more. Organizations can also deploy custom applications using the Fixmo SafeZone SDK to leverage the same level of protection for in-house developed apps as well as third party apps. Fixmo SafeZone enables employees to securely access their critical business content on their personal-liable devices without impacting the personal user experience of the device. And when an employee exits an organization, IT administrators can easily wipe the Fixmo SafeZone container along with all of the corporate data applications contained within in.
5. Is Fixmo SafeZone FIPS certified?
Yes. Fixmo SafeZone offers 256-bit AES encryption and is FIPS 140-2 certified.
Through the National Security Agency Technology Transfer Program (TTP), Fixmo has driven the transition of AutoBerry, an NSA-designed solution for automating mobile device compliance auditing, from a government off-the-shelf (GOTS) product to a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product called Fixmo Sentinel Desktop. Existing AutoBerry users can select here to learn more about Fixmo Sentinel Desktop.
Fixmo also offers Fixmo Sentinel Server Compliance Check (SCC), which is the COTS alternative for AutoBES, an NSA-designed solution for automating mobile service compliance auditing. Fixmo Sentinel SCC enables administrators to automate compliance scanning and auditing of their BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Good Mobile Messaging Server mobile infrastructure by specifying pre-determined compliance profiles (e.g. STIG 252 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server) and using these to compare known good values against the existing server configurations. With Fixmo Sentinel SCC, administrators can ensure that mobile servers, including BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Good Mobile Messaging Server, are configured correctly at installation and remain correctly configured. Select here to learn more about Fixmo Sentinel SCC.
7. What are Fixmo Tools and Apps and how do they relate to Mobile Risk Management?
Fixmo recognizes that the risks associated with mobile devices can be partly mitigated when end-users are able to protect their data from threats and accidental loss. We also know users want to improve their productivity by using apps and utilities that integrate with their core device and communications experience without introducing new risks to their personal data. This is where Fixmo Tools and Apps come in to play.
Fixmo Tools and Apps are a suite of personal productivity and risk management tools that help you get more utility out of your mobile devices without introducing risk to your personal or business data. The Fixmo Tools and Apps portfolio currently includes Fixmo Tools for BlackBerry, Fixmo Extend for BlackBerry and Android, and Fixmo Web Messenger for BBM.
Simple but powerful tools like Mail Compliance Manager and Undelete enable end-users to protect themselves from accidentally replying to all, adding an unintended recipient to an email, or permanently deleting an important message – actions that can lead to private data loss and reputational risks. Tools and apps like Remote Print, Call Indicator, Forward/Reply with Edit and Fixmo Web Messenger for BBM are designed to extend the functionality of the core device applications and services without introducing additional risk to personal or business data. Select here to learn more about Fixmo Tools and Apps.