Modern Device Management

Picking up on my post from last week, where I covered the details on  onboarding iOS devices on MDE using Intune , I wanted to follow it up with the onboarding process for Android devices along with details on some additional configuration that I had to put in place. In this blog, I will cover the onboarding process for Android devices onto MDE using MDM (Company Portal for personally owned Work Profile) + MAM & MAM-WE policies. System Requirements & Pre-requisites 1. Mobile phones running Android 6.0 and above are supported. Mobile phones running Android go, tablets, and other mobile devices running Android are not currently supported . 2. The device is either enrolled with the Intune Company Portal app or is registered with Azure Active Directory through Microsoft Authenticator with the same account. 3. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint & Intune licenses assigned to the end users. Enable Microsoft Intune connection from Microsoft 365 Defender to share device information. (S

In the last 8 months, I have seen an increased demand for securing company assets against ransomware and other threat\attack vectors. While organizations typically look at protecting Workstations and Servers from vulnerabilities and attacks, mobile devices often go unnoticed and rarely get prioritised. This is particulary worrisome as technology has come a long way and mobile devices are regularly used as an extension to a primary work device to access corporate data. As convenient it may be, this increases the chance of data leak of sensitve information, especially in today's time when cyber attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. This is where the need for a strong Mobile threat defense solution comes into picture.  Defender for Endpoint for iOS & Android devices is the current MTD solution by Microsoft. Just last month on Jan 25 2022, Microsoft announced the general availability of threat and vulnerability management support for Android & iOS . This means that i