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Maintaining Android in the enterprise
Risk Management
Admins and security experts are losing more and more control over devices within the enterprise, as the presenters of the SUSECon keynotes largely agreed in early November in Orlando [1]. SUSE's CEO Nils Brauckmann was the first to address the problem, and people at IBM, SAP, and Cisco are also aware of the drama.
New management tools, cloud solutions, and mobile computing are adding complications to the quest for better enterprise security. A main concern for many admins is the flood of insecure personal devices that are now used to check email, update calendars, and even access the home network through remote login. The wave of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) networking is turning the LAN into unsafe terrain.
BYOD Destroys Security Concepts
Integrating mobile devices into the rapidly changing networking landscape (with deep packet inspection, software-defined networking, etc.) would be difficult enough, even in the best of circumstances. Compounding the issue, the majority of endpoints are inherently insecure [2]. Admins need to come to terms with the fact that Google ignores basic security concepts of the Unix and Linux world in Android.
If you have a large enough budget and enough power in your company, you can impose policies on users, turn to expensive crypto phones, or implement one of many commercial offers for mobile device management software. If not, you can use Linux to improve the situation without investing in expensive mobile device management software.
In this article, we show how you can use tools from the Android SDK [3] to retrieve information about the state of the device. You'll learn about apps that are useful in the analysis, and we'll explain how admins can restore equipment to a safe
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