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TM Mobile IAM – Tracking Users and Devices A Solution White Paper There is nothing more important than our customers. TM Mobile IAM – Tracking Users and Devices Providing Visibility, Control and Automation for the Mobile Enterprise and BYOD Environments Introduction The exploding number and the diversity of end systems being connected to their networks is challenging IT departments in four primary areas; security, compliance, application provisioning and management. Nowhere are these challenges more evident than in the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environment. The combination of high speed pervasive access and the desire of employees to use their own tablets, smartphones and even laptops have made implementing and supporting BYOD a major pain point for IT departments. In order to cost effectively provide security, compliance, application provisioning and management for BYOD environments IT departments need a solution that can: • Provide end-to-end visibility from the mobile edge of the network to the datacenter • Enable flexible and powerful control of resources through context based policy management • Provide automation to simplify onboarding mobile devices Visibility In order to ensure network security and meet compliance mandates the IT department must be able to identify all of the devices connected to their network. They must also be able to understand the risks associated with granting each of the end systems access to the network. As an example, the risks associated with an IT managed desktop computer are obviously very different than those associated with an employee owned and probably largely unmanaged tablet. Control Once the end system is detected, identified and the risk assessed, the proper controls must be placed on the access.