endpoint-management
Endpoint management
Endpoints are the most exposed and least controlled part of the estate: they leave the building, run arbitrary software, and are operated by people whose job is not IT.
Enrollment is the control point
A device that never enrolled is a device with no patching, no encryption guarantee, and no remote wipe. Enrollment must be a precondition of access to company data, not a request made afterwards.
Automate it from procurement so a device is enrolled before the user opens it. Manual enrollment as a post-delivery step is skipped exactly when the desk is busy.
Handle personal devices as a deliberate policy decision, not an accident. If personal devices reach company data, either manage the work container or restrict what they can reach — and be explicit with people about what the organization can and cannot see on their own hardware, because ambiguity there destroys trust quickly.