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FancyFon Leads the Market with Next Generation Security Features
2010-02-16
As organizations strive to cope with the tremendous surge in mobile device and application usage, there is a growing requirement to improve mobile security, and FancyFon has reacted to this market demand by introducing 10 security features to FAMOC™, its mobile device lifecycle management solution.
FancyFon Mobility Center (FAMOC™) enables organizations to manage a fleet of mobile phones, over multiple platforms - including Symbian S60, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, UIQ, and Java-based feature phones - in real time, over the air. The following features amount to an unparalleled level of security support, and are now available across multiple mobile platforms, managed centrally, over the air.
1. Organizations have the ability to schedule automated and encrypted backup sessions, to make sure that valuable handset data is not lost.
2. FancyFon has the ability to auto-destruct and wipe mobile devices or memory cards, over the air. This means that organizations can instantly wipe a phone when it is lost, or when an employee leaves the organization, or when a password is mismatched. If the phone is turned off, then the wipe will take place as soon as it is reactivated, even if a new SIM card has been installed into the phone. And, with auto backup another strong FancyFon feature, there is no risk of losing valuable data stored on the handset
3. FancyFon is unique in its ability to insist that a secure VPN or only a pre-selected and pre-configured WiFi connection is used when logging on to the Internet or when using email.
4. FancyFon can enforce password policies across all mobile platforms, such as insisting on the use of a complex password and regularly requesting password changes.
5. Auto-lock functionality can be pre-configured so that a mobile phone left idle for a certain time, can be auto-locked, with a password required to reactivate the keypad.
6. FancyFon’s mobile device and memory card encryption ensures that as soon as a memory card is removed from a phone, it is impossible to read or extract the data from it.
7. Application and user installation restrictions now empower organizations to ensure that employees aren’t installing inappropriate or unsafe applications, or even uninstalling business critical applications or data. This prevents the mobile phone coming under attack from malware, spyware or viruses. FancyFon can also manage white and black lists of approved and forbidden applications for download, and install and administer antivirus applications on mobile devices.
8. FancyFon’s access point and browser policies set parameters around approved and forbidden Internet connections, and provide additional functionality, such as adding useful bookmarks to browsers.
9. If an organization has some mission critical applications running on employee mobile devices, FancyFon can ensure that these are “always on”, and reboot them automatically if they fail.
10. FancyFon has the ability to set restrictions around the use of applications, for example to disable the use of the web browser or the phone’s camera.
Dietmar Fuchs, COO at FancyFon commented, “Gartner recently issued a report entitled 10 Smartphone Security Failures You Want to Avoid, listing the potential security weaknesses when using smartphones in the work place. At FancyFon, we believe that our mobile device lifecycle management platform addresses all of these potential risks, equipping organizations with a solution that radically improves the security of their corporate mobile communications.”
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About FancyFon
Established in 2006, FancyFon provides a portfolio of industry-leading solutions for the mobile device lifecycle management market, enabling any number of mobile phones or network devices using a variety of operating systems - including RIM, Symbian, Apple, Windows Mobile, Android and Java-based feature phones - to be centrally and remotely managed, over the Internet. FancyFon Mobility Center (FAMOC™) provides asset, configuration, application, and security management, as well as remote support for handsets based on all of these mobile platforms, either as a hosted or as an on-site solution. With its head office in Cork, Ireland, FancyFon customers include service providers, large enterprise and government organizations in Europe and the United States. www.fancyfon.com
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