IDC MarketScape Names Ivanti/MobileIron WW Leader in UEM Software

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:39:16 Z

Hey, here’s some exciting news worth sharing near and far. Ivanti/MobileIron has been named to the Leaders Category of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide UEM Software 2021 Vendor Assessment (doc #US46957820, January 2021) report.

This follows on the heels of Gartner placing Ivanti as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools in October 2020.

Why is all this so important? As Ivanti Chairman and CEO Jim Schaper stated recently, the future of work is no longer in the future. It’s happening now. And that’s why, with the December 2020 acquisitions of MobileIron and Pulse Secure, Ivanti is expanding its capabilities in order to deliver intelligent and secure experiences across remote infrastructure, devices, and people in what we call the “everywhere workplace.”

Value-Adds to the Ivanti Technology Stack

The MobileIron and Pulse Secure acquisitions have been recognized as a natural expansion of the Ivanti technology stack to address directly the needs of the everywhere workplace—adding modern mobile and PC management, plus providing a coming together of what a modern UEM stack should look like—secure device provisioning, management, and monitoring to deliver intelligent and secure experiences across all devices. We’ll continue to expand our capabilities to include even more devices, embed greater security protocols across infrastructures, and allow organizations to self-heal, self-secure, and self-service devices proactively and autonomously.

Ivanti now provides a more robust overall UEM solution for mobile/PC endpoint management and is well-positioned to support current and future customers that recognize the value in a centralized PC/IT-centric management framework. Ivanti is bringing together three best-of-breed technologies to help customers solve genuine problems. This combined platform will be OS and service agnostic, enabling customers to truly scale their management and security frameworks—an approach starkly different from the competition.

Ivanti Neurons is a Game Changer

We’re also pleased to see that our Ivanti Neurons Platform continues to generate interest and excitement thanks to its configurable and flexible automation scenarios for device provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management across a range of form factors. This hyper-automation platform enables organizations to self-heal and self-secure devices—and self-service end users—in a proactive, predictable, and autonomous manner. The Neurons platform augments IT teams with automation bots that detect and resolve issues and security vulnerabilities while improving the accuracy, speed and costs of services IT delivers. Early adopters of the solution have reduced unplanned outages up to 63%, reduced time to deploy security updates by 88%, and resolved up to 80% of endpoint issues before users reported them.*

* Customer results are specific to their total environment and experience, of which Ivanti is a part. Individual results may vary based on each customer’s unique environment.

We’re Here For You

If you have a UEM need, we’re ready to help. Combining Ivanti, MobileIron, and Pulse Secure was the right call to address the market’s need for a platform to discover, manage, provision, and secure all devices from a single pane of glass—with robust automation capabilities to make things easier for IT. We’re agile and responsive to meet your needs, not a lumbering behemoth forcing you to do things its way.

Stay tuned for the release of our hybrid solution that will allow use of both cloud-based and on-premises UEM solutions in tandem. Whether you’re looking for a UEM solution that is cloud-centric, on-premises, or a hybrid, Ivanti can meet your needs. Want to learn more? Download an excerpt of the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide UEM Software 2021 Vendor Assessment report here.

Safeguarding Forests—and IT—Falls to All of Us

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 20:11:42 Z

The month of October is near its end. Here in Utah, stunning autumn colors have graced the mountains and the weather has turned brisk and fresh. Fire season is over. What a relief!

The US Forest Service and other agencies have driven expansive campaigns with catchy slogans like “Only you can prevent forest fires,” or “It only takes one mistake to bring us all down. Don’t let it be yours.”

I read one of those slogans while driving through some beautiful mountain scenery and I started contemplating the state of IT. It hit me that IT and the Forest Service have a lot in common.

Security Is Everyone’s Task, Not Just IT’s

Just like the Forest Service, IT depends on the behavior of users to maintain a safe environment. Risk awareness is the first step in enlisting the help of end users. They must adopt safe behaviors and understand what good behavior is, which will go far in the long run. This training helps users be secure on the road, at home, and at work, and it should be part of any security program.

Some wildfires are started by lightning; they’re like security events that are out of our control. But such events are in the minority. Most security events are caused by an action that someone took. In a social engineering test in 2016, a group of researchers found that one in five employees would sell their password for under $1,000 dollars—with the majority willing to sell them for under $100 dollars.

This statistic is troubling, but this next one from the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2018 is even more so. Eighty-one percent of data breaches are due to password issues. Awareness and coaching users to use strong passphrases not words—and to not reuse passwords—will enhance security both in the corporate and home environments.

Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) or PIN technologies can help in tightening security in the corporate environment. Long-term plans should include implementing a process that removes passwords. A world without passwords seemed incredible just a few short years ago, but today technologies such as biometrics, WebAuthn, Windows Hello, and Windows PIN can be used to replace the password with new and more secure options.

Device Discovery—The Need for “Fire Spotters”

On occasion as I’ve traveled the mountains, I’ve seen the Forest Service cabins or lookout stations for the fire spotters, whose job is to monitor and report if a fire is starting. Discovery of devices is like that lookout.

Discovery must enable IT to know about every device on the network—when it arrived and as many details as possible. Without the lookout, a “fire” could start and become deeply embedded before we can respond. Passive discovery based on network activity, and well as agentless inventory scans, acts as that base lookout to determine early on if something as changed. Knowing about and responding early as devices are added to the network can reduce risks greatly.

Management Behind the Scenes

As we enjoy the mountains and scenery, we don’t often notice all of the management that occurs behind the scenes. Wildlife managers, forest managers, and range managers are just some of the people involved that work to reduce the risks to the environment. They leverage all the different tools available to reduce the risk of wildfires. And while these people and tools aren’t the reason we visit and enjoy the scenery, they have the ability to improve our experiences. IT faces the same challenges—how to improve the user experience while removing the risks.

Safe computing requires a well-managed computing environment. A well-managed environment provides the basis for a great user experience.

Take a few minutes to learn more about endpoint and workspace management solutions and security solutions from Ivanti that can help you succeed in this effort.

Rex McMillan has been with Ivanti for nearly 14 years. In his current capacity directing a team of product managers, Rex works to help create innovative solutions of high value that help customers improve the productivity of their end users and realize a rapid return on their technology investment.

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