Mobile Workforce

Although mobile workforce usually refers to company employees who may be road warriors or who work in remote branch offices, in today’s world almost all employees are mobile workers. With the proliferation of laptops, tablets and smartphones throughout the organization, it’s nearly impossible to discern between a mobile worker and someone commuting to and from their office.

For workers whose primary job is to be mobile, corporate policies vary. In some cases, employees may use personal computing devices, but in other cases, corporate-owned devices only. How corporate networks, apps and data are accessed remotely varies as well, from VPN to less secure file sharing. In addition, IT’s support and management of these moving endpoints are often opportunistic, with IT providing software upgrades and less critical support when the worker visits headquarters.

IT’s priorities around mobile workforce support include providing secure corporate access, enforcing compliance policies, managing far-flung endpoints and attempting to provide some offline capabilities. Meanwhile, to meet the need for increased productivity and growth, today’s mobile workforce must be able to access corporate data and apps anytime, anywhere (online or offline) and from any device.

Benefits of the Moka5 for Mobile Workforce Solution:

  • Self-service provisioning. Users download the corporate workspace from anywhere through a secure web portal and can be initially provisioned and authenticated without network access (since they won’t have their secure corporate workspace to access the network until after the provisioning).
  • Locally executed. Unlike VDI, everything takes place on the user’s computer for better performance and seamless transitions between online and offline use.
  • Revoke / wipe. IT can remotely disable access or wipe LivePC containers or set a “time bomb” to automatically revoke access to or completely wipe a container.
  • Rejuvenation. Reduce IT support costs with ability for end-users to quickly reset to a clean workspace without losing their work files.
  • “Instant” updates. OS and application patches, software updates, and even entirely new apps are downloaded in the background and appear “instantly” the next time the user logs in to their workspace.
  • User-friendly download controls. Only push updates to users that need them, enable users to delay downloads if needed, and ensure adequate hardware prior to download to minimize difficulties for mobile employees.
  • Built-in disk encryption. AES 256 encryption of the container ensures compliance with data security standards and privacy regulations, equivalent to whole disk encryption of a corporate-managed computer.
  • Reliable access control. LDAP/AD integration, two-factor authentication support ensures that you can use your existing access control processes.