With advances in technology, many enterprise devices have been exposed to cyber-attacks. This has led to numerous steps being adopted by all major end-user segments, including large enterprises and SMEs, to ensure protection of data. There are a number of pure-play vendors in this market. These vendors have been developing software kits that can be integrated into devices that are used to access the internet.
Currently, a number of companies have a significant presence in the Global BYOD market, primarily because of the commercialization of their products. Many pure-play companies in the market are being acquired by large companies for their technologically advanced security solutions. This trend is expected to continue during the forecast period. Many vendors in the Global BYOD market currently provide software solutions that can be incorporated into various devices.
Technavio has identified the top 21 companies in the Global BYOD Market that are expected to help fuel market growth a CAGR of 25.32 percent from 2014-2019:
Apple
Apple was the leading player in the Global BYOD market in terms of revenue in 2014. It offers hardware and business applications for smartphones and tablets. It employs a customer-centric approach and is capitalizing on the shift in the industry toward tablets and smartphones. The company targets only a niche segment; its consumers are characterized by factors such as lifestyle and income. With regard to tablets, it focuses on superior quality and innovation.
Also, it has first-mover advantage in the Smartphone and Tablet market. As a result, the company has gained a competitive advantage over its competitors along with a strong consumer base. The major market for the company is the US. In addition, it is planning to enhance its market share by increasing the number of retail outlets worldwide.
VMware
VMware is one of the leading players in the market after the acquisition of AirWatch, a leading provider of enterprise management and security solutions in February 2014. AirWatch offers MDM solutions that allow the management of large-scale deployments of mobile devices. The solutions offered by the company enable organizations to quickly register the devices in their environment, configure and update device settings, enforce compliance to security policies, secure mobile access to corporate resources, and remotely lock and wipe managed devices. In addition, its solutions help manage a diverse fleet of Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Mac OS X, Symbian, and Windows devices in a single console. The company’s MAM solution allows the management of internal, purchased, and public applications across employees, corporations, and shared devices in an organization.
Citrix
Citrix is a leading vendor in the Global BYOD market. The company offers XenMobile, which is a mobile device and application management solution. Its offerings, integrated with the Worx Mobile application, help in delivering enterprise-grade MDM for protecting organizational data present on any device. XenMobile offers email, browser, file sharing, and editing options through a user-friendly platform. In addition, it secures data with the help of a FIPS-compliant container.
IBM
IBM is a major vendor in the Global BYOD market. Because of the increased adoption of the BYOD policy, organizations are interested in creating a mobile environment that supports the choice of employees while reducing corporate data security risks and controlling costs. The company offers its MobileFirst portfolio, which helps organizations adopt mobile technology to better engage with customers and extend their businesses to new markets. The comprehensive mobile management and security solution capabilities support the company’s vision for enterprise mobility management and encompass the lifecycle management of apps and security between businesses, partners, and customers.
Good Technology
Good Technology offers enterprise mobility solutions to allow enterprises to manage their diverse mobility needs and maximize employee productivity while ensuring access to applications and data. The company offers several solutions, including secure business intelligence, enterprise mobility management, secure social business, mobile identity and access management, mobile collaboration, and secure content management.
The company’s MDM solution protects critical data and applications on tablets and smartphones of employees. The MDM products are capable of offering security and distribution management features to enterprises that need to control data, applications, and documents being transmitted through mobile devices.
MobileIron
MobileIron provides virtual smartphone platform solutions that offer data-driven MDM for real-time wireless cost control available both on-premises through a virtual smartphone platform and as a cloud service through connected cloud. The MDM solutions serve several industries, including BFSI, Healthcare, Government, Retail, Manufacturing, and Education.
SAP
SAP offers a software platform that helps organizations manage and secure deployment of all mobile devices and tablets including iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry. SAP Afaria is the enterprise mobility management solution that combines MDM and MAM technology. The company’s enterprise mobility solutions help to keep employees connected to the business environment from anywhere and at any time, with the highest level of security. The company has updated Afaria, its mobile device management software solution, to enable organizations to build customized interfaces.
BlueBox
We are passionate about building innovative mobile solutions that marry the visibility, control, and security needs of the enterprise with the freedom, ease of use, and privacy demanded by mobile employees. The result — mobile data security that both enterprises and employees can embrace.
Bluebox Security was founded in 2012 by two industry visionaries — Adam Ely and Caleb Sima — with deep security roots and a track record of innovation and execution. Bluebox is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by $27.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Tenaya Capital, and Andreas Bechtolsheim.
Cisco Systems
The Cisco BYOD Smart Solution provides a comprehensive approach to effectively design, manage, and control the access of a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) network. Cisco BYOD enhances user experiences and productivity.
This complete solution starts with Cisco design guides and professional services that lead you from planning and design to day-to-day operations. This BYOD solution also provides the necessary infrastructure, including: Access points, Controllers, Security, Network management, and Mobile Collaboration Applications.
This infrastructure supports a highly secure, high-performing network that is accessible to a wide range of devices. BYOD Smart Solution Overview. Learn how Cisco can help with every step toward successful BYOD implementation.
ForeScout Technologies
ForeScout helps you embrace BYOD while preserving security. ForeScout products give you real-time visibility and control over personal devices on your network. ForeScout offers a range of products that protect your network and your data, regardless of what type of device your employees are trying to use.
ForeScout provides three levels of security for BYOD. Depending on your budget and your level of security requirements, you may use one, two, or three at the same time. Many of our customers find that the optimal security solution is to reserve the more expensive solution for those users with the highest need for mobile security on their devices.
Google (Divide)
Divide helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology and corporate BYOD policies. The company’s flagship platform combines cloud-based management with device-level technology that ensures enterprise security and control without compromising personal freedom and privacy.
Divide launched with the belief that BYOD was going to dramatically alter the IT landscape and usher in a new wave of mobility. The company was right, and today remains dedicated to helping enterprise customers manage and secure employee devices while ensuring that employees have the best tools and experiences to be productive on their personal devices.
HP
The HP Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) solution is specifically designed to help you unleash the full potential of the mobility, without compromising the integrity of your IT infrastructure. The comprehensive solution set includes intelligent network management software, optional management modules, and high-performance WLAN access points and controllers that work in concert to enable highly secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise networks.
iPASS
With iPass you get access to the iPass Mobile Network, the world’s largest commercial Wi-Fi network, with inflight Internet and far more hotels, airports, and business venues than any other network. So users get easy, reliable connectivity virtually anywhere they roam.
Mobile workers prefer to connect using Wi-Fi—it’s in our airports and in flight, in hotels, offices, homes and everywhere we congregate. Virtually all smartphones and tablets ship with Wi-Fi capability; tiered data plans encourage consumers to rely on Wi-Fi; and cloud-based applications are exploding.
Kaspersky
Cyberthreats have become a global problem which spreads far beyond any geographical borders. The rise of advanced persistent threats (APTs) has transformed the state of the global cyberthreat landscape, putting critical industrial infrastructure, finance, telecommunications, transportation, research institutes, military contractors and governmental networks worldwide at great risk.
To fulfill its mission, Kaspersky Lab is determined to detect and neutralize all forms of malicious programs, regardless of their origin or purpose. There is no such thing as “right” or “wrong” malware for us. The company is committed to protecting all computer users around the globe. This protection is available to individuals and organizations, from governments and large enterprises to home users.
McAfee (Intel)
The best investment you can make in BYOD security is the McAfee ePO management platform. It’s at the core of an integrated security infrastructure. The McAfee ePO platform provides visibility across all your endpoints and enables you to streamline and automate management of users’ personal devices, along with corporate-issued devices and on-premises systems.
It’s a vital component of many BYOD solutions, including McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection Suites and McAfee Enterprise Mobility Management. Best of all, it’s scalable, so as BYOD gains ground in your organization and more users start connecting to your network with their own devices, you can be confident that your BYOD capabilities are future-proof.
Movero
Calero Software provides Movero Managed Mobility strategy and services. We build strategic solutions by combining our flexible technology, service desk and expert consulting services to address every mobility management challenge. We offer a range of technology, services and consulting expertise in a flexible, modular way so that customers can choose the options they need – from the initial plan design, through procurement, deployment, securing, managing and supporting mobility.
Oracle
Oracle Mobile Security Suite is helping organizations face the transformation of the network perimeter to mobile devices. Oracle Mobile Security Suite achieves the goal of securing People, Data and Devices with a multi-layered approach to securing the mobile device. Oracle does this by containing the risks through application containers, then by controlling the risks through application and policy controls. Last, Oracle manages the overall experience by extending the identity management frameworks onto the mobile device providing capabilities such as Single Sign-on the mobile platform.
Sophos
Our intuitive solutions support the diversity of devices and platforms accessing your network today. We focus on making BYOD simple to relieve the burden on your IT department. And we don’t just protect your smartphones and tablets. We cover all the devices a user might have and ensure that your network can handle them. So you keep your workers productive, protected and connected—wherever they are.
Symantec
Symantec has the broadest set of technologies to securely enable a mobile workforce. Businesses have multiple use cases, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Symantec supports a device-centric and app-centric approach that solves data protection problems without touching the rest of the device.
Symantec’s mobile solutions enable us to focus on our key objectives by addressing our security and management needs. We have much greater visibility into our entire inventory of iPads and the apps they carry. With a click of a mouse, I’m able to see what technicians have done on each device and what apps are deployed. Managing app clutter has become increasingly important as more apps are downloaded onto our devices.
Trend Micro
As a global leader in IT security, Trend Micro develops innovative security solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. With over 25 years of security expertise, we’re recognized as the market leader in server security, cloud security, and small business content security.
Trend Micro security fits the needs of our customers and partners. Our solutions protect end users on any device, optimize security for the modern data center, and secure networks against breaches from targeted attacks. We deliver top-ranked client-server, network, and cloud-based protection that stops new threats faster, detects breaches better, and protects data in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Verivo Software
The Verivo Software team is committed to accelerating our customers’ business results via enterprise mobility. For more than a decade, our enterprise mobility experts have been helping companies meet the demands of the emerging market and contributing to the transformation of the mobile enterprise with their insight and innovation.
Our unique enterprise mobile app platform is designed to radically simplify the complexities of building, securing and controlling custom enterprise apps. We’ve dramatically transformed our go-to-market strategy to meet today’s market demands. You can now try our software for 30 days at no cost and then take advantage of our simplified and predictable pricing model.
