It isn’t obvious to everyone, sometimes, until someone points it
out and then it’s a revelation: If Windows truly does become
all one platform next week as planned, then there is no more
“mobile data management.”
Any management tool that protects and secures data on mobile
Windows devices, and any tool that does the same for desktop
Windows devices, must be the same tool.
It’s not any revelation to Microsoft ... today. It was
unwelcome news for the company in 2010, just
after Lucy hale leaked topless pics of its intention to bridge the
two platforms. A very shrewd reporter pursued the point that,
if Windows and Windows Phone were becoming the same, device
management policies would have to become the same.
At the time, Microsoft didn’t have an answer. Five years
later, it’s here.
The concept goes by different names depending upon whom you ask,
so we’ve settled on one: Enterprise Data Protection (EDP). The
basic idea is this: Mobile platforms are never all one
piece. They are segments of partly connected networks, but
mobile devices float between these segments.
“Your devices today are a cache for the cloud,” said Microsoft
Senior Security Program Manager Yogesh Mehta, during the company’s
Ignite conference in Chicago last May. “Even on or off the
device, this data is going to move around.”
It’s less possible now than it was five years ago for an MDM
system to completely bridge the gaps, especially when employees
travel by air with variable or no Wi-Fi, especially when people
share data on cloud-based file sharing services like Dropbox and
Box, and especially when it’s impossible to imagine any
organization whose entire employee base uses a single brand of
phone and the same brand of tablet.
Microsoft needed a data management policy that travels with
shared documents — that enforces organizations’ access control when
these documents traverse these zones of
inaccessibility. Enterprise Data Protection seeks to
accomplish this with a kind of encryption wrapper that both encodes
the document and embeds the policy.
This encryption extends to the older FAT file system now, which
is very important because it means it follows the file as it’s
copied to removable drives, especially USB thumb drives.
Windows’ existing encryption scheme, BitLocker, encrypts volumes
as a whole rather than the files inside them individually. An
authorized user copying a file from a BitLocker-encrypted volume to
a flash drive would produce an unencrypted file. But a file on
any volume whatsoever that’s encrypted at the file level carries
its encryption with it as it’s copied.
“One of the things we noticed,” said Mehta, “is that a lot of
the leaks that happen, happen accidentally, because users are just
using applications that often have no business interacting with
that data.
“So what we introduced with Windows 10 is an integration of
AppLocker... and EFS file-level encryption, in a unique
manner. We have now given you the ability to say which
applications can be trusted with enterprise data, and only those
applications will have the ability to open your enterprise
files.”
Even old applications rely on Windows for the basic resources of
opening and saving files. For most of them, the Open and Save
dialog boxes come from Windows, not from within
themselves. Microsoft retrofitted these resources so that they
enforce EDP policies on behalf of applications that would have no
idea that a tablet wasn’t an ancient scroll uncovered by an
archeologist.
Under EDP, when someone within an organization produces a
document which company policy prevents from being opened (“No, you
cannot Photoshop this image”), then that restriction follows the
document even as it is replicated (assuming that is allowed),
moved, and relocated on flash drives and Dropbox.
Mehta points out that this resolves the old problem of
separating enterprise resources from personal resources, not by
dividing the machine up but by distributing the
resources. People should be allowed to use their own devices
in their own way.
Which means, by extension, that companies should not be telling
users how they can set up their own devices. Windows moves the
focus of enterprise protection from the
file system to the file.
And if you’re thinking, “But can’t I just copy and paste the
data from a protected document I can open, into a new one that I’ve
created?” Believe it or not, no. Just as Windows provides
Open and Save dialog resources, it also provides cut, copy, and
paste, including through an old technology we may have all
forgotten about called Object Linking and Embedding.
EDP actually prevents users from copying and pasting data from
protected documents — it extends to the system Clipboard level.
So when it comes time for a company to wipe its intellectual
property from former employees’ systems, it no longer has to
perform a wipe of the device. It can perform a kind of
file-level wipe that extends to the file level, passively.
I mean “passively” in this sense: If permission to use a
file is revoked, then even a device that’s disconnected from the
network can no longer open it, even if the file technically is
still stored on the system. Once the device is connected, then
it may be able to purge those files.
But even if the device is never connected to the company network
again, then at least until the users delete the files themselves,
their presence on their devices is pointless.
Up to now, the move towards bridging the divide between mobile
and desktop devices has not yielded big benefits for Microsoft, or
for anyone else — certainly not with Windows 8. Users want to
use mobile devices differently from PCs, so similarity of
appearance here and there doesn’t necessarily appeal to them.
Here, at last, is one big reason to go forth with bridging the
gap: enabling a uniform maintenance system that works essentially
the same way, across all Windows devices — at least, all of them
that upgrade. Whether Windows Phone users will have as easy a
time upgrading to Windows 10 as Windows 8 users — to borrow a
phrase from lazier journalists — remains to be seen.
But what we do see now, quite clearly, is that someone at
Microsoft — someone in a capacity that listens to what enterprise
users truly need — actually gets it.
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