The boundaries between work and personal life are increasingly more blurred. This maximum applies increasingly on mobile devices and the equipment we used indiscriminately in both worlds and sometimes intersect unintentionally.
To separate these two realities and apply restrictive measures access to company data, Google has now announced the launch of Android for Work.
This is not a new idea in the Android universe and was presented at the last conference I / O Google.
At that time there was still nothing very concrete to present, but Google has shown interest in creating mechanisms that would ensure that the confidentiality of the data of the companies to which employees have access not to mix directly with the applications that they can run on their personal devices.
The problem is reflected in the ease with which today allows any employee use their personal devices for work and thus provide access to data often sensitive in machines that are not protected and with the necessary security policies.
The Google proposal is now in the form of Android for Work and is an ecosystem that encompasses applications, user profiles and even security policies to ensure maximum security of data and information of the companies where they are accessed in equipment outside the sphere of business.
To implement Android for Works Google will settle this structure in the profile system Android Lollipop already gives users of this operating system.
This way anyone can use your personal device Android on functions that have associated to your job, managing to separate completely and securely access the data.
But because the idea is not to limit the Google Android for Works to the latest models and its latest operating system, there is a solution that can be used when the devices are at least Android versions, from the Ice Cream Sandwich to the KitKat.
For these situations, and because these versions of Android do not offer the system so profiles native, Google will provide a specific version of Android for Work, dedicated to providing secure access to email, calendar, contacts, documents, browsing and job applications, always with the approval of the company’s management team.
This team will be responsible for defining security policies to be applied in each of the applications, marking clearly what resources that each can access. It is also your responsibility to define which applications to be used, and which are installed at “Android for Work” version of Google Play, and what the limits of each.
To give a critical mass and to better integration of this new ecosystem, Google has teamed up with a set of company, each dedicated to a specific area.
So we Citrix, SAP, BlackBerry and others in the aspect of management, Samsung, HTC and Motorola on the slope of the devices and the Box, Adobe and Salesforce in part of creating applications for these systems. Clear that Google, with its different offers also has a position in each of the aforementioned areas.
With the arrival of Android Works for Google preparing to enter the business world more seriously, marking a clear division between personal and business use of Android devices at the same time giving tools for companies to manage much more controlled manner the devices bind to their data structures and access your information.
This is an area where there are already other heavyweight competitors, which already have well-implemented solutions, as is the case of Microsoft.
There are also other companies like Apple and IBM, which are beginning to define its position in the business market and also want their market share.
Google’s advantage is great, very high because of the spread of Android, whether in business or in the choice that users make to their day-to-day equipment.
The Android is now Works ensures that these two worlds can cross freely and uncompromising way with equipment that uses the mobile operating system from Google
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