Kaseya Rolls Out BYOD Suite for MSPs
IT systems management and automation platform provider Kaseya is rolling out the general availability of the Kaseya BYOD Suite to provide managed services providers (MSPs) with a way to provide mobile users with secure access to corporate data while also maintaining personal data privacy.
Kaseya BYOD Suite, which leverages technology from Rover Apps LLC, a company it acquired in July, uses a containerized approach that separates corporate access from the rest of the device, enabling full control over corporate data for IT while leaving the device itself, and personal data and applications on the device, untouched.
The company said the suite “provides installable apps that create a corporate ‘container’ on an employee’s personal device, creating a secure environment that is controllable by the IT team.”
Additionally, the company noted, that these apps provde users with the ability to access email, data and files from the company network.
Kaseya also said that “there is no need for cumbersome VPNs to access information while remote,” since there is a “private secure communications channel between the applications and a gateway behind the company firewall.”
Kaseya Mobile Product Management Vice President Jonathan Foulkes told MSPmentor in an interview that the company’s suite is integrated with the Kaseya licensing backend systems, but the current release isn’t completely integrated with the virtual system administrator (VSA).
However, he said that the lack of Kaseya VSA integration is not a big deal because he said most of the components that get deployed are the on-premise gateway. “Think of it as the version of the agent that does all of the mobile things, and that’s always done remotely on the network where you’re trying to access the back end of these systems.”
Foulkes said that the suite “is finally a solution to the BYOD conondrum.
“It makes the makes the job of providing mobile solutions a much more profitable prospect for them than prior solutions,” he said.
The news follows on Kaseya’s October acquisition of 365 Command, a cloud application management tool for monitoring and managing Microsoft Office 365.
