Evolving work habits, security threats, a more challenging economic climate and a growing diversity of devices are making it more difficult than ever for organisations to manage and protect their digital estate. In a recent survey, two-thirds of respondents were using more than ten tools to manage and protect their digital estate. to keep their digital estate managed and protected.

In addition to the rising challenges brought about by the rise in hybrid working and the ever-increasing presence of security threats. Organisations are also looking to do more with less as economic forces are pressuring companies to tighten their belts. According to Gartner, 75% of organisations sought security vendor consolidation in 2022, up from 29% in 2020.

This is a typical pattern: new issues emerge, a point solution arrives that promises to “fix” the problems, and this short-termism is repeated. Often, this cycle results in an ever-increasing number of admin consoles, identity systems or agents running on devices, all of which add complexity overhead for IT admins and pose risks to the health and performance of endpoints. At some point, consolidation and a “Spring Clean” is needed.

The latest Microsoft Intune Plan, “Microsoft Intune Suite”, helps organisations to overcome these challenges. Microsoft Intune Suite unifies endpoint management and security solutions into one suite of tools, simplifying your endpoint management experiences, improving your security posture and removing the headache of using multiple tools.

Capabilities of Microsoft Intune suite

Microsoft Intune is an industry-leading, unified endpoint management solution organisations can depend on to ensure their devices, operating systems, and apps are up-to-date, protected, and performant. We have broken down what we see as the four key capabilities below and demonstrated how the existing Intune plans and the Intune Suite compare.

• Remote help – enable IT helpdesk teams to remotely troubleshoot a user’s desktop and mobile devices based on their existing company identity.

• Endpoint privilege management – enable the controlled elevation of Windows standard users so security controls don’t get in the way of productivity. The right users will have the correct privileges at the right time to reduce the security risk of overprivileged users and the burden on the help desk by allowing greater self-serve for basic scenarios. 

• Advanced endpoint analytics – data-driven insights that help IT administrators understand, anticipate, and improve the user experience for the staff in the organisation. 

• Microsoft Tunnel for mobile app management – a micro-VPN that connects corporate resources from personal iOS/iPadOS and Android devices, so employees can access company resources from their personal mobile devices when duty calls.