Patent ID: 9609460
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A mobile device security and policy enforcement method implemented by a processing node in a cloud based system, comprising: subsequent to communicatively coupling a mobile device to the processing node based on configuring the mobile device with a mobile configuration profile which natively supports updating configuration settings in a mobile operating system to cause communication of the mobile device through the cloud based system, monitoring data between the mobile device and an external network; enforcing policy relative to the data, wherein the policy is associated with a user of the mobile device, and inspecting the data for malicious content therein, wherein an authority node provides threat data for the malicious content and updates to the processing node; allowing the data responsive to the data complying with the policy and/or containing no malicious content such that the data is provided through the cloud based system to either the mobile device or the external network; and blocking the data in the processing node responsive to the data not complying with the policy and/or containing malicious content such that the data is not provided to either the mobile device or the external network, wherein the enforcing, the inspecting, the allowing, and the blocking is performed in the processing node independent of the mobile device.