Have you ever heard data breach can also happen through the keyboard?
Allowing the workforce to use an unauthorized 3rd party keyboard can cause severe loss to any organization as it can leak the data to personal containers. By default, AMGuard® allows default keyboard on the registered devices; however, to use external or 3rd party keyboard, they should be whitelisted first in the EMM console.
This article explains the procedure of whitelisting 3rd party keyboard.
- Login to AMGuard® console.
- Go to policy groups by clicking on "Policy Groups" in left navigation menu
- Go to policy details by clicking on policy name . For this article, we will using a Work Managed policy.
- Go to Security tab, scroll down a bit and notice "Permitted Input Methods"
- By default the restriction is disabled. To whitelist 3rd party keyboard, enable the option and provide package name of the application that controls 3rd party keyboard.
- After adding package name to the policy, click on Save and Continue to impose the policy on all devices tagged to it.
- From security standpoint WeGuard® allows to whitelist five 3rd party keyboards for now. Clicking on "+" will let admins to add other keyboard package names.
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