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Hi All,

I am evaluating the features of Symantec AppCenter and I have the following questions:

1. The App Wrapping feature also include a Data Leakage check? In particular is there a "protect area" that can be used only by wrapped apps (for example) in order to save a document?
2. If with Symantec Secure Email or with another third-party email wrapped app I download a .pdf file, this file can be opened by any pdf reader or only by a wrapped app?
3. Symantec AppCenter makes jailbreak\root check? If yes, how? Is there a agent installed on the device in order to make this check?

Thanks

Hi VoCa,

1. Wrapping an App can prevent data leakage; you can configure it to allow or disallow content to be moved outside your wrapped App.

2. App Center offers native viewers for PDF and Office format files, so they can be viewed inside Secure Email only, and not saved externally to the device or accessed by another App.

3. Yes, a jailbreak/root check is part of the default inventory collected. When you first access App Center from your device, you will get an App Center agent that detects this, along with reporting other inventory information to the App Center server.  You can treat these "unsecure" devices differently from a normal locked device.

Hi Kyle A,

First of all thanks for your answer. I have two doubts:

1. Wrapped apps uses a "secure virtual box" in order to save their content, and I can decide if this content can moved outside. Is correct?

2. If I use a third-party wrapped email client (no Secure Email), can I decide to allow to save a attached document outside of the wrapped email client? Also in this case those documents can be opened only with native viewers?

Thanks

Hi VoCa,

Correct.  You can configure an App Policy that allows you to share content with everything on the device, only a select amount of Apps (also secured through App Center), or nothing.  This includes email clients, if you want to allow them to save content or not, or what they can share it with.  However, for native viewers, that come on the device, you can't secure content once it's outside an App Center secured App.  So if you allow content beyond a secured App, you can't control it.

Kyle