Device Compliance, IT Atlas

Overview

A compliance policy states measurable requirements: encryption enabled, minimum OS version, EDR healthy, firewall on, no jailbreak, password or PIN configured. The management service evaluates them and records a compliant or non compliant state against the device identity.

Compliance only has teeth when access policy consumes it. Reporting alone changes nothing; requiring compliance for data access changes behaviour immediately.

Security considerations

Keep grace periods short and communicate remediation steps in the user facing message.
Include EDR health and patch currency, not just encryption and passcode.

Related topics

Conditional Access

Policy that evaluates signals about the user, device, application, location and risk at sign in, then grants, blocks or constrains access.

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft's cloud endpoint management service, delivering configuration, applications, updates and compliance policy across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux.

Endpoint Management

Enrolling, configuring, securing, monitoring and retiring the devices people use, at scale and without touching them physically.

Device Identity

Giving devices verifiable identities so access decisions can consider what the request came from, not just who made it.

Zero Trust

A security model that removes implicit trust based on network location and instead verifies every request explicitly against identity, device and context.

macOS

Apple's desktop operating system, managed through the Apple MDM framework with declarative configuration and hardware backed security.

iOS & Android Management

Managing mobile platforms through their own enrolment models, work profiles and application protection frameworks.

Zero Trust Architecture

A reference design in which every access request is authenticated, authorised and encrypted per session, with policy enforced close to the resource.