Why Mobile Device Management Needs Its Own Threat Model

Allowing employees to use their own phones for work sounds simple. Deciding how much control IT should have over those devices is where it gets complicated.

Personally owned smartphones are now a routine part of the corporate environment. The UK government’s 2025/26 Cyber Security Breaches Survey found that, among businesses with cybersecurity policies, 58% said those policies covered the use of personally owned devices for business activities.

Mobile device management (MDM) is one way companies bring some order to a mix of corporate and personal devices. The same platform may be able to register devices, install certificates, push applications, change network settings, and remotely lock or wipe hardware when needed.

With that much authority in one system, risk is no longer limited to individual devices. The MDM server, administrator identities, APIs, onboarding paths, certificates, and integrations create attack paths of their own. That is why MDM needs its own...

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