Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools provide a robust solution for managing and monitoring company devices, ensuring that employee computers are configured securely. Vanta currently offers connections with several popular MDM solutions on the market, which can be seen on the integrations page in your Vanta dashboard.
Are you looking to transition from the Vanta Device Monitor to an MDM? Update your Device Monitoring onboarding requirements?
The Vanta Device Monitor can continue as a supplementary option alongside your MDM. The Task set settings allow you to choose whether you would like the Vanta Device Monitor to be a requirement for all devices or only for devices without an MDM.
Installing the Device Monitor on Devices without an MDM
Enable this option to monitor your computers with your MDM by default, and the Vanta Device Monitor will be used as a secondary monitoring option.
You may choose this option if your MDM doesn’t support all of your employees' computers. For example, your MDM might only support macOS, but some of your employees use Windows. There is no need to leave your Windows computers unmonitored; use the Vanta Device Monitor.
This option allows you to view users who do not have a monitored device registered. You can then install your preferred MDM on those devices, ask users to install the Vanta Device Monitor, or exempt them from this onboarding requirement.
Require Vanta Device Monitor Monitoring on all Devices
Monitor your computers with your MDM and the Vanta Device Monitor. Keep the Vanta Monitoring devices connected to a Mobile Device Management (MDM) tool on all computers and add your MDM as well. You may choose this option if your MDM does not detect all configurations required to secure your employee computers and pass Vanta’s security tests.
Stop Requiring Vanta Device Monitor Monitoring
You can disable device monitoring altogether as an onboarding requirement within Vanta, managing this directly within your MDM platform.
Assets with the integrated MDM installed will continue to be visible on the Computers page to monitor the device's security-relevant settings; however, users with unmonitored devices will no longer be tracked on the Unmonitored tab
Check if a Device is Monitored by an MDM or the Vanta Device Monitor
A device monitoring source can be viewed from the computers page or the Computers tab on a user profile. From this table, you can view how each computer is being monitored.
If a computer has both the Vanta Device Monitor and your MDM installed, you will see both options for this device.
Remove the Vanta Device Monitor
Uninstall the Vanta Device Monitor from a device, and follow these instructions based on the machine's Operating System (OS)
Once a Vanta Device Monitor is uninstalled, Vanta will no longer pick up updates for that device through the Vanta Device Monitor. Monitors/Tests will depend on data retrieved from your MDM.