How to Use Secure UEM MAM Email in Android & iOS Apps

Mobile apps may contain or allow users to share email links inside the app. Other mobile apps may try to directly open an email client to allow a user to send email. Some email clients could be malicious. Many email clients are not built with the security that enterprise organizations demand. As such, EMMs usually provide their own secure email client, and try to enforce using the client via the EMM’s DLP policies. However, most mobile apps are designed to access any or native email clients available to the app. The EMM’s SDK and DLP policy adds the secure email client to the list of potential email clients available to the app. However, without restricting the app’s permissions to use only the secure email client, an EMM’s DLP policies will not be effective.

This knowledge Base article provides step-by-step instructions for using Appdome’s Connect Secure Email feature to limit emails to the secure email client only. This ensures that any iOS and Android mobile app uses only the secure email client, and not all email clients otherwise available to the app.

How to Use Secure UEM MAM Email in Android & iOS Apps

Appdome is a no-code mobile app security platform designed to add security features in mobile apps.

Appdome’s no-code mobile app security platform offers mobile developers, DevSec and security professionals a convenient and reliable way to protect Android and iOS apps without coding. When a user clicks “Build My App,” Appdome leverages a microservice architecture filled with 1000s of security plugins, and an adaptive code generation engine that matches the correct required plugins to the development environment, frameworks, and methods in each app.

Using Appdome, there are no development or coding prerequisites to build secured apps. There is no SDK and no library to manually code or implement in the app. The Appdome technology adds the relevant standards, frameworks, stores, and logic to the app automatically, with no manual development work at all.

Likewise, there are no required infrastructure changes. Mobile developers do not need to modify their apps, add EMM SDKs or remove existing permissions for email clients inside the app. The Appdome technology adds automatically any EMM SDK, Secure Email Client, and relevant standards, frameworks, configurations and more to the app automatically, with no manual development work at all.

Using Appdome, mobile apps will adhere to your EMM security and Secure Email Client policy as if the EMM SDK and the Secure Email Client was natively coded to the app. Appdome for Enterprise Mobility is compatible with mobile apps built in any development environment including Native Android and iOS apps, hybrid apps and non-native apps built in Maui, Xamarin, Cordova, and React Native, Ionic and more. This streamlines implementations, cuts development work, and ensures a guaranteed and consistent integration of any EMM SDK and Secure Email Clients to any mobile app.

Connect Secure Email is Appdome’s solution for ensuring EMM DLP policies are enforced even when re-directed to Mail links and addresses. Securing Email is done by ensuring Apps Fused with an EMM policy will open email links with a Secure Email Client exclusively.

Prerequisites for using Appdome’s Connect Secure Email

In order to use Appdome’s no code Connect Secure Email you’ll need:

• Appdome account – IDEAL or Higher.
• Mobile App (Android .apk or .aab, or iOS .ipa)
• An EMM Environment such as Intune, VMWare Workspace ONE (AirWatch) or BlackBerry Good
• DLP policy that supports Secure Email Client Lock-down. For example:
  • Microsoft Intune DLP configuration instructions can be found here
  • BlackBerry Dynamics DLP configuration instructions can be found here
• Signing Credentials (e.g., signing certificates and provisioning profile)