Introduction to Mobile Security Connector

Mobile Security Connector (formerly Harmony Mobile Connector) is a web-based application that integrates your Mobile Security (formerly Harmony Mobile) dashboard with your on-premises corporate ecosystem (UEM, syslog or SIEM solution, SMTP server for sending emails and so on).

To protect users' Personally Identifiable Information (PII), the Connector encrypts device/user names, email addresses, and phone numbers when accessing the Mobile Security dashboard from the cloud. When accessed locally, within a secure on-premise environment, the dashboard displays decrypted PII, with the Connector decrypting the data in real-time.

Key features:

  • Mobile Security Connector serves as a local proxy that allows organizations to get rid of any incoming communications to their corporate network.

  • Integrates and supports all on-premises Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions.

  • Advanced architecture that provides High Availability.

  • Secured browsing with support for multi-user and secure login to the Mobile Security dashboard from anywhere within the customer’s internal network.

This document describes how to install the Mobile Security Connector and provides the configuration instructions for different deployment scenarios.

Solution Architecture

Component

Description

Cloud Components

Mobile Security Backend

  • Manages communication between clients and the Mobile Security Relay.

  • Sends tasks to Mobile Security Relay and receives task responses.

Mobile Security Relay

  • Executes tasks received from the Mobile Security Backend and sends results back.

  • Executes tasks received from API Dispatcher in connector.

On-Premise Components

Mobile Security Connector

Mobile Security Connector is a proxy application that resides within the organization’s data center that provides an integration interface between your Mobile Security dashboard and your on-prem services.

PII Protector

  • Receives proxy requests from the Mobile Security Admin portal to decode PII content in real-time.

  • Ensures that sensitive PII data remains protected within the on-premises environment.

API Dispatcher

Routes incoming API tasks to the appropriate component (UEM, SIEM, SMTP).

PII Filter

Handles encoding and decoding of PII data.

WWW (Remote Access)

  • Accesses the Mobile Security Admin Portal via the internet.

  • The dashboard displays encrypted PII content.

On-Premise Client (Local Access)

  • Accesses the Mobile Security Admin Portal from within the organization's environment.

  • The connector decrypts the PII content and displays as plain text.

UEM / SIEM / SMTP

  • Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) systems on the on-premise environment.

  • Executes tasks containing user/device data, while preserving PII security protocols.