app wrapping (application wrapping)
App wrapping is the process of applying a management layer to a mobile app without requiring
any changes to the underlying application.
App wrapping allows a mobile
application management administrator to set specific policy elements that can be applied to an
application or group of applications. Policy elements can include such things as whether or not
user authentication is
required for a specific app, whether or not data associated with the app can be stored on the
device and whether or not specific APIs such
as copy and paste or file sharing will be
allowed.
In the enterprise, app wrapping allows an administrator to take an application, associate extra
security and management features with it and re-deploy it as a single containerized program in an
enterprise
app store.
Contributor(s): Colin Steele
This was last updated in July 2012
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