San Francisco, CA, 17th July 2025: Organizations today operate beyond traditional office spaces. Employees increasingly connect from homes, cafes, and airports on a mix of personal and corporate devices. While this flexibility fuels productivity, it presents distinct security challenges. With diverse access points and devices in action, maintaining security across the entire environment becomes a growing challenge. Even a single unauthorized entry can jeopardize the total safety of corporate data.
To address these challenges head-on, Hexnode is elevating its compliance posture with advanced policies, giving IT administrators the tools to maintain strict security standards. This ensures endpoint devices align with corporate requirements throughout their session, not just during initial login.
Alongside, Hexnode is now onboard with Microsoft Intune as a third-party device compliance partner to leverage conditional access capabilities. This will complement the new compliance framework, guaranteeing that only trusted users on vetted devices can access sensitive data.
Looking ahead, Hexnode plans to extend its zero trust capabilities to include Okta users via Okta Device Trust, further strengthening security across diverse identity platforms.
Smarter Compliance, Fewer Gaps
Organizations must adopt granular and dynamic compliance strategy – one that extends beyond initial authentication and security checks. However, fragmented systems and limited policy options often leave IT admins at a disadvantage when navigating various compliance requirements.
Hexnode addresses this with expanded compliance monitoring and enforcement policies in one unified console.
Hexnode’s enhanced compliance framework provides advanced settings across iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS platforms. Fundamental compliance checks include monitoring device inactivity, geofencing, enforcing password, and application compliance.
For a more comprehensive control over device compliance, Hexnode’s Advanced Compliance Policies provide customizable settings that enable IT teams to:
- Define multi-condition compliance rules
- Enforce policies based on live network status and device health metrics (battery levels, device status, and device encryption)
- Enforce custom security enforcements based on device ownership models (e.g, BYOD or corporate-owned device)
These advanced policies introduce new compliance criteria, enabling administrators to verify that every device meets organizational standards.
Conditional Access: Who Gets In and Who Stays Out
While continuous compliance guarantees device security after entry, controlling the initial gateway is just as vital. Previously, organizations granted employees access to corporate resources based entirely on credentials. This exposed a glaring security gap, allowing unmanaged or non-compliant devices the same unfettered access to sensitive data as trusted endpoints.
To counter these gaps, Hexnode integrates risk-based, context-aware conditional access through Microsoft Intune’s third-party compliance program. Apart from solely relying on credentials, each login is now evaluated against predefined security conditions. Even when credentials check out, any attempts to access corporate data from an unrecognized location or non-compliant device will trigger an authentication process based on the identity signals set by the company, or access will be blocked outright.
This dynamic approach of continuous verification – assessing both the user’s identity and their device – effectively reduces the likelihood of unauthorized entries and data breaches.
Together with Hexnode’s strengthened compliance policies, conditional access delivers a two-pronged defence for corporate data. These enhancements empower IT administrators to uphold Zero Trust security principles, from device onboarding all the way through the user session – ensuring that access and compliance is never compromised.