Device Security Features - How to prevent keyboard hijacking by whitelisting 3rd party keyboards?

Device Security Features - How to prevent keyboard hijacking by whitelisting 3rd party keyboards?

Hello and Welcome to WeGuard Enterprise Visual Knowledge-base Series.
In this KB article, We will explain the procedure of whitelisting 3rd party keyboards.

Have you ever heard data breach can also happen through the keyboard?
Allowing the workforce to use an unauthorized 3rd party keyboard can cause severe loss to any organization as it can leak the data to personal containers. By default, WeGuard allows default keyboards on the registered devices; however, to use external or 3rd party keyboards, they should be whitelisted first in the EMM console.
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  • Login to WeGuard Console with valid credentials.
  • Go to policy groups by clicking on "Policy Groups" in left navigation menu
  • Go to policy details by clicking on the policy name . For this article, we will use a Work Managed policy.


  • Go to Security tab, scroll down a bit and notice "Permitted Input Methods"
  • By default the restriction is disabled. To whitelist 3rd party keyboard, enable the option and provide package name of the application that controls 3rd party keyboard.


 
                 

  • After adding the package name to the policy, click on Save and Continue to impose the policy on all devices tagged to the policy.
  • From a security standpoint WeGuard allows to whitelist five 3rd party keyboards for now. Clicking on "+" will let admins add other keyboard package names.


 
                
 
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