Aurora Center Mobile Device Management Platform

The Aurora Center mobile device management platform, developed by the Russian company Open Mobile Platform, together with devices based on the Aurora OS platform allows you to build a trusted and secure mobile environment for corporate and government customers, guaranteeing secure employee access to corporate and state information systems.

The Aurora Center solution provides centralized management of the mobile fleet and the mobile software used based on scenarios and security policies - from OS updates and application installation and launch to enterprise data protection, including removal in the event of a device loss.

2023

Jatoba DBMS Compatibility

A series of compatibility tests in the work of Jatoba DBMS products and the Aurora Center management platform has been completed. This was announced on October 31, 2023 by Gazinformservice (GIS). Read more here.

Compatibility with ViPNet Client 4U and ViPNet PKI Client

Experts from InfoTeCS and Open Mobile Platform conducted research and confirmed the compatibility and correctness of the installation, operation and update of ViPNet Client 4U, ViPNet PKI Client products on the Aurora Center platform and their compatibility with the Aurora Market enterprise trusted application store. InfoTeCS announced this on October 24, 2023.

Aurora Center is a UEM solution that allows you to manage devices and the lifecycle of applications on Aurora, Android and Linux. Aurora Center improves security and reduces the cost of administering a fleet of enterprise devices and applications.

Cooperation between InfoTeCS and the Open Mobile Platform is a long-term productive work. We not only test the correct collaboration of our products, but also exchange expertise so that our developments are user-friendly and provide the degree of security they expect by choosing ViPNet and Aurora OS. We are glad to note the increasing interest in the Russian UEM solution. Colleagues from the Open Mobile Platform offer a product that allows you to migrate from foreign EMM systems and build an independent and trusted mobile environment. With the active participation of partner companies, they quickly respond to market needs and offer up-to-date functionality in their products and services, "said Nikolai Smirnov, Product Director of InfoTeCS.

Using the Aurora Center system, companies can control the release cycle of applications within their organization, independently perform internal tests of specific versions of applications on dedicated users, and install these applications on the desired groups of devices. To ensure the security and compatibility of Aurora Center and ViPNet solutions, we conducted joint testing of ViPNet Client 4U and ViPNet PKI Client. As a result, device park administrators can receive the latest product versions with confidence in the compatibility of these solutions, "said Alexander Konin, lead product manager at Aurora Center.

Aurora Center 4.0

The company "Open Mobile Platform" presented on September 25, 2023 an updated release of the Russian platform for managing corporate mobile devices Aurora Center 4.0, which adds:

• full support for collection terminals data (shipping documentation) on the platform Android for industrial use in companies, and, retail logistics which productions allows companies and organizations to untie the fleet of Android devices from foreign EMM tools for managing them;
• Support for workstations and terminals on the platform Linux (based on domestic OS Alt and) Astra Linux for industrial applications in companies with a large fleet of Linux devices that require management.

The Aurora Center 4.0 release allows you to manage Android devices OS , providing a single control center for various mobile devices of the organization - from work smartphones to tablets data collection terminals (shipping documentation), which can be used in warehouses, in delivery, on production lines, etc. In this release, it became possible to configure devices for working in kiosk mode, deliver and update corporate applications, limit the operation of devices in the contour of premises, etc.

Also, the Aurora Center UEM platform gives service providers or organizations the ability to service a fleet of devices of several organizations or departments with independent settings, data and administrators from one deployed copy of the Aurora Center, which significantly reduces the requirements for resources for servicing the general infrastructure.

Aurora Center, a UEM tool for managing a fleet of mobile devices, has proven itself on corporate mobility projects, including the All-Russian Population Census.

Aurora Center platform is a UEM solution that we created based on the experience of using and developing such systems, taking into account the requirements of Russian customers. This made it possible to make a productive, scalable, fault-tolerant and easy-to-use product. The product is created and developed with the active participation of our customers, with whom we are in constant dialogue. Most of the changes are a response to requests from companies and organizations that plan to migrate from foreign EMM systems and want to build an independent and trusted mobile environment. commented Peter Filippov, director of the Aurora Center product.

Among the updated features of the Aurora Center 4.0 platform:

• an updated management interface that makes it easier for the administrator to put devices into operation and configure them in the target state;
• expanding the configuration options of various devices using security policies - control over the functionality available to the user (peripherals, interfaces, resources);
• switching devices to kiosk mode to restrict the use of devices only for their intended purpose;
• possibility of sending operational commands in case of loss or theft of the device;
• improved push communications for fast synchronization of devices running Aurora and Android;
• installing, removing, and updating enterprise applications by an administrator or user from the Aurora Market trusted repository;
• Improved performance of server and mobile components
• enforcement of security policies and delivery of applications on OS Linux (OS Alt and Astra Linux, including certified versions);
• Support for updated versions of Aurora on all available devices and application ecosystems.

This version of the Aurora Center 4.0 management platform has been tested with a wide range of mobile devices and data collection terminals from various manufacturers and is available to corporate users of Android devices and users of Aurora devices with valid technical support of all levels.

Aurora Center 3.2

On March 21, 2023, Open Mobile Platform announced the release of an updated version of the Russian Aurora Center corporate mobile device management platform (version 3.2). The update expands the capabilities of the platform in the corporate segment and allows companies and organizations using foreign EMM solutions to transfer to it.

Aurora Center 3.2

According to the company, key changes in Aurora Center 3.2 include optimized integration with Microsoft Active Directory, user certificate management and push service for Android. The updated version of the platform integrates with the LDAP directory, configures connection parameters to Microsoft Active Directory (MS AD) through the console interface to regularly synchronize groups of MS AD users whose devices can be managed in Aurora Center 3.2. This optimizes the commissioning and inventory of mobile devices.

Integration with Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) allows you to set synchronization settings with the Certification Authority, deliver and delete user and root certificates to managed devices. The updated capabilities optimize the level of security for the use of corporate mobile devices at secure facilities or in the contour of warehouse and service premises.

The updated version of Aurora Center supports push notifications on Android devices. This significant change eliminates the use of an external push service. Google For example, now administrators "Aurora Center "can send control commands to a controlled fleet of Android devices with guaranteed urgent delivery, regardless of external factors and the policy of the Android OS manufacturer.

Aurora Center 3.2 implements additional policies for managing Android-based devices, previously available only on the Aurora OS. In particular, you can prohibit or allow the use of Bluetooth, cameras, outgoing calls, changes in date and time, transferring the device to airplane mode, taking screenshots. Offline scenarios have added the ability to prohibit the use of the camera if the device has left a certain area covered by a wireless network. Updated policies provide platform administrators with even more control over their working devices.

Aurora Center 3.2 is already available for ordering and testing by customers with existing technical support at all levels and integrator partners.

2022

Certification of version 3.1.1 of FSTEC of Russia for compliance with the requirements of technical specifications and level 4 of trust

Updated versions of Aurora OS and Aurora Center management platform are certified by FSTEC of Russia. This was announced on November 7, 2022 by the Open Mobile Platform (OMP) company.

The existing certificates of conformity of the FSTEC of Russia No. 4220and No. 4203 have been expanded.

The latest version of the Aurora mobile OS - 4.0.2.175 - has been certified by the FSTEC of Russia and fully complies with the requirements for operating systems of type "A" of class 4 of protection and level 4 of trust.

Also passed the certification of the FSTEC of Russia and the version of Aurora Center 3.1.1 for compliance with the requirements of the Technical Specifications and the 4th level of trust.

The available certificates confirm the possibility of using the Aurora OS and Aurora Center in such IP as:

• security class I information systems;
• APCS I class of security;
• information systems for processing PDn if it is necessary to ensure the 1st level of PDn security;
• Class II public information systems.

Regular certification of the latest versions of Aurora OS and Aurora Center management platform allows us to provide customers with a reliable solution for building a trusted mobile infrastructure, including client (mobile OS) and server (management platform) parts and communication channels between them. Such a decision minimizes the risks of not only leakage of confidential information, but also sanctions risks, "said Sergey Anosov, Product Director of Open Mobile Platform.

Version 3.1.1 compatibility with Red OS

Russian developers Open Mobile Platform and RED SOFT have confirmed the compatibility of the Aurora Center 3.1.1 management platform with the RED OS operating system. OMP announced this on September 13, 2022.

The Aurora Center mobile fleet management platform has proven itself on large corporate mobility projects in Russia. As part of the import substitution program, many projects are now being implemented on the stack of domestic technologies, in particular using certified server operating systems, "said Anatoly Petrov, director of management platform development at Open Mobile Platform. - We are pleased to offer companies and organizations our management platform, which can be used on the Russian RED OS.

The market needs complex domestic solutions that will help solve problems of various levels without using foreign technologies. The confirmed compatibility of the Aurora Center platform with RED OS will allow customers to build work in the field of corporate mobility, including at critical information infrastructure facilities, adhering to the import substitution program, "commented Rustam Rustamov, Deputy General Director of RED SOFT.

Aurora Center 3.1

On June 24, 2022, the Open Mobile Platform company presented the release of the Russian Aurora Center 3.1 enterprise mobile device management platform, which adds:

• full support smartphones tablets on the platform Android for industrial use, which allows companies and organizations to untie the fleet of Android devices from services Google and abandon other EMM tools for managing them;
• multitenance: the ability to maintain a fleet of devices of several organizations or departments with independent settings, data and administrators from one deployed Aurora Center platform, which optimizes the requirements for resources for maintaining a common infrastructure.

Aurora Center 3.1

According to the company, the Aurora Center 3.1 release allows you to add Android devices to the tested control loop OS , providing a single control center and subsequent migration to Aurora OS of all mobile devices in the organization.

Among the updated features of the Aurora Center 3.1 platform:

• Updated management interface that optimizes administrator filtering and searching for devices and users, combining security policies and assigning offline scripts, and inventory and monitor device health
• Role-based access control model (RBAC) controlled by administrators
• configuration of devices using security policies - control over the functionality available to the user (peripherals, interfaces, resources);
• possibility of sending operational commands in case of loss or theft of the device;
• changing push communications for fast synchronization of devices on Aurora OS;
• installing, removing, and updating enterprise applications by an administrator or user from the Aurora Market trusted repository;
• the ability to update the Aurora OS on a schedule, including on specific devices;
• optimized performance of server and mobile components.

An updated version of the Aurora Center 3.1 management platform is available to customers of Aurora OS devices, as well as users with current technical support at all levels.

2021

The main tasks and capabilities of the Aurora Center platform

According to information for August 2021, one of the differences between Aurora Center and other EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) platforms is that the platform was originally developed as part of a fully Russian stack of solutions for building an independent mobile environment. From device to application solution and service: technology (smartphones and other electronics), mobile platforms (operating systems) and software (applications for working on platforms). The main tasks - increasing employee productivity and ensuring security - are solved by using only controlled mobile devices and trusted mobile applications on the Aurora OS platform.

Among the capabilities of the Aurora Center centralized management platform:

• control of hardware functions of devices (using a camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc.);
• Install, update, and uninstall applications without user input
• updating and controlling versions of the Aurora OS on devices;
• blocking devices, deleting data from them on demand;
• Inventory and monitor device health and user activity
• control over the functionality available to the user (peripherals, interfaces, network resources);
• Aurora Market Enterprise App Store.

Aurora Market is a corporate store of trusted applications, the installation and update of which is fully controlled by the administrator of the Aurora Center. Application management, creation, and update services and the application repository can be deployed internally. Aurora Center is easily deployed on the customer's territory, integrates with existing services in the organization and scales to hundreds of thousands of users and devices.

Contour creation is carried out through the joint work of the Aurora Center solution on the Alt 8 SP certified OS with DBMSostgres Pro. There is also support for CentOS OS and several SMTs that have received FSTEC certification. This allows you to use Aurora Center and devices with Aurora OS in state organizations or companies where the issue of security is under special control. You can import data from LDAP systems into Aurora Center to quickly start working with user accounts that are subject to enterprise mobility. Aurora Center requires standard server power for modern corporate systems.

Trusted secure mobile environment for enterprise and government customers

Aurora Center 2.2.2

According to information for August 2021, the Aurora Center 2.2.2 version allows:

• support up to 500,000 mobile devices on the Aurora OS simultaneously;
• commissioning mobile devices, resetting and changing the password/PIN on the device;
• Filter and sort devices, users, and policies in the management console.
• Create, assign, edit, and enforce policies on devices, and monitor device compliance with these policies in the management console.
• perform diagnostics and audit of events from devices, operator actions, application of policies, obtain logs from devices for detailed study;
• Add or remove devices, users, and user groups.

Aurora Center 2.2.1

The Aurora Center management platform (release 2.2.1) is certified for compliance with technical specifications and the fourth level of trust. Certification was carried out in accordance with the new "Information Security Requirements of the FSTEC of Russia," which introduced the concept of trust levels and their classification, and confirms, that Aurora OS and Aurora Center management platform can be used at Category 1 critical information infrastructure facilities, in state information systems of the 1st security class, in automated control systems of production and technological processes of the 1st security class, in personal data information systems, if it is necessary to ensure the 1st level of personal data security, in public information systems of class II. That is, in any information systems that do not process state secrets.

2020

View Updated Site

"Open Mobile Platform" on October 8, 2020 presented the uroraos.ru - the website of the domestic mobile OS Aurora and the Aurora Center management platform. Read more here.

Inclusion in the Register of Domestic Software

The decision to include the Aurora Center platform in the Register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation was made on August 14, 2020.

Aurora Center Platform Capabilities

The Aurora Center platform as a whole provides:

• Increase employee productivity = use of controlled mobile devices and trusted mobile applications
• appropriate level of mobile security = setting up the required security policies on users' corporate mobile devices.

As of June 2020, among the possibilities of the Aurora Center:

• Deploy to Customer Infrastructure
• Import users from Active Directory
• Centralized management of mobile devices on OS Aurora
• Combining policies to create complex rules
• Configuration of devices using policies - control over the functionality available to the user (peripherals, interfaces, resources, network)
• Installation, removal and updating of enterprise applications by the administrator from the Aurora Market Trusted Application Store
• Inventory and monitoring of monitored devices
• Remote cleaning of enterprise data when a device is lost
• Updating the OS on devices on a schedule

The administrator monitors and updates work applications, receives installation status, and much more. Application management, creation, and update services and the repository can be deployed internally.

PPO Aurora Center has the following certificate state of bodies: certificate FSTEC No. 4203, valid until December 30, 2024.

In the summer of 2020, the first pilots were sold to customers.

First release

The first release of the Aurora Center platform was released in May 2020.

2019: Start of development

The development of the Aurora Center platform started in February 2019.