Enhance Mobile Device Security with Senturo’s Group Assignments for MDM Control

Senturo's Group Assignments feature gives administrators granular control over which device groups each user can access within the Senturo platform. Rather than giving all users visibility into the full device fleet, admins can scope each user's view to only the devices relevant to their role, site, or team. The feature works alongside any existing MDM integration (Jamf, Intune, Google Admin, or Meraki).

Key takeaways

• Group Assignments lets admins assign specific device groups to individual Senturo users, limiting what each user can see and act on.
• Users only interact with devices relevant to their role, reducing security risk and interface clutter.
• Designed for multi-site organizations: school districts, hospital networks, retail chains, and field services teams.
• Works alongside your existing MDM (Jamf, Intune, Google Admin, or Meraki) without replacing it.
• Available now in the Senturo platform for IT Directors, CIOs, and Sysadmins.

How Group Assignments Improve Mobile Device Management

Senturo’s Group Assignments feature enables administrators to grant access rights to specific device groups for designated users. This ensures each user interacts only with devices relevant to their role, reducing security risks and operational clutter. Fully integrated with the Senturo platform, it complements your existing MDM solution with powerful physical device security and tracking capabilities.

How it works technically

In the Senturo dashboard, an admin creates device groups (for example: "School A Devices," "Ward 3 Tablets," or "Region North Fleet"). Each group contains the devices relevant to a particular site, team, or function.

The admin then assigns one or more groups to individual Senturo users. Once assigned, those users only see and can act on devices within their assigned groups. Actions available within the user's scope include: viewing device location, triggering Missing Mode, sending broadcast messages, and initiating remote lock or wipe, depending on their permission level.

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Key Benefits of Senturo’s Group Assignments

• Improved Security: Minimize vulnerabilities by restricting access to authorized devices only.
• Enhanced Usability: Simplify the interface for users by focusing only on their relevant devices.
• Scalable Delegation: Empower regional teams with secure autonomy, ideal for multi-location organizations.

Industry Use Cases for Secure Device Delegation

Education

A U.S. K-12 district managing over 20,000 students across 30 school sites uses Group Assignments to empower onsite technicians. With centralized IT resources, the district delegates device access to school-specific tech teams, allowing them to:

• Remotely lock lost or stolen devices without needing access to the full district fleet
• Broadcast urgent alerts to specific school sites

Healthcare, Retail, and Field Services

In healthcare, retail, or field services organizations spanning multiple regions, Group Assignments enable secure local control without exposing the full fleet to every operator.

Healthcare

A hospital network uses Group Assignments to give department administrators access only to their ward's tablets and laptops. If a device goes missing from a clinical ward, the department admin can trigger a lock and track the device without IT needing to intervene centrally. This supports HIPAA device control requirements by creating a clear audit trail of who accessed which device actions and when.

Retail

A national retail chain assigns each store manager visibility over their store's POS tablets and staff devices only. Regional managers see all stores within their territory. Central IT retains full fleet visibility.

Field services

A field services company assigns each team lead access to the devices carried by their crew. Devices outside a team lead's assigned group are invisible to them, preventing accidental actions on other teams' equipment.

Future-Proof Your Device Strategy

Group Assignments is built for IT Directors, CIOs, and Sysadmins managing device fleets across multiple sites, teams, or departments. It is particularly valuable for organizations where a single centralized IT team cannot realistically monitor and respond to incidents across every location in real time.

Getting started with Group Assignments

Group Assignments is available now in the Senturo platform. To set it up:

• In the Senturo dashboard, navigate to the Organization and Grouping section to create device groups.
• Assign users to specific groups under Users and Access settings.
• Each user's dashboard will automatically reflect only their assigned device groups.

The feature works with all Senturo MDM integrations.

Frequently asked questions

What is Group Assignments in Senturo?

Group Assignments is a Senturo feature that lets administrators assign specific device groups to individual users. Each user only sees and can act on the devices in their assigned groups, enabling role-based access control across large or multi-site device fleets.

How is Group Assignments different from standard MDM user permissions?

Standard MDM platforms like Jamf, Intune, and Google Admin Console control device policy and enrollment permissions. Senturo's Group Assignments controls visibility and action scope within the Senturo tracking and recovery platform specifically, which sits alongside your MDM. A user with Group Assignments can lock, track, and manage only their assigned devices in Senturo, even if they have broader permissions in the MDM itself.

Can a user be assigned to multiple device groups?

Yes. Admins can assign one or more device groups to each user, giving flexibility for users who need visibility across multiple sites or teams without granting full fleet access.

Does Group Assignments work with all MDM integrations?

Yes. Group Assignments works alongside all four Senturo MDM integrations: Jamf Pro, Microsoft Intune, Google Admin Console, and Cisco Meraki. It does not require changes to your existing MDM configuration.

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