Enter SCEP

All the installation methods we’ve looked at thus far have limitations that we’ve not been able to reconcile. When you want to encrypt your profiles to include passwords or internal certificates that you don’t want installed on just any device, you’ve had to physically connect your iOS device to a computer running the iPhone Configuration Utility (iPCU), or create a separate configuration profile for every device after physically connecting that device to a computer running iPCU.

That’s okay for small deployments, or when you have devices trickling into your company in small numbers. But what about large deployments, or when you must ready a huge numbers of devices in a hurry? We currently have solutions that scale, but don’t allow us to safely include passwords or proprietary information. Or, we have solutions that are encrypted to include passwords and proprietary information, but they don’t scale for beans.