Integrating policies from a plurality of disparate management agents

A computer storage medium encoding computer readable instructions for executing a method to manage policies of a mobile device, the method comprising:

• receiving a plurality of policy containers from a plurality of management agents, each of the policy containers having at least one policy;
• associating each policy from each of the plurality of policy containers with one of a plurality of categories;
• determining the most secure policy for each of the plurality of categories, wherein the determination is based on a value associated with each policy;
• and
• merging the most secure policy from each of the plurality of categories to create a global policy.

A system configured to manage policy settings of a mobile device, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising computer-program instructions executable by the processor for:
• receiving a first set of policies from a first management agent, each policy of the first set of policies corresponding to a category;
• receiving a second set of policies from a second management agent, each policy of the second set of policies corresponding to a category;
• determining, for each category having an associated policy, a most secure policy, wherein the determination is based on a policy value;
• merging each most secure policy from each category to create a global policy set, wherein the merging is based on one or more rules from a set of merging rules;
• and
• applying the global policy set to the mobile device when the mobile device connects to the first management agent and applying the policy set to the mobile device when the mobile device connects to the second management agent.