Jamf Blog

Mobile Threat Defense solutions are all concerned with one thing only: ensuring the security of your mobile devices against malware, network-based attacks and the overall reduction of risk that modern-day security threats pose to the mobile user base.

In this blog post, we discuss Mobile Threat Defense and answer the following questions along the way:

• What is it?
• How does it work?
• What are the benefits?

Every so often updates are made to the way an API to one of our products works. Today is such a day and this blog will give you a preview of the changes coming to Jamf Protect, aimed at helping you work smarter - not harder.

Patching the critical flaw exploited by Pegasus, Apple’s newest releases target the OS and software to fully protect your devices against this vulnerability that has been reported as actively exploited in the wild.

A zero-day discovery allows an attacker to bypass Apple’s TCC protections which safeguard privacy. By leveraging an installed application with the proper permissions set, the attacker can piggyback off that donor app when creating a malicious app to execute on victim devices, without prompting for user approval.

Now, this is not about the best ride at Epcot. In this article, I am going to walk you through using Jamf Protect and Jamf Pro together to create customized remediation workflows. This will allow you to create Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)-like functionality for your Mac fleet by leveraging policies created in Jamf Pro to remediate detections based on Jamf Protect.

Standardize your organization's endpoint security and management workflows by leveraging the macOS Security Compliance Project, which provides guidance from leading government Information Security agencies for organizations to enhance and maintain a strong security posture to protect endpoints and data.

Shlayer malware detected allows an attacker to bypass Gatekeeper, Notarization and File Quarantine security technologies in macOS. The exploit allows unapproved software to run on Mac and is distributed via compromised websites or poisoned search engine results.

Josh Harvey and Allen Golbig of NASA share their Jamf implementation story and explain how organizations can securely provide their employees with the technology they prefer while delivering the best possible user experience.