Cyber Essentials Plus for Mobile

Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) is a vital certification for UK organizations looking to demonstrate robust cybersecurity practices. As mobile devices become integral to modern enterprises, ensuring compliance is essential for security. Jamf provides comprehensive solutions aimed at mobile that help businesses on their path to meeting CE+ requirements -- and maintaining them -- while upholding a seamless user experience.

The Challenge of Securing Mobile Devices for CE+

CE+ mandates strict security controls, including device management, secure authentication and malware prevention. Mobile devices, particularly those running iOS and iPadOS, benefit greatly from a native solution that ensures compliance without impacting productivity.

Key CE+ requirements for mobile security include:

• Device Management: Streamline management by ensuring all devices are enrolled in a management system and security policies are enforced.
• Limit App Usage: Restrict app use only to allow those verified by code-signing to execute.
• Access Control: Requiring passcodes, pins and/or biometrics for authentication.
• Patch Management: Keeping devices updated with the latest OS, security and app patches.
• Malware Protection: Preventing malicious applications and mobile threats.

How Jamf Helps Organizations on Their CE+ Compliance Path

We provide a suite of solutions that align with CE+ requirements, ensuring mobile devices remain secure and compliant.

Device Management and Security Policies

Our mobile device management solution enables organizations to extend security policy enforcement holistically across their entire fleet of mobile devices. With zero-touch deployment, IT teams can configure and secure devices remotely from day one by automating provisioning workflows.

Key capabilities:

• Enforce passcode policies and encryption requirements.
• Restrict unapproved applications and manage approved apps.
• Constantly monitor device status and stay on top of asset inventory.

Strong Access Control and Authentication

CE+ requires organizations to implement access controls to prevent unauthorized access to endpoints and sensitive data. Integrations like Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) solutions restrict access to corporate resources to authorized users.

Key capabilities:

• Achieve identity and access management (IAM) parity across supported mobile platforms (Apple macOS, iOS and iPadOS, Android and Windows.
• Verify user identity and endpoint health with Zero Trust architecture.
• Customize conditional access policies based on your risk appetite.

Automated Updates and Patch Management

Keeping devices up to date is crucial to meet your enterprise compliance initiatives. It is also one of the most time-consuming tasks IT teams face while posing the biggest challenge to user productivity. The ability to automate and enforce system, app and security update deployments throughout a device's lifecycle frees significant time that IT teams can use to develop new workflows, enhance productivity and support business objectives.

Key capabilities:

• Ensure devices receive the latest OS and app updates.
• Enforce mandatory updates to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Empower end users to update their devices using Self Service, minimizing IT overhead.

Malware Protection and Threat Prevention

Real-time threat detection and remediation for mobile protects devices from malware and network-based attacks. Advanced endpoint security operates seamlessly in the background to keep data and users safe while upholding user privacy and minimizing impacts on productivity or device resources from evolving, sophisticated mobile threats targeting all platforms.

Key capabilities:

• Always encrypt network connections, maintaining confidentiality even on public hotspots.
• Provide on-device content filtering to reduce the risk of inappropriate or malicious content.
• Network threat protection keeps devices safeguarded, like zero-day phishing attacks.

Implementing Security without Compromises

Unlike traditional security solutions that often disrupt workflows, Jamf’s unique solution is tailored for mobile devices. It provides comprehensive security without negatively impacting device performance or the end-user experience because of the native integration between management, identity and security. This means organizations have the flexibility to customize Jamf for Mobile to meet their unique compliance requirements while employees continue using their devices without intrusive security measures slowing them down.

Benefits include:

• Seamless onboarding: Zero-touch deployment configures devices from the first startup so employees can start working immediately.
• Privacy-first security: Enforce security baselines without compromising user privacy or comingling business and personal data.
• Parity across platforms: Extend security protections across your infrastructure, ensuring all supported OS and ownership levels meet enterprise standards.
• Maintain compliance: Policy-based management ensures endpoints are secured, protected and immediately brought back into scope.
• Effortless health reporting: Gather rich telemetry and generate compliance reports easily, simplifying audits and CE+ certification.

Conclusion

Achieving Cyber Essentials Plus compliance for mobile devices doesn’t have to be complicated. It should be simple to manage while providing effective security to flexibly support organizational requirements, like CE+ certification. Doing so allows enterprises to confidently manage and secure their mobile and BYO device fleet while maintaining a productive and user-friendly experience.