Jamf, the standard in Apple Enterprise Management, announced it signed an agreement to acquire ZecOps, a leader in mobile detection and response.
This acquisition uniquely positions Jamf to help IT and security teams strengthen their organization’s mobile security posture, accelerating mobile security investigations from weeks to minutes, leverage known indicators of compromise (IOC) at-scale, and identify sophisticated 0 or 1 click attacks on a much deeper scale.
ZecOps will bring important capabilities to the Jamf platform to help address the growing trend of targeted mobile attacks. Jamf offers robust management and mobile security capabilities for iOS devices; however, access to deeper insights into potential security exploits is technically challenging and requires physical access to the device, which is difficult in a remote work environment. ZecOps is a robust, unparalleled solution that provides the deepest layer of insight and assurance for security-conscious customers with high value targets that need something more. ZecOps provides the same level of visibility currently available for macOS through Jamf Protect but for iOS, making it capable of detecting the kinds of sophisticated mobile threats that Apple’s Lockdown mode aims to prevent. With ZecOps, users can have both Lockdown mode and ZecOps software operating at the same time.
Advanced threat hunting on mobile devicesAdvanced protection of mobile devices requires a layered approach. Proactive investigation and analysis complement device management and mobile threat defense for more advanced detections and preventative protections. ZecOps enables advanced threat hunting by capturing and analyzing logs from iOS and Android devices at the operating system layer, allowing security operations and incident response teams to perform automatic or on-demand mobile cyber investigations.
Digital forensics and incident responseSecurity teams are already drowning in data. Event logs, analyst reports, third-party threat intelligence feeds, and more are produced regularly for applications, endpoints, and network infrastructure. Mobile has historically been left out of this data feed. Many investigation teams lack expertise in modern mobile platforms. ZecOps’ sophisticated digital forensics capabilities provides Security Operation Center (SOC) teams with unique mobile threat intelligence to uncover zero-day attacks. ZecOps does the heavy lifting for SOC teams, saving months of work per investigation. The solution automatically constructs a timeline of suspicious events and indicators of compromise to demonstrate when and how a device was impacted.
Dean Hager, CEO, Jamf
I am very excited to bring ZecOps’ market-leading advanced mobile detection and response capabilities into the Jamf platform. We believe ZecOps has built a differentiated solution that meets a very important need for many organizations - the ability to thoroughly detect and investigate threats that target mobile users so they can confidently use these powerful devices for work. This capability further propels our goal of continuing to bridge the gap between what Apple provides and the enterprise requires.
