Jamf Nation User Conference showcases Jamf’s new and upcoming product innovations that will help organizations simplify and secure work
September 27 2022 - 12:00PM
Today, Jamf (NASDAQ: JAMF), the standard in Apple Enterprise
Management, kicked off its 13th annual Jamf Nation User Conference
(JNUC) both virtually and in-person in San Diego, California.
Joined by partners including Apple, Google, Okta, Microsoft, Amazon
Web Services and SwiftConnect, Jamf shared how its continuous
product innovation is helping organizations succeed with Apple in a
rapidly evolving work environment.
“The focus of this year’s JNUC is simplifying the management and
security of devices used for work. In order to do this, we are
asking Jamf Nation two questions: do your users love the technology
they are using for work, and do your IT and security teams trust
that technology? Our focus at Jamf is to ensure the answer to both
of those questions is a resounding ‘yes’, with something we call
Trusted Access,” said Dean Hager, CEO of Jamf. “Trusted Access puts
enrollment at the foundation – whether for a BYO or
corporately-owned device – and establishes the user as trusted. It
also ensures only safe devices are able to access work resources to
keep company data protected. For those devices that are enrolled
and safe, their access to resources is completely seamless. The
user can work anywhere, access all the corporate resources they
need, and do not require multiple passcodes to remain
productive.”Key highlights of JNUC 2022 include:A new way
to BYOD Bring your own device (BYOD) programs have
gained even more traction over the last two years, as the lines
between work and home technology blur and more work is done on
mobile devices. After rolling out a new BYOD offering earlier this
year, Jamf kicked off JNUC by demonstrating their own internal
deployment for BYOD devices all built on Jamf and Apple-specific
workflows. These features are intended to eliminate the common
practice where employees carry two mobile phones — one for work and
one personal. Key capabilities of this new workflow include:
- Employee self-enrollment and setup with no action needed from
IT
- Device partitioning for secure work with a separate partition
for personal privacy
- Cloud identity-based single sign-on for all work applications
and access to corporate data
- Self-Service app installations with app-based security
automatically set up
- Next-gen cloud VPN private access to enterprise resources with
no setup required by users
- Automatic zero-trust blocking of all compromised users and
devices
- Enterprise ID cards procured and placed in Apple Wallet for
access to physical offices
- Simple workflows to setup dual eSims, supporting one work phone
line and one personal
- Apple’s Focus mode to transform BYOD iPhones to work-only or
personal-only for better work life balance
Device security out-of-the-box The
unboxing and onboarding experience is an important one, especially
today as more and more employees sign in for the first time from
home. Jamf has taken zero-touch deployment to the next level,
providing a simple experience that users love. Jamf-managed Apple
devices can be shipped directly to an end user, ready for automatic
configuration for an individual’s use and fully secured against
on-device and in-network security threats from the moment the
device is powered up for the first time. Jamf’s endpoint
security suite can now ensure macOS and iOS devices are configured
correctly and secured against cyber attacks from first boot with a
new app called Jamf Trust. The Jamf Trust app binds user identity
to the device so that Jamf’s security services are dynamically
configured according to user identity and role, and carried through
to their application access, streamlining the need to enter
credentials and verify identity.Additionally, next month Jamf
Protect will gain rich endpoint telemetry data collection along
with a new offline deployment mode that streams telemetry data
directly to a SIEM for customers with high compliance
requirements.Just in the last 12 months, Jamf has scanned more than
430 million unique domains. By measuring a multitude of dimensions
of these sites, including top-level domains, subdomain entropy,
domain compositions and brand impersonation, Jamf has been able to
identify and block more than 122,000 zero-day phishing attacks just
in the last year.Yesterday, Jamf announced it signed a definitive
agreement to acquire ZecOps, a leader in mobile detection and
response. The acquisition uniquely positions Jamf to help IT and
security teams strengthen their organization’s security posture
through an app that detects indicators of compromise on mobile
devices, accelerating a mobile security investigation from weeks to
minutes, and on a much deeper scale.Always updated
softwareFor the past two decades, Jamf has provided
same-day readiness with new Apple operating systems. Last year at
JNUC, Jamf tackled an additional software problem for users and IT
administrators: keeping apps updated. With the introduction of App
Installers within the Jamf App Catalog, Jamf made third party
software updates for macOS, which constitutes 80% of all Mac apps
run by Jamf customers, as simple as App Store updates.At this
year’s JNUC, Jamf announced it has grown its monitored software to
over one thousand titles, and now offers more than one hundred App
Installers designed to substantially lower the work effort for IT
while improving the security posture of an organization’s fleet of
devices. App Installers are pre-vetted and maintained (patched,
updated, monitored for risk) over the lifespan of the
device. Jamf also announced new App Installer features to be
delivered in the near future, including improved user notifications
and simplifying App installation within Self Service to ensure only
apps relevant to the user and authorized by IT are displayed in
their customized app catalog.Multi-layered zero trust
accessJamf has taken its patented Smart Group technology
to the next level by synthesizing multiple layers of data including
user, device and new risk data into powerful security workflows
that allow organizations to identify threats and take action on
that information automatically.With Jamf’s unmatched Apple device
inventory and controls, Jamf is able to block access to Apple
devices or specific capabilities on the device when a compliance
issue has been detected. Additionally, working with cloud identity
providers like Okta, Jamf can now enforce use of Private Access to
ensure only protected devices with encrypted data can run
enterprise apps, while automatically blocking compromised users and
devices.Furthermore, Jamf announced deeper integration with leading
Cloud providers Microsoft and Google.
- Microsoft Device Compliance: The next generation of the
Microsoft Device Compliance integration will be available for macOS
later this year, a technology currently available on iOS, which
will align the full power of Microsoft Device Compliance
consistently across all Apple devices. This new workflow will allow
admins to fully define compliance with any Smart Group criteria,
including the newly added device risk score.
- Google BeyondCorp: Jamf will also be supporting BeyondCorp,
Google’s context-aware zero trust framework on iOS devices in early
2023, an integration that is currently available to Jamf customers
on Mac.
The combination of these new zero-trust capabilities provides
multiple layers of organizational protection by using device health
scores and Smart Groups to block non-compliant usage at device,
network and cloud layers. Modernized access to the
physical workspacePlastic access badges to office spaces
will soon be a thing of the past. Earlier this year, Jamf enabled
employee badge in Apple Wallet so that its employees could
conveniently and securely access Jamf offices with just a simple
tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch. Jamf and SwiftConnect are
working together to allow businesses to seamlessly enable employee
badges in Apple Wallet for their organizations in the near
future.Unmatched visibility into Mac fleetJamf is
ready to provide support for Apple’s new Declarative Device
Management functionality. This means the device will proactively
report its status in real-time and then action can be automated or
user-driven to get the device into a new state for security,
compliance or productivity reasons.Additionally, as announced last
week, Jamf and AWS showcased their new partnership to automatically
enroll virtual EC2 Macs into Jamf Pro when they are provisioned
through the AWS portal. This provides IT administrators visibility
into the entire Mac fleet — both physical and virtual.
Additionally, administrators can now use Jamf to deploy policies,
configurations and software to their virtual Macs while collecting
a full complement of inventory details about the computer and the
EC2 environment it’s running in.
Delivering in early 2023, Jamf announced a new Remote Access
feature that will empower IT admins with the ability to
authenticate and take remote control of any Mac in their fleet —
both physical and virtual — directly from within Jamf Pro. In a
hybrid work world, this capability substantially improves IT’s
ability to support users and devices anywhere in the
world. Empowering students while keeping them
safeLaunched earlier this year for macOS and iOS, Jamf
Safe Internet ensures students have a safe and secure online
learning environment from the moment they unbox their device. This
online student safety product is coming soon to Chromebook and
Windows devices in early 2023. Earlier this month, Jamf added
support for Google Safe Search and YouTube restricted mode within
Safe Internet giving organizations more robust control over access
to content that is hosted on Google sites and ensures that policies
aimed at student safety are consistently applied.Innovation
HubsFinally, Jamf announced the expansion of their MATTER
Innovation Hub program, opening five new hubs within the last year.
This program is designed to deliver state-of-the-art solar-powered
Apple classrooms to under-resourced locations across town and
across the world. Jamf and MATTER have now partnered to open a
total of 14 MATTER Innovation Hubs currently impacting the lives of
over 5,000 students. For more information or to register for
JNUC 2022, visit:
https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2022/About
JamfJamf’s purpose is to simplify work by helping
organizations manage and secure an Apple experience that end users
love and organizations trust. Jamf is the only company in the world
that provides a complete management and security solution for an
Apple-first environment that is enterprise secure, consumer simple
and protects personal privacy. To learn more, visit
www.jamf.com.Media Contact:Liarna La Porta |
media@jamf.comInvestor Contact:Jennifer Gaumond |
ir@jamf.com
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