Review: Jamf Pro with Jamf Cloud Scales Device Management for MacOS

Jamf Offers Powerful Endpoint Security for Higher Education

After recently reviewing Jamf Pro with Jamf Cloud for MacOS, I approached the testing of this product with a fair amount of knowledge around the manual and onerous nature of installing, maintaining and managing security policies for even a small number of devices. This management is often complicated with Apple products because they are riddled with hard-to-track mobility features and often vary widely in specifications.

The ease of use and the simplification of such a complicated activity is one of the first things I noticed when using Jamf Pro. The platform makes it relatively easy to protect endpoints with anti-virus protection, compliance monitoring, security visibility and behavior detection. Once set, Jamf will monitor things for administrators, taking automatic actions or signaling human IT workers when potential problems arise.

Admins can also use Jamf to assist with threat hunting, something I have never seen before in a workspace management platform. Because of this, Jamf will assist with keeping known threats out of an agency network and away from its iOS or Apple devices, and it can also help in searching for unknown problems with advanced IT staff. That is sure to make Jamf popular in security operations centers.

Jamf Makes Lifecycle Management a Breeze

Beyond that core functionality, the scalability of the Jamf platform is also impressive. Monitoring mobile assets, especially if there are a lot of them, is often an unappreciated job. But with Jamf, it really doesn’t matter if an administrator is charged with protecting 10, 100 or 1,000 or more devices. Jamf can keep them all ahead of the curve with automation sitting on top of an easy-to-use platform and interface.

It also conducts lifecycle management, so admins can map out how their devices are going to be used and how long it will be before they need to be swapped out for something new. This, combined with a zero-touch installation process, makes the Jamf Pro platform incredibly powerful, noninvasive and very easy to use.

SPECIFICATIONS 

OPERATING SYSTEM: MacOS
SOFTWARE TYPE: Remote monitoring and management
LICENSE PRICE LEVELS: 1,000-2,499 licenses
LICENSE TYPE: Subscription license
LICENSE VALIDATION PERIOD: Annual