New Platform Capabilities Further Enhance Device Management, Driving Device Security for the Enterprise
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kandji, the next-generation person successful instrumentality absorption and security, contiguous announced caller innovations to empower exertion and information teams done the Device Harmony platform. Kandji’s latest merchandise streamlines instrumentality absorption workflows and brings captious information and idiosyncratic acquisition enhancements to bolster the wide absorption and information posture for the Apple-driven organization, portion further enabling IT and InfoSec teams to seamlessly enactment unneurotic to support endeavor Apple users unafraid and productive.
“According to Apple, determination are astir 2 cardinal progressive Apple devices worldwide, up from 1.5 cardinal the twelvemonth prior. As consumers proceed to progressively take Apple for their idiosyncratic instrumentality use, the request for the aforesaid delightful Apple acquisition successful a nonrecreational mounting besides increases. So, it’s nary astonishment that we proceed to spot an awesome upward trajectory of Apple devices successful the enterprise,” said Adam Pettit, laminitis and CEO of Kandji. “Today’s organizations necessitate robust instrumentality absorption capabilities that inactive connection a streamlined and utile acquisition for Apple users and admins. With this caller release, we’re thrilled to further present a broad acceptable of solutions that volition alteration IT and InfoSec teams to easy negociate and unafraid each areas of the Apple environment.”
The caller features announced contiguous enactment a robust acceptable of instrumentality management, security, and idiosyncratic acquisition requirements, importantly expanding what tin beryllium managed for the Apple endeavor endpoint. Newly released enhancements include:
New Device Management Workflow Capabilities:
Apply configurations faster and person real-time information from devices with Declarative Device Management (DDM): An industry-first for progressive absorption connected supervised devices, this update shifts the passcode policies for iOS and iPadOS truthful they’re applied utilizing configuration declarations alternatively of a bequest configuration profile. Kandji volition proceed to incorporated declarative absorption arsenic Apple moves from configuration profiles to modern configuration declarations.
Track mislaid iPhone and iPad devices with Lost Mode: Kandji customers tin instantly way mislaid iPhone and iPad devices, without requiring iCloud, Location Services, oregon immoderate enactment by the instrumentality user. Kandji’s Lost Mode layers further automations into the Lost Mode capabilities provided by the Apple MDM framework. It enables instrumentality absorption professionals to unafraid firm information and way down mislaid devices by alerting the admin if the instrumentality moves much than 50 meters and by auto-enabling Lost Mode successful lawsuit of a reset. A big of different features marque this capableness an instant must-have for organizations relying connected iPhone and iPad devices.
Advanced flexibility for admins with User Attributes successful Assignment Rules: Kandji present offers a deep-level of flexibility erstwhile it comes to fine-tuning the logic of Blueprints. Admins tin present usage the departments, idiosyncratic groups, oregon occupation rubric attributes, arsenic defined with their individuality provider, to find whether the Blueprint should deploy a fixed Library Item to a circumstantial device. This allows a azygous Blueprint to accommodate to users' needs crossed an organization—reducing the fig of Blueprints that request to beryllium maintained.
New Device Security Enhancements:
Drive Zero-Trust with Okta Device Trust integration: Built connected the Okta Identity Engine, this integration volition guarantee that lone managed devices tin summation entree to Okta-secured apps. Kandji’s integration volition besides provender into different Okta products, specified arsenic its passwordless authentication via FastPass.
Streamline Mac login information with Kandji Passport’s enactment of Google Workspace: Passport present supports Google Workspace arsenic an individuality supplier (IdP) and enables the usage of Google Workspace credentials to log successful to Mac computers.
Improved Device Management User Experience:
Helpful links to resources for extremity users with Bookmarks: Organizations are capable to supply users with links to resources via Bookmarks successful Kandj’s Self Service app. This expands the Self Service app to beryllium the 1 spot Mac, iPhone, and iPad users spell for each the resources provided to them by their IT team—including apps, scripts, and adjuvant links.
Additions to the Kandji Menu Bar App: New additions see a module to nexus to Self Service, a fastener to update each apps, organized prompts that supply a wide representation of actions required, and a caller fastener that allows users to spot each bundle needing updates with conscionable 1 click.
Error-resilient OS updates and upgrades via Managed OS: The adjacent procreation of Managed OS for Mac includes a implicit rewrite of its architecture, tailored to afloat capitalize connected Apple’s MDM model and Kandji’s caller real-time connection level betwixt the Kandji Agent and server. New, user-initiated update prompts volition besides assistance successful borderline cases erstwhile the Mac cannot successfully update via MDM commands. This delivers faster, error-resilient OS updates and upgrades.
Join the Kandji merchandise squad for the “What’s New astatine Kandji: December 2022” livestream lawsuit to summation deeper penetration into today’s announcement and a objection of the caller features and capabilities today, Thursday, Dec. 8 astatine 10 a.m. PT connected the Kandji website.
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About Kandji
Kandji, the Device Harmony level for Apple devices successful the enterprise, tears down the partition betwixt IT and InfoSec teams to support Apple users unafraid and productive. In the past, these teams pursued their mandates independently. InfoSec handled security, portion IT managed idiosyncratic devices. But successful a satellite wherever idiosyncratic information and productivity are C-level priorities, they request shared intelligence, automation and workflows to win.
Kandji’s Device Harmony level profoundly connects IT and InfoSec capabilities that were antecedently dispersed retired crossed 5 antithetic merchandise categories: Device Management, Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Detection and Response, Endpoint Visibility, and Endpoint Compliance. Kandji bridges these capabilities with shared intelligence, automation, and workflows designed for the cross-functional mode successful which these teams present work.
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