SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building on the success of its first-generation Mobile App Protection (MAP) product for Android, Mocana, a leader in smart device security, today introduced its latest version of MAP, which brings comprehensive security to Apple iOS apps, too. With the addition of cross-platform iOS and Android support, MAP 2.0 simplifies, automates and secures mobile app management for enterprise IT and the employees, partners and customers they serve.
Mocana MAP 2.0 uses unique, patent-pending technology that enables enterprise IT to “wrap” new layers of security into Android or iPhone apps, without requiring app source code access, without the need to write any code, and without negatively impacting performance, battery life or app usability. With MAP, enterprise IT administrators can easily add new security features to apps “born without them.” Once wrapped by MAP, apps maintain their new security behaviors wherever they are deployed, whether they reside on company-, employee- or consumer-owned devices.
“Our device experience has taught us that if you start from the assumption that the phone or tablet is not secure, then you make different design decisions for application-level security,” said Adrian Turner, CEO at Mocana. “Rather than focusing on the device, we believe enterprises care most about securing and having fine-grain control over their applications and the information that runs across these devices. In many cases in the mobile enterprise, the devices aren’t even under full management by the enterprise. Mocana MAP is a truly innovative software manifestation of everything we have learned in the past nine years about securing mission-critical connected systems across every smart device sector of the economy.”
MAP 2.0 is different from enterprise mobile management solutions currently on the market, which are focused on whitelisting, blacklisting or determining who should have access to certain apps. MAP 2.0 is a Mobile Application Security (MAS) solution that is focused on securing the app itself and the data it works with.
Beyond support for Apple iOS, Mocana MAP 2.0 incorporates enterprise-proven capabilities that help prevent loss of sensitive corporate data by controlling who can access enterprise apps and when they can be used:
- For any enterprise mobile app – iOS or Android – data-at-rest automatically can be encrypted with FIPS 140-2 level 1 security, even if the app did not originally have any security built into it.
- Enterprise IT can put any app behind its own passphrase authentication prompt, allowing access only to authorized users.
- Secure cut, copy and paste ensures that sensitive data can be shared only within the secured app itself, and not to unsecure portions of the device.
- Individual apps can create separate app-level VPN tunnels back to their enterprise gateways, with custom levels of security for each app, providing superior and more flexible security than that provided by whole-device VPNs. MAP 2.0’s IPSec-based VPN client enables apps to connect securely to almost any VPN server on the market.
- The extensible Mocana MAP architecture allows for the rapid addition of new policies, like those based on location and motion of the mobile device, as well as date or time of day. Thus, enterprises can enable apps only during business hours, or shut them down whenever a device is in motion or outside a specific geographical area, such as the corporate campus.
“When enterprises want to go beyond delivering simple email services to smartphones, they quickly realize that more than a mobile device security management strategy is required,” said Eric Ahlm, research director at Gartner. “Savvy organizations are realizing that securing the app and information — rather than the device — allows for deployment of more apps to more devices, especially to those devices your organization doesn’t own.”
App Management from the Device Security Experts
Mocana MAP is the market’s only aftermarket app security solution from a pure-play security company. Mocana MAP goes beyond sandboxing, SDKs, containers and hypervisor technologies to make mobile apps truly self-defending, with distinct, fine-grained security policies for each enterprise app and their users – post development, and even with third-party apps. MAP protects apps on every managed and non-managed Android and iOS device on the network. MAP makes mobile apps self-defending while enabling IT to regain some of the control it lost in the BYOD (bring your own device) revolution. MAP works with existing mobile management solutions to extend their reach and make them more effective.
“Apperian believes that the BYOD revolution requires control of corporate assets and information on mobile devices in order to provide enterprise-level control without compromising personal data and policies. This release of MAP is a substantial addition to provide IT departments with the ability to secure mobile apps and content within the context of a comprehensive Mobile Application Management strategy,” said David Patrick, CEO of Apperian, a leader in Mobile Application Management (MAM) solutions.
Availability and Pricing
Mocana Mobile App Protection 2.0 is available now to customers invited to Mocana’s Early Adopter Program. Subscriptions and perpetual licenses are available in both per-device or per-app models. MAP 2.0 is available direct from Mocana or from Mocana partners, which include Apperian, Boxtone, Mobile Active Defense, CACI, Mobiquity and Mformation, as part of bundled MDM and app management solutions. For purchasing information, contact sales@mocana.com.
About Mocana
Launched in 2004 and recognized by the World Economic Forum as a 2012 Technology Pioneer, Mocana provides the only device-independent security platform that secures all aspects of mobile and smart connected devices, as well as the apps and services that run on them. Mocana's solutions dramatically increase confidence and compliance for the enterprise, OEMs, service providers and their customers. Millions of people use products sold by the more than 200 companies that rely on Mocana's solutions, including Cisco, Honeywell, Dell GE and General Dynamics, as well as four of the top five Android handset makers. For more information, visit www.mocana.com.