Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense (MTD)

Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) – formerly known as zIPS – is a privacy-first application that provides mobile security for enterprises. It is designed to protect corporate-owned and/or BYO (bring-your-own) devices from advanced persistent threats across four categories: device, network, phishing, and app attacks.

Zimperium MTD detects known and unknown threats by analyzing the behavior of a mobile device and can identify mobile system deviations, applications that behave as malware, anomalous network traffic, and advanced phishing attacks. Further, the machine learning is delivered on-device, securing it even if the endpoint is not connected to the network.

Boasting a privacy-by-design approach, Zimperium MTD aims to provide users with a transparent experience by delivering customizable user settings and insight into what data is collected and used for threat intelligence. Because Zimperium MTD’s detection is done on-device, private information is never sent to the cloud.

Zimperium MTD can be used as a stand-alone tool or integrated with a MDM/EMM for managed devices. When integrated with a MDM/EMM, Zimperium MTD sends alerts about detected threats to the MDM/EMM, and the MDM/EMM remediates the risk based on predefined rules. Zimperium MTD works with MDM/EMM solutions and can simultaneously integrate with multiple MDMs/EMMs, which the vendor statess is particularly helpful when transitioning solutions. Zimperium MTD can also be used for unmanaged devices with mobile application management (MAM). With MAM-enabled apps, when a user launches a work application, such as Microsoft O365, on a mobile device, the application only permits access when mobile threat defense is running on the device.