FireEye, announced targeted attack protection for products built on the Apple platform.
FireEye will support Apple’s Mac OS X operating system for network protection, iOS for mobile protection to detect known and unknown attacks, and enable analytics with forensic analysis for Apple products.
With Mac support incorporated into the FireEye Network Security Threat Prevention Platform (NX series), FireEye Forensic Analytics (AX series), FireEye Mobile Threat Prevention (MTP) and the FireEye Investigation Analysis System (IAS), the company is the first security vendor to offer an integrated solution to protect Microsoft, Apple and Google Android platforms with technology purpose-built to identify and mitigate advanced persistent threat (APT), zero-day, and targeted attacks.
FireEye Advanced Threat Protection NX and AX with OS X support are generally available now. The FireEye Mobile Threat Prevention App for iOS will be generally available by the end of 2014.
“As enterprises evolve and the Apple footprint grows within them, advanced threat actors are turning their attacks to Apple products to carry out their work,” said Manish Gupta, Senior Vice President of Products at FireEye. “By adding support for Apple, we are providing the only unified security platform for the top operating systems to protect enterprises from multi-vector attacks.”
According to a report by Forrester Research, almost 50 % of enterprises support Apple products, 21 % of information workers use one or more Apple products for work, and executives and senior-level employees – often the prime targets of advanced attackers – represent 41 % of enterprise Apple users. Such increased use of Apple products has caught the attention of attackers, with FireEye Labs seeing malware callbacks from Macs increase 90% month over month from June 2013 to June 2014. In September, FireEye Labs reported on malware specifically targeting Mac OS X.
“By supporting Apple, FireEye can now protect nearly all personal computers in the enterprise environment from advanced attacks,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.