Zimperium Extends Mobile Security Leadership by Delivering First Complete Mobile Application Security Solution

New Mobile Application Protection Suite (MAPS) Identifies Security, Privacy and Compliance Issues During Development and Protects Apps While In Use

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Zimperium, the global leader in mobile threat defense (MTD), today announced a first-of-its-kind complete Mobile Application Protection Suite (MAPS), a comprehensive solution that helps organizations protect their mobile apps throughout their entire life cycle.

“Until now, organizations trying to secure their mobile apps have been forced to piecemeal security solutions together,” said Nitin Bhatia, chief strategy officer at Zimperium. “This approach leaves holes in the development life cycle related to security and provides little to no visibility into threats on end user devices while the app is in use.”

Zimperium will be conducting a webinar on MAPS on March 25th at 10am Central.

Addressing a Need

Mobile applications have become a business requirement for almost every organization. According to a recent report, four out of 10 large enterprises are planning to deliver more than 50 apps for their internal and external customers.

To meet the skyrocketing demand, some enterprises are increasing their in-house app development while others are outsourcing. And while organizations have become proficient at developing mobile apps, many lack the ability to protect them from threats. When attackers discover and exploit apps in the wild, the lack of visibility and actionable information can lead to breaches, stolen data, brand impact, and lost revenue.

According to Gartner’s Market Guide for In-App Protection Report (July 3, 2019; Dionisio Zumerle and Manjunath Bhat), “security and risk management leaders must take due care in protecting their application clients to avoid turning a promising software design trend into a security failure.”

The MAPS Solution

MAPS is comprised of three solutions, each of which address a specific enterprise mobile app security need:

• zScan helps organizations discover and fix compliance, privacy, and security issues within mobile apps before they are released as part of the development process;
• zShield hardens the app through obfuscation and anti-tampering functionality to protect the app from potential attacks like reverse engineering and code tampering; and
• zDefend (formerly zIAP) is an SDK embedded in apps to help detect and defend against device, network, phishing and malicious app attacks while the app is in use.

“The development of a mobile app should be focused on creating exceptional user experiences and engagement, not financial and reputation concerns over data breaches and privacy and security issues,” Bhatia said. “MAPS provides peace of mind to CISOs, CIOs and security operational teams for the life of their mobile app.”

Zimperium will be conducting a webinar on zScan on April 1st at 10am Central, a webinar on zShield on April 8th at 10am Central and a webinar on zDefend on April 15th at 10am Central.

About Zimperium®

Zimperium, the global leader in mobile threat defense (MTD), offers the only real-time, on-device, machine learning-based protection against Android and iOS threats. Powered by z9, Zimperium provides protection against device, network, phishing and malicious app attacks.

Our solutions include zIPS which runs locally on any mobile device and detects cyberattacks without a connection to the cloud and our first-of-its-kind Mobile Application Protection Suite (MAPS), a comprehensive solution that helps organizations protect their mobile apps throughout their entire life cycle. MAPS is comprised of three solutions: zScan, which helps organizations discover and fix compliance, privacy, and security issues; zShield, which hardens the app through obfuscation and anti-tampering; and zDefend (formerly zIAP), an SDK embedded in apps to help detect and defend against device, network, phishing and malicious app attacks while the app is in use.

Zimperium is the first and only MTD provider to be granted an Authority to Operate (ATO) status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Zimperium is backed by Warburg Pincus, SoftBank, Samsung, Sierra Ventures and Telstra. Learn more at www.zimperium.com or our official blog at https://blog.zimperium.com.

Zimperium, the Zimperium name and logo, Powered by Zimperium, zIPS, MAPS, zScan, zShield, zDefend, z9 and zIAP are registered trademarks or trademarks of Zimperium, Inc. in the US and other countries.

Contacts

Andy Shane, Zimperium

andy.shane@zimperium.com
214/498-4915