Every Mac includes XProtect and Gatekeeper, Apple's built-in antivirus and security applications. With Jamf Protect, you gain visibility into the native macOS security applications as well as enterprise-grade detections on potential impactful behaviors.
To manage risk on Mac, you need to know what apps are running on macOS and when users are running them. This level of transparency provides insight into apps that macOS deems dangerous and those that may be inappropriate or unauthorized by the organization; even when the user overrides macOS — or maybe especially then. With Jamf Protect you have full visibility into all of the activity of the security tools built into macOS. To view all Apple security information in Jamf Protect, click .
The threat detection tests in this section of the guide are designed to expose the valuable protection provided by the native security tools Gatekeeper and XProtect.