F-Secure Acquires Jonathan Zdziarski's Mac Security App 'Little Flocker'
 

Cyber security company F-Secure has acquired Little Flocker, the behavioral analysis-based monitoring app for Macs, developed by iPhone forensics expert and security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski, who joined Apple last month.

The Helsinki-based firm an**unced the news in a press release posted to its site, where it revealed that Little Flocker would be built into a new security product it's releasing, called XFENCE.

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Little Flocker protects Macs by using advanced behavioral based analysis, and monitors apps that attempt to access confidential files and system resources. It also detects and blocks Mac ransomware. F-Secure will build Little Flocker's next-generation security engine into its new XFENCE tech**logy. XFENCE will complement F-Secure's existing endpoint solutions to provide advanced behavioral Mac protection for both corporate and consumer customers.

F-Secure said that the "myth" of Macs **t requiring protection against ransomware, backdoors, and other software was fading away, due to "Apple's popularity among senior-level employees and other high-value targets". By acquiring Little Flocker, it said it hoped to further enhance its products' existing cyber security capabilities for the sophisticated detection of zero-day attacks.

For businesses, the core tech**logy is to be combined with F-Secure?s security cloud and packaged into its*Protection Service for Business, a security solution with centrally managed computer, mobile and server security with integrated ***** management and mobile device management. Consumer customers can make use of the Flocker tech**logy with F-Secure Safe, the company's multi-device security product.

Little Flocker developer Zdziarski an**unced in March that he was joining Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture team. K**wn as "NerveGas" within the jailbreaking community, Zdziarski had provided input on a number of important iOS-related security matters over the years, including Apple's high-profile battle with the FBI over unlocking an iPhone used by a shooter in the 2015 San Bernardi** attack.

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