The notion of responsive platform security on Apple devices becomes far more profound now that Jamf, a leading device management and security vendor in the space, has agreed to acquire Identity Automation, an education-focused dynamic identity and access management (IAM) platform, for around $215 million.
What’s interesting about this deal is that the combined technologies should allow Jamf to support dynamic identity and access scenarios in a variety of industries.
Some, such as education, healthcare retail, aviation, and field engineering, are frequently characterized by rapidly changing roles, teams, schedules, and location, and require dynamic adjustment of security policy to support workers in what they do. Student roles and access frequently change based on class, grade, school, and district, for example, while air crews might require secure access to company resources from rapidly changing geographies.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
