Organizations usually look for an all-round mobile security tool that tackles malicious threats. Sometimes this need is driven by compliance, especially in regulated industries such as financial services. In those cases, the ability to scan for malicious apps and perform device vulnerability management are the two main features that end users look for.

A new use case sees MTD used as part of a UES or an XDR system. We are increasingly observing endpoint security vendors that offer endpoint detection and response (EDR) extend support to iOS and Android, either on their own or in partnership with vendors of MTD solutions. Adding visibility for mobile devices, UES and XDR solutions can improve detection and identify lateral movement (see Figure 3). As mobile devices do not provide kernel-level access, mobile EDR visibility is limited, compared with what is available for Windows 10 devices, but we expect mobile devices to gradually accommodate the need for visibility, in a similar fashion to what we have observed for Apple macOS.²² The UES framework (see Innovation Insight for Unified Endpoint Security) takes XDR and the following use case of ZTNA and provides cross-platform support for both.