Insights and Updates from the Zip Security Blog

Security

Learn how to enforce CIS benchmarks with automated device hardening, continuous control enforcement, and a stronger security baseline.

Company

Identity issues rarely start with bad intent. They start with change. A new hire needs access right away, a contractor needs a temporary exception, or a manager forgets to remove an app assignment.

Security

Deploy secure hardware in minutes. Learn how Zip's zero-touch enrollment automates onboarding and prevents security drift from day one.

How To Guide

Alert fatigue occurs when security teams receive so many alerts that the queue becomes less useful. Too many are low priority, repetitive, or unclear, diverting time from meaningful security work to constant triage.

How To Guide

Modern security gaps rarely come from a total lack of tooling. More often, they appear in the space between deployment and day-to-day reality, where an endpoint protection platform looks healthy in the console but fails to collect, report, or enforce as expected.

Security

Manual security work quietly consumes hours weekly through device checks, policy follow-up, and audit preparation. Automated enforcement helps teams maintain approved settings without constant manual oversight.

SOC2

A SOC 2 badge from Delve didn't protect LiteLLM. Here's what vCISOs need to know about continuous enforcement, and how Zip makes it scalable.

Security

An automated onboarding process is a repeatable system that deploys a new hire's device, applies baseline security controls, provisions the right access, and provides proof that everything works—without relying on manual checklists.

Security

Security drift can happen in a single day. A patch fails, encryption gets turned off, or an agent stops reporting. That does not mean your tools are broken. It means real environments keep changing, and small gaps can create security vulnerabilities if nothing pulls systems back to baseline.

How To Guide

Security requirements are now standard in enterprise procurement. Here's what customers are asking for, why it's getting stricter, and how to stay ahead of it.

Security

An IT security check should give you a fast answer to a simple question: are the basics still true? Devices stay protected, access stays controlled, and your tools keep working the way you expect.

How To Guide

You don't need a dedicated security team to pass enterprise vendor reviews. You need enforced controls, current visibility, and answers you can actually back up.

Security

Operation Winter SHIELD highlights the gap between security policy and enforcement. Learn how automation turns core controls into continuous protection.

SOC2

Enterprise buyers include compliance requirements because procurement has one job: reduce risk in a consistent, defensible way.

How To Guide

Most MSPs say they "handle security," but that doesn't automatically mean your environment is secure. The challenge is that security is hard to verify, especially when it spans dozens of tools, dashboards, and configurations.

How To Guide

Configuration drift comes with modern IT. Devices update, people change roles, exceptions pile up, and system configurations don't always stay aligned.

Security

Discover how connecting your tools makes endpoint security management visible, continuously enforced, and provable—without adding more tools or busywork.

How To Guide

A clear, automated five-step path to move from technical debt (and security risk) to a stable, enterprise-ready baseline.

How To Guide

How continuous compliance monitoring closes the gap by keeping controls enforced, evidence current, and compliance status clear all year.

Security

Learn security configuration management and why manual approaches stop working as companies grow.

How To Guide

For most growing companies, the first IT or security hire doesn't come from a big "aha" moment. Instead, it's a decision shaped by the gradual build-up of operational friction, compliance demands, and the need to manage risk as the business scales.

Identity Solution

For most small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), cybersecurity is more than just knowing what to do. The challenge comes when people, devices, and tools change.

macOS

Apple device management presents a critical challenge for enterprises, as these devices don't come with built-in centralization capabilities. Two leading Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms have emerged to address this need: Jamf, a veteran solution with extensive enterprise presence managing approximately 30 million devices worldwide, and Mosyle, a newer competitor offering streamlined workflows.

How To Guide

Endpoint Protection secures devices from external threats through measures like malware blocking, patching, and firewalls, while Data Control safeguards sensitive information by managing access, classification, and usage across systems.

Security

This tactical guide is designed for small and mid-sized organizations asking those exact questions about where to start with security.

SOC2

To help first-time organizations navigate the SOC 2 auditing process, we sat down with Ryan Johanson, CEO of Johanson Group.

Reevaluating traditional security practices

Learn how SaaS visibility and endpoint security management stop modern malware. Discover how to detect silent failures and configuration drift with Zip.

Security

2FA is now a non-negotiable security standard for cloud platforms, preventing breaches caused by stolen or reused credentials.

SOC2

A clear guide to SOC 2 compliance costs, trade-offs, and long-term benefits for growing companies.

MDM

Apple devices lack centralized management by default, creating a gap for IT teams needing to enforce security policies at scale. Two leading MDM platforms serve Mac environments: Jamf, the established market leader emphasizing customization, and Kandji, the modern challenger known for simplicity.

How To Guide

How Jamf Compliance Editor and Zip Security help maintain Apple device compliance beyond deployment.

How To Guide

A clear guide to understanding HIPAA vs PCI DSS, their differences, and how to stay compliant with both.

Security

Learn how to build a practical small business cyber security checklist that reduces risk, prevents security drift, and supports compliance.

MDM

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is the foundational control behind modern security programs, providing visibility, enforcement, and trust at scale.

Reevaluating traditional security practices

Why endpoint compliance is critical for scaling companies and how to build a strategy that works.

Security

EDR vs MDR: key differences, use cases, and how to choose the right fit for your security team.

Company

Zip Security and Galvanick are now partnering to provide unified cybersecurity across both Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) environments.

How To Guide

Explore Intune deployment with proven conditional access and compliance best practices and prevent policy drift.

Security

An employee at a client firm was recently targeted by a malvertising campaign, unknowingly downloading malware designed for data exfiltration and credential theft. CrowdStrike swiftly neutralized the threat and a Managed Detection & Response team isolated the device, preventing any client impact.

How To Guide

Learn about dual-solution approach using Microsoft Intune and Jamf for mixed-platform environments.

Security

CrowdStrike made headlines early Friday morning as a routine content upgrade pushed bad code to an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide.

Security

Through its integration with Chrome Enterprise Core, Zip Security enables organizations to centrally manage and secure browser configurations, extensions, and updates across all endpoints.

How To Guide

Learn how to set up accounts and security to protect against disruption to operations.

Security

Learn how developing cybersecurity awareness programs helps reduce human risk, improve consciousness, and deliver effective cyber training for employees.

Security

SaaS security is the practice of protecting data, access, and workflows across cloud-based software applications that employees rely on every day.

Security

MSPs handle day-to-day IT operations, while MSSPs focus specifically on cybersecurity, monitoring, and incident response.

Company

Zip Security and Ambience Healthcare have partnered to release a co-authored white paper addressing third-party vendor cybersecurity risks in healthcare organizations.

Company

We're excited to unveil our revamped branding, break down the design process, and explore the values and story behind Zip.

Security

Passwords shouldn't serve as the primary way users prove who they are. In modern environments, they're too easy to steal, too hard to manage, and too costly to maintain at scale.

Security

In the ever evolving landscape of security and technology, this article explores the question: what is the role of the VPN in a modern security program?

Security

Learn the risks and benefits of local admin rights. Discover how to balance user productivity with least privilege security using modern endpoint guardrails.

Security

Discussion of how security leaders can effectively run programs as first hires in organizations, covering prioritization, communication, and strategic approaches to building security awareness.

Security

Master endpoint security management with Zip Security and prevent configuration drift, enforce device trust, and harden your security baseline.

Windows

Most security frameworks assume you have an enterprise-sized team and a perfectly uniform Microsoft environment. But for many IT admins, reality looks different.

MDM

Discover how unified endpoint management enforces device security, prevents silent failures, and strengthens device trust across your organization.

Identity Solution

This deep dive demystifies the complexities of Identity Solutions, offering insights into their mechanisms, selection criteria, and the impact they have on safeguarding against the theft of credentials.

How To Guide

In this post, we'll cover the fundamental building blocks of an effective cybersecurity strategy and provide practical information on how best to assess different tools.

Security

Securing your hard tech company can be a daunting task. To help you stay secure, we've compiled a list of the highest return on investment (ROI) actions you can take to protect your company data.

Company

Most organizations do not have the ability to invest in cybersecurity like a Fortune 500, but the burden is increasingly on them to do so.

Product Update

Save countless hours by automatically having your software deployed, configured, and reported against according to your desired compliance framework, with the single click of a button!

Security

Learn how SMBs can build a practical BYOD security policy to manage personal phone risk, prevent configuration drift & enable remote wipe without full MDM.

Security

Learn what an MSSP is, how it differs from an MSP and when a managed security service provider makes sense for your business.

SOC2

SOC 2 is a framework for evaluating controls related to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and customer data privacy. Zip was purpose-built to solve the challenges of deploying and managing required security tools.

Security

The US is raising cybersecurity standards for government contractors, especially those working with the Department of Defense. Many software companies unfamiliar with government contracting must now contend with these standards and associated acronyms.

Security

MFA that is more convenient than TOTP and more secure than SMS: WebAuthn using biometrics.

Security

Laptop theft is a growing threat. MDM with remote wiping can help protect sensitive data.

Security

Small businesses must prioritize cybersecurity. Steps include educating employees, enforcing MFA, using strong passwords, securing Wi-Fi, and obtaining cyber insurance.

macOS

macOS Activation Lock -- friend or foe for small businesses?

macOS

Run macOS fleet vulnerability management with minimal disruption. Reduce Mean Time to Patch with proper CVE response, patch SLAs, and safe update workflows.

Security

Zip Security is now SOC2 Type I compliant!

macOS

Wiping and locking corporate devices is a regular part of managing an enterprise fleet. As employees come and go or devices get lost or stolen, employers must be ready to wipe and lock devices in different contexts.

MDM

If your company runs on Macs, at some point you'll need a way to manage them, systematically and at scale. That's where Jamf comes in.