Appdome MobileEDR vs Ivanti Mobile Threat Defense

Appdome MobileEDR embeds endpoint detection and response and mobile threat defense directly into Android and iOS apps, without traditional device agents. Its Threat-EKG monitors and assesses threats in real time, including malware, spyware, network attacks, and policy violations. Payloads can carry session risk status, timestamps, a nonce, signed data, a ThreatID, and an AppID, while Appdome says secure communication can work without a traditional network connection. Protection operates only while the enterprise app is in use, leaving personal device activity unaffected. Building protection requires an iOS IPA or Android APK/AAB and signing credentials. Documented CI/CD integrations include Bitrise, GitHub, GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. Build-2Secure can build, sign, and certify protected Android and iOS apps in GitHub pipelines without code or SDKs. Threat-EKG requires its own license and an Appdome account. Mobile EDR is paid, with pricing on request and a 30-day trial. Appdome also identifies malware, phishing, and malicious-app detection as supported protections.

Ivanti Mobile Threat Defense protects managed corporate and employee-owned mobile devices from device, network, application and phishing threats. It analyzes links when users click them, blocks malicious URLs and alerts users when a site is blocked. Machine learning and real-time traffic analysis help identify phishing, malware and ransomware risks. Administrators can assess apps using risk scores and factors such as behavior, domains, certificates, shared code and network communications; apps can also be submitted by store URL or file for analysis.

The product integrates with Ivanti mobile device management to deploy and activate protection on managed Android, iOS and iPadOS devices without user action. Administrators can enforce policies against disabling or removing it, configure server- or device-initiated compliance actions, and set local remediation by user group. Management is through a cloud console, with no local servers or connectors to deploy. Ivanti lists the product as an add-on for Autonomous Endpoint Management. Pricing is on request.