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HaloFortress is an AI-native unified endpoint management (UEM) and zero-trust security platform. It unifies device management, identity-aware access, endpoint privilege management, and data loss prevention into one policy graph that runs across macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS.
Three big ones. First, the legacy stack of UEM + EDR + ZTNA + MFA + DLP + EPM + patch tools is brittle and expensive — HaloFortress collapses it into one platform. Second, posture and access drift apart in most stacks (login-time only) — HaloFortress binds them in real time. Third, time-to-first-policy on incumbents is measured in weeks; HaloFortress targets 11 minutes.
HaloFortress UEM (lifecycle, posture, patch, asset management) and HaloFortress Trust (zero-trust access, conditional access, EPM, DLP). They share one policy graph, so a UEM signal immediately influences a Trust decision.
macOS 12+, Windows 10/11, Ubuntu 20.04+, RHEL 8+, Debian 11+, Arch Linux, iOS/iPadOS 15+, Android 10+, and ChromeOS. Linux is a first-class platform, not a roadmap item.
AI is used in three places: (1) drift detection — anomaly detection on posture telemetry to catch novel threats; (2) policy authoring — natural-language to YAML for quick iteration; (3) audit summarization — turning months of allow/deny events into incident-ready summaries. The platform works without AI, and AI features are opt-in.
HaloFortress ships UEM, ZTNA, EPM, and DLP as a single platform under one per-endpoint price; HaloFort licenses HaloUEM and HaloTrust separately. HaloFortress also has native Linux support, real-time posture-bound conditional access, and 1,800+ third-party patch coverage. See /vs/halofort for a full side-by-side.
Intune is bundled into Microsoft 365 E3/E5. HaloFortress is independent, priced per endpoint, and ships Mac and Linux at the same depth as Windows. Most teams switch for time-to-iterate (11 minutes vs 2-6 weeks) and to drop the E5 + Defender + Entra Premium dependency for conditional access.
Jamf and Kandji are Apple-first MDMs. HaloFortress covers macOS at the same depth and adds native Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android — plus built-in zero-trust. Most Jamf/Kandji customers stack Okta plus a ZTNA vendor on top; HaloFortress replaces the whole stack.
First policy live in 11 minutes from tenant provisioning. A 100-person pilot ring is typical within the first day. Full fleet rollout takes 3-8 weeks for most teams, longer for fleets over 10,000 endpoints.
No. Co-existence agents run alongside your current UEM/MDM (HaloFort, Intune, Jamf, Kandji, Workspace ONE). Both stacks operate side-by-side until you choose to retire the old one — typically at quarter-end after 4-8 weeks of stable operation.
Mostly. The policy translator handles 80-95% of common control sets (depending on the source UEM). The remaining edge cases get surfaced for review and ported manually. We assign a migration engineer for fleets over 500 endpoints.
Three plans, per endpoint per month, billed annually: Starter $9 (up to 250), Business $14 (up to 5,000), Enterprise $19 (unlimited, FedRAMP). UEM, ZTNA, EPM, and DLP are bundled at every tier — no per-product upsells.
Yes. 14 days, up to 50 endpoints, no card required.
Yes. Enterprise plans include custom SLAs and procurement terms. Contact sales@halofortress.com.
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, PCI-DSS Level 1, GDPR, FedRAMP Moderate, and StateRAMP. Continuous attestation rather than point-in-time audits.
AWS and Google Cloud across North America, EU, UK, and APAC. Customers select a tenant region; data does not leave the chosen region without explicit consent.
Yes, on Enterprise. CMK via AWS KMS, Google Cloud KMS, or HSM-backed keys.
Tenant data is exported on request, then deleted within 30 days of cancellation. Audit logs are retained for the duration required by your DPA, then purged.
Yes. Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Ping, JumpCloud, OneLogin, and any SAML 2.0 / OIDC / SCIM-compliant IdP. Device compliance signals flow back to your IdP.
Yes. Splunk, Datadog, Snowflake, Sentinel, Elastic, Sumo Logic — direct connectors plus a generic webhook output.
Yes. REST and GraphQL APIs cover everything in the console, with OpenAPI documentation, official SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go, and Ruby, and Terraform provider for posture-as-code.
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