F-Secure released XFENCE, with its technology Little Flocker. The app will enhance enterprise and home security solutions on MacOS by adding advanced malware prevention techniques.
Security company F-Secure acquired Little Flocker the most advanced security technology available for Mac, from an app developer. 
Most Mac security solutions rely entirely on signatures for malware, but this can not protect Mac users from modern targeted attacks.
Little Flocker protects Macs by using advanced behavioral analysis and monitors applications trying to access confidential files and system resources. It also locates and blocks Mac ransomware.
F Secure will integrate the next-generation Little Flocker security engine into the new XFENCE technology. XFENCE will complement F-Secure's existing endpoint protection solutions by providing advanced Mac protection solutions for both businesses as for consumers.
The myth of Macs that do not require protection from ransomware, backdoors and other software vulnerabilities has begun to falter. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are increasingly focusing on Mac due to Apple's popularity among senior-level employees and other high-value goals.
By acquiring the core Little Flocker technology and implementing it into F Secure's endpoint protection portfolio as XFENCE, F-Secure will further enhance the existing cyber security capabilities of its products for the sophisticated detection of zero-day attacks, regardless of platform chosen by its customers.
"Macs have become an attractive entry point for attackers who seek to penetrate organisms. With Little Flocker technology, we will enhance protection based on Mac's behavioral analysis to stop our modern opponents, "said Mike Stahlberg, Chief Technology Officer at F Secure.
Inter Engineering's Josmaarten Swinkels, CEO of Inter Engineering, comments: "F-Secure focuses on being the best in detection and investing heavily in technology to succeed. This is one of many actions that also benefit customers and the F Secure partner community. "
HF Secure plans to enrich the Little Flocker technology with its security cloud and implement it in the Protection Service for Business, a security solution with centralized management of computers, mobile devices and server with integrated patch and Mobile Fleet Management. The technology will soon be available for consumers as part of the F-Secure SAFE solution – security for multiple and different devices.
For tech savvy users, the company will continue to offer the F-Secure XFENCE tool as a next-generation cyber security solution that will be available through a free beta release to:
https://campaigns.f-secure.com/xfence.
