Jamf brings powerful AI Governance solution
London: Jamf CEO, Beth Tschida is in London, UK today to join the Jamf Nation Live get-together there. During her keynote speech, the company’s leader announced AI Governance, a powerful new solution to help IT manage AI on their networks.
AI Governance: Right product, right time
This is a well-timed release on the part of the company:
- A very recent survey claims almost two thirds of officer professionals have used AI tools or services at work, even when they knew they weren’t permitted to do so.
- Analysis from TRG Datacenters says 67% of UK’s organizations report being unable to track what employees are sharing with AI services.
- A recent Jamf survey found t 72.9% of organizations have already deployed AI in some form, but more than 22% of respondents have already experienced an AI-related incident.
Clearly, this is a governance and management nightmare, and it’s a use pattern that is growing, not slowing.
“AI adoption across the enterprise is moving faster than existing technology policies can keep up,” said Beth Tschida, CEO at Jamf.
Managing to AI success
Curiosity about AI is high, which is why any student of human nature will tell you humans will continue to use these tools, which means the challenge for IT is less about prevention and more about finding ways to enable such use, while protecting company assets and data.
It’s also about protecting the company from AI-related bill shock as the cost per token increases even as usage grows, at least if you’re an Apple-using shop that also uses Jamf device management.
“Organizations need governance that matches the way AI tools actually operate on Mac,” said Tschida. “This means visibility into what’s running, policy controls enforced directly on the endpoint, and reporting that helps security teams demonstrate compliance. Our AI Governance capability delivers that natively from the same platform customers already trust to manage and secure Apple devices,” she said.
What AI Governance can do
AI Governance uses similar telemetric technology to Jamf Protect, to give enterprises visibility, control and governance for AI tools running across managed Mac fleets. IT can use it to set and restrict AI use.
In a release, Jamf explained AI Governance performs the following critical capabilities:
- Visibility: AI application visibility and shadow AI discovery surface AI tools, agents, and LLM runtime across the fleet (including CLI-based developer tools and background agents) using Jamf Protect telemetry which is native to Apple Silicon. No new agent is required.
- Control: AI access policy controls let IT define sanctioned tools, deploy access policy at scale, and scope different postures to different teams including three curated default postures (Maximum Security, Balanced, and Developer-friendly). Vendor-correct configurations can be applied automatically at scale.
- Governance: An executive AI posture report provides CIOs and CISOs with a summary of AI usage. The capability offers SIEM compatibility and is designed to assist companies in reporting against their existing compliance frameworks.
The tool includes reporting, management, and audit services, and will let IT identify which AI models are being used on their networks and also see the extent of that use. Identifying models running across your fleet isn’t always easy, as they don’t always show up in app inventories of DNS logs, so Jamf has created tools to surface AI and client usage.
The tool also permits service deployment and permissions privileges and will generate audit-ready reports as required. You’ll be able to find out more about AI Governance at this location, once it is announced later this week – the product is expected to ship at the end of June 2026.
“If you know how people are running AI across your fleet, you figure out how to optimize that use. We can be a huge enabler for everyone that’s using our product to get to where they want to go with AI,” said Tschida.
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