The Traps agent protects Mac endpoints by preventing known and unknown malware from running and halting attempts to leverage software exploits and vulnerabilities. The Traps agent enforces your organization’s security policy as defined in the Traps Endpoint Security Manager. When a security event occurs on an endpoint, Traps collects forensic information about that event which you can use to analyze the incident further.

The following topics describe how to install and use the Traps agent for Mac: