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    Mac Admins Podcast

    A rotating panel of Mac admins and consultants are joined by members of the Mac admin community to discuss the latest news, issues, and challenges of managing Apple devices. New episodes weekly. Join the community at macadmins.org.

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    Episode 388: Behind the Masque of Network Relays with Matt Vlasach Nov 16, 2024

    Who loves VPNs? Folks in the network security team, please put your hands down - we weren’t asking you… Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way that we could offer privacy and protection out there in that wretched hive of scum and villainy we call the internet? Wouldn’t it be even better if it was baked into the operating system so each vendor wasn’t just making things up as they go? Apple announced iCloud private relay in 2021, and in 2023 we got what I guess you could call the “Enterprise version” - Network Relays. Today we have Matt Vlasach here to talk about why Network Relays are awesome and how we can use them to make Apple devices more secure and useable

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Matt Vlasach - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • MASQUE Protocol IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schinazi-masque-02.html
    • WWDC 2023 - Protect App Traffic with Network Relays https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10002
    • https://reg.jnuc.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2024/home24/page/jnuc24sessioncatalog
    • https://blog.cloudflare.com/masque-building-a-new-protocol-into-cloudflare-warp/

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

    Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 387: Neurodiversity in the Workplace with Rowan Quigley Nov 07, 2024

    Do you find that life is like trying to understand code without comments? Many of us are discovering later in life that there is a word that explains why the unwritten rules of life just don’t seem to make sense. Rowan Quigley recently presented at JNUC in Nashville around how workplaces can embrace Neurodiversity, catering for neurodivergent folks as well as neurotypicals.

    Hosts:
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Rowan Quigley - @rquigley

    Links:

    • Fern Brady https://www.tiktok.com/@cultofpinky/video/7230743131581353242
    • Piratesoftware - https://www.tiktok.com/@brainystreamers/video/7422629711127334177
    • Penn State - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_p0kKe6IE
    • Embracing Neurodiversity in IT: Building Inclusive Workplaces for All

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 386: The Art of Conferencing Oct 29, 2024

    With JNUC and Macsysadmin last week, conference season is behind us for 2025. Tom and Marcus look back on the conference year that was and discuss how to get the most out of these awesome events

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Links:

    • Jim Rispin - Care & Feeding of your IT Professional
    • https://jc0b.computer/posts/attending-your-first-conference/

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 385: Fall 2024 Releases with Apple Oct 16, 2024

    Jeremy Butcher returns to the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about this Fall’s releases of new operating systems, a bit on Apple Intelligence, and how Mac Admins should be preparing for these latest releases.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

    Guests:

    • Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 384: Live from MacSysAdmin Gothenburg Oct 10, 2024

    Join Tom & Guests live from MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg Sweden 2024

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 383: Beth Johnson on Compliance Oct 01, 2024

    Beth Johnson’s talk at MacAdmins this year was all about bringing Compliance routines to her organization, and we wanted to spend some time getting her to share more about the process, the tools, and most importantly, the philosophy behind her efforts. And we’ll get into her incredibly beautiful slides, also.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Beth Johnson

    Links:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do8bxvpl7bA

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • Kolide
    • Alectrona
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 382: An API for Harmonized Tariff Codes, with Diamond Assets Sep 25, 2024

    Device Lifecycle is a massive topic for Mac Admins – what’s the right length? how do you purchase? what devices keep their value? – and we’re excited to have Kris Roesken from Diamond Assets here to tell us how their customers are approaching this interesting subject.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Kris Roesken - LinkedIn
    • Jeremy Egger - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • www.diamondassets.com
    • https://clarity.diamondassets.com/
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 381: Enforcing minimum OS with Bushrat Chowdhury Sep 20, 2024

    Software Updates is a subject that is dear to the heart of all Mac Admins. Traditionally this was a task that we could only perform after devices were enrolled. Beginning with macOS 14, Automated Device Enrollment began to support the requirement of a Minimum OS Version, which allows us to mandate that the device is updated before we allow it to enroll into our device management system. This week, we’ll talk with Bushrat Chowdhury of Jamf about the adaptation of this feature into the product.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Bushrat Chowdhury - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Automated Device Enrolment and MDM – Apple Support (AU)
    • What’s new in managing Apple devices - WWDC23 - Videos
    • New Features and Enhancements - Jamf Pro Release Notes 11.9.0

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 380: Jamf Setup Manager Sep 10, 2024

    It seems like it’s onboarding assistants all the way down at the moment. Everyone has embraced the idea of ensuring our users are kept informed about what is going on when their device is being configured, but most of them share one thing in common - they run once the user has arrived at the desktop. Today we are going. to discuss Jamf Setup Manager, which runs before the setup assistant during enrollment.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Mischa van der Bent - LinkedIn
    • Anthony Darlow - LinkedIn
    • Armin Briegel - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • GitHub - Jamf-Concepts/Setup-Manager
    • Human Interface Guidelines | Apple Developer Documentation
    • Jamf Concepts

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 379: Just Us on 2024 Fall Releases Sep 06, 2024

    With major Apple platform releases and a live event around the corner, Tom, Marcus, and Emily round up for a look back at Sonoma and iOS 17, an anxiety check on Sequoia and iOS 18, and ponder some of the questions admins are eager to have answered this Septober.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 378: Henry, Allister, & Graham join us on the Mac Admins SOFA Aug 27, 2024

    Death, taxes and software updates… We deal with a constant stream of updates: Minor, major, N, N-1, N-2. Why do we even have updates? Because software inherently sucks and bad people find ways to exploit the vulnerabilities that they find, or is it that good people find them and disclose them before the bad people get a chance to use them... If simply applying these software updates wasn’t hard enough, we also need to understand what devices are eligible for which updates, and may have auditing responsibilities to make decisions as to why and how quickly we need to apply them. SOFA is an open source tool that MacAdmins can use to help with automation, documentation and many other aspects associated with keeping our bloody software up to date

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Henry Stamerjohann, Co-founder, Zentral - LinkedIn
    • Graham Pugh, Senior Systems Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn
    • Allister Banks, Citizen of Earth - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • https://github.com/macadmins/sofa
    • https://sofa.macadmins.io
    • https://github.com/bartreardon/swiftDialog-scripts/tree/main/Update%20Notifications
    • https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/
    • https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
    • https://docs.vulncheck.com/community/nist-nvd/introduction
    • https://grahamrpugh.com/2023/12/06/xprotect-version-check.html
    • https://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2024/05/03/investigating-unpatched-cves-with-osquery-and-sofa/
    • https://github.com/macadmins/nudge
    • https://github.com/macadmins/osquery-extension

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 377: Rebecca Latimer on Getting Folks to use Stuff Aug 20, 2024

    Rebecca Latimer join us to tell us everything she’s been up to since Episode 197! We’ll be talking about managing users' expectations, as well as how they participate in your company's IT ecosystem. Also how managing coworkers isn't quite like managing goats.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Rebecca Latimer - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • MDOYVR24 - Rebecca Latimer - Managed Software Center
    • https://gingerscripting.com/
    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonpu/2024/08/10/the-australian-breakdancer-in-the-olympics-explained/
    • https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/12/raygun-rachael-gunn-paris-olympics-breaking-viral-kangaroo-hop-video
    • https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/08/apples-permissions-features-are-out-of-balance/
    • Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy: New Tech Guy - Saturday Night Live
    • Bringing a Mac Admin Mindset to Managing Windows Endpoints – Rebecca Latimer; Adam Anklewicz
    • https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2024/aug/09/paris-olympics-2024-hoops-and-loops-on-day-14-in-pictures
    • Mary Carillo's Badminton Rant - Athens 2004

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 376: Family Device Control with Collin Elliott Aug 14, 2024

    Family Device Control is a hot topic in the world, and we’ve never touched on it. Joining us this week is Collin Elliott to talk about how to manage your kids' devices, and handling co-parenting, as well as all sorts of ways to keep your devices in line.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Collin Elliott - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • ‘Came to Paris on a mission’: Saya Sakakibara claims gold in BMX racing
    • Screen Time: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108806
    • What is Family Sharing? https://support.apple.com/en-us/105062

    • Android Family Link: https://safety.google/families/parental-supervision/
    • Circle: https://meetcircle.com/
    • UniFi Traffic Rules For Parental Controls (Example Use Cases)

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 375: Managing Macs at MSPs with Ross Matsuda Aug 06, 2024

    Ross Matsuda joins the Podcast from Ntiva, where he manages a ton of Macs in a ton of different systems and ways. This episode is going to cover the challenge of managing Macs at scale, but not from the same platform

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Ross Matsuda - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Sudoade - Ross’ Apple Administration blog
    • Add personality to your app through UX writing

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 374: MacStadium and Orka, with Chris Chapman Jul 30, 2024

    Chris Chapman joins us from MacStadium, returning after 200 episodes, to tell us all about Orka Desktop, help us understand VMs that can be defined in code, and how we can all have more performant and better testing environments!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

    Guests:

    • Chris Chapman, CTO, MacStadium - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Orka Desktop | Deploy macOS virtual machines (VMs) on your local machine for testing & QA
    • Open Container Initiative

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • Kolide
    • Alectrona
    • Watchman Monitoring

    If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 373: PSU Mac Admins Jul 23, 2024

    Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Michael Epping - LinkedIn
    • Pam Lefkowitz - LinkedIn
    • Joshua Miller - LinkedIn

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

    Episode 372: Mike Boylan on Kandji Assignment Maps Jul 16, 2024

    Mike Boylan from Kandji joins the pod to talk about Kandji’s new approach to configurations management as part of their new Assignment Maps feature.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Mike Boylan - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Assignment Maps | Kandji Launch Event | June 2024
    • Assignment Maps vs Classic Blueprints
    • Assignment Maps Overview
    • Best Practices for Building Assignment Maps

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    Episode 371: Just Us (& Joel Rennich) Jul 08, 2024

    It’s just us this week, as we prepare for Penn State Mac Admins, as well as start the Beta Season. Here’s everything we’re thinking about as we get ready for the most exciting 3 months of Mac Admin life each year!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Joel Rennich - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Apple’s “Home on iPod” is Back | WIRED
    • Home on the iPod | Macworld

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    Episode 370: Jedda Wignall on Managed Device Attestation Jul 02, 2024

    Trust is a subject we regularly discuss with our guests. How do we trust our users, how do we trust the software they want to run, how do we trust the devices they are on. In the modern world where you can’t believe everything a computer or mobile device is telling you about itself, how do we make sure that the devices we are managing and granting access to the privileged information we need to secure are in fact what they say they are? Jedda Wignall put together a very comprehensive deep dive into Managed Device attestation last year and we’ve been looking forward to having him on the podcast to talk through it. Welcome to the MacAdmins Podcast Jedda!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Jedda Wignall - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices - a technical exploration
    • Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices – Apple Platform Deployment Guide
    • Smallstep - ACME Device Attestation Explained
    • Google Linux Attestation (GitHub) google/go-attestation
    • Duo Security - MDM Me Maybe: Device Enrollment Program Security

    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • 1Password
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    Episode 369: Zach Wasserman, Fleet, & Osquery Jun 25, 2024

    Zach Wasserman from Fleet DM joins the podcast this week to talk about software updates, osquery, DDM, and more! This wide-ranging conversation will cover all manner of new things… (To be finished once we get the full knowledge of WWDC…)

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Zach Wasserman - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • https://fleetdm.com/device-management

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    Episode 368: The Latest on MITRE ATT&CK with Cat Self Jun 18, 2024

    In this episode, we’ll talk about security, ATT&CK, and the changing landscape of Mac security with one of our favoritest guests, Cat Self.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Cat Self - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • MITRE ATT&CK®
    • Getting Started with ATT&CK (video)
    • ATT&CK Framework v15 Update Log
    • What is STIX/TAXII? | Cloudflare
    • Blog on pulling MITRE ATT&CK data sources with JuypterLab
    • Malware Unicorn: Dylib Injection Attacks
    • Atomic Red Team Tests
    • I created Lutherans
    • Atomic Test Harness
    • zScaler Advisories
    • https://x.com/Technop54777070/status/1788603343843074187
    • Claimed by hackers, Zscaler says there’s no impact or compromise | Cybernews
    • The ESF Playground – The Mitten Mac
    • A Deep Dive into the OceanLotus Adversary Emulation for macOS & Linux
    • https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/adversary_emulation_library/blob/master/ocean_lotus/Emulation_Plan/OceanLotus_Scenario.md

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    Flashcast 14: WWDC 2024 Live Jun 15, 2024

    So it feels like we should all be wearing white jumpsuits with awesome rainbow stripes, preparing to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane… It’s been a whirlwind week since the Keynote and now we have finally gotten to watch “What’s new in Device Management” (note the different name this year!) - we thought it would be fun to get together and livestream our thoughts. So, before we get into the details, what would you give the Keynote out of 10?

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan
    • James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social

    Links:

    • Using iCloud with macOS virtual machines | Apple Developer Documentation
    • What’s New in Privacy
    • What’s new in Device Management
    • Private Cloud Compute

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    • Kandji
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    Episode 367: Vision Pro Redux Jun 11, 2024

    Six Months into the Vision Pro, where are we? What’s working? What’s not? How are people thinking about this new technological innovation?

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
    • Bryson Tyrrell - LinkedIn
    • Gerard Massey - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Jamf Trust on Vision Pro
    • How to Manage and Secure Apple Vision Pro
    • ForeFlight - Voyager

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    Episode 366: WWDC 2024 Predictions, Part 2 Jun 04, 2024

    This week Tom, Marcus, and Emily finish off their predictions for next week's Apple World Wide Developer Conference. This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge – @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom – @marcusransom
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle – @emilyooo

    Links:

    • X World - “I do declare” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmnUjUg_6HE

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    Episode 365: Live at MacADUK 2024 May 27, 2024

    Tom hosts a live episode directly from the MacAD conference stage in Brighton as part of this year’s event! Catriona McDonald, Elliot Jordan, and Liam Donnelly join to talk about the conference sessions and everything that’s happened at the event! This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social

    Guests:

    • Catriona McDonald - LinkedIn
    • Elliot Jordan - LinkedIn
    • Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • MacAD 2024
    • How not to do bad things with Autopkg
    • ELA ELA ELA, a a a at MacAD 2023
    • Empowering Users with Self-Service at JNUC 2022
    • Molly Watt
    • Holly Foxcroft
    • W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
    • Managed Apple IDs and Federation

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    Episode 364: WWDC 2024 Predictions, Part 1 May 21, 2024

    This week Tom, Marcus, James, and Emily round up for what they assume is part one of their Apple World Wide Developer Conference predictions for 2024. This conversation was made possible by our sponsors Kandji and Kolide.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan
    • James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social

    Links:

    • https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157120/dell-windows-on-arm-leak-qualcomm-chips-battery-life

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    Episode 363: Evaluating New Tech, Part II May 14, 2024

    New tech comes and goes faster than ever. In today’s episode we’ll look at evaluating when it’s time to come to users with plans and/or products to help them either embrace or hold off on it, with Andrew Robinson.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Set up iCloud Keychain – Apple Support (AU)
    • Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
    • User Presence vs User Verification
    • Log into Bitwarden with a passkey
    • NIH Framework for Technology Selection

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    Episode 362: ACES Conference with Justin Esgar May 06, 2024

    Justin Esgar returns to the pod to tell us all about the upcoming ACES Conference in Salt Lake City!

    Hosts:
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    Guests:

    • Justin Esgar - LinkedIn

    Links:
    • ACES Conference Tickets (with discount)
    • ACES Conference

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    Episode 361: Just Us Apr 29, 2024

    Remember the ‘90s when Micrososft was the big bad wolf with their anti-competitive methods of pushing Internet Explorer at the expense of Netscape and other non-microsoft browsers? Now the eye of Sauron has turned on Apple and today we are going to discuss the current landscape of phones, app stores, and everything else that it seems all the tech pundits (does this make us pundits?) have an opinion on.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Links:

    • https://www.justice.gov/atr/case/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-apple-inc

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    Episode 360: Tim Perfitt on XCreds 4.0 Apr 15, 2024

    Tim Perfitt is back to talk about animal husbandry and the best new features that are in XCreds 4.0!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Tim Perfitt - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/xcreds/
    • https://twocanoes.com/knowledge-base/whats-new-in-xcreds-4-0/
    • https://store.twocanoes.com/collections/smart-card-readers
    • https://twocanoes.com/products/ios/wireless-mobile-reader/
    • https://twocanoes.com/products/mac/winclone/

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    Episode 359: Mac@Cisco - A Mac Admins Perspective Apr 08, 2024

    Most of us will have seen or heard about Fletcher Previn’s presentation at JNUC 2023 around the employee choice program at Cisco, and how the numbers stack up for offering the mac. This presentation, and Fletcher’s previous presentations for IBM were described from the perspective of the executives and decision makers, and you our dear listeners will be all too aware that implementing a successful program such as this requires a lot of effort, enthusiasm and collaboration at an engineering level to deliver the outcomes that the stakeholders want for the users. We thought it would be great to hear about what this program at looked like from the inside, so we are fortunate to have Jacob Davidson and Nicole Nolen from the mac@Cisco team to speak to us.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Jacob Davidson - LinkedIn
    • Nicole Nolen - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Fletcher’s JNUC presentation https://www.jamf.com/blog/mac-in-the-enterprise-employee-choice/
    • https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlocking-power-hybrid-work-5-guiding-principles-from-kelly-jones-8e88e/
    • https://github.com/macadmins/nudge

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    Episode 358: Kim Trojanowski on SupportApp Apr 01, 2024

    In this episode we meet Kim Trojanowski and hear a little about her experience with SupportApp and finding and working with new tools.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Kim Trojanowski - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • SupportApp - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp
    • 2021 SupportApp JNUC Presentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LijCmR6gQAM
    • README file - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp/blob/master/README.md
    • SupportApp Channel on Slack - https://macadmins.slack.com/archives/C02JD4WCXLH

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    Episode 357: Jordan Burnette on Transitioning From A Solo Admin To Team Mar 27, 2024

    Being a solo admin is great! So is going to a larger team, where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. We interview Jordan Burnette about such a transition in today’s episode.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Jordan Burnette - LinkedIn

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    Episode 356: Workbrew Mar 18, 2024

    The team from Workbrew joins us this week to discuss the challenges MacAdmins face with Homebrew at their companies. We discuss ways to cut down on IT busywork while also getting ahead with your engineering and security teams with an uncompromising approach to engineering productivity and security posture. Along the way we’ll touch upon maintaining the Homebrew Open Source Project and their approach to building a business around Open Source.

    Hosts:
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Vanessa Gennarelli, COO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn
    • Mike McQuaid, CTO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn
    • John Britton, CEO & Cofounder, Workbrew - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Workbrew
    • https://brew.sh/
    • https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/30d/
    • Vanessa’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Change-Work-Vanessa-Gennarelli/dp/195261662X
    • Git in Practice: Includes 66 Techniques

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    Episode 355: Arek Dreyer - Back By Popular Demand Mar 04, 2024

    When polled, one of the most requested guests was one we’ve had on before, Arek Dreyer. So rather than tell Arek, what we wanted to talk about, we thought we’d hit him up for what he wanted to talk about!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • https://www.instagram.com/p/zRML8gyxFN/
    • TILLREDA portable induction cooktop, 1 zone white - IKEA
    • Toronto Mac Admins Presentation

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    Episode 354: Cody Thomas Feb 27, 2024

    Keychain is one of the best password managers on the market - especially for the money. In this episode, we chat with Cody Thomas about his research into Keychain security, where he was able to find some successes in red teaming, and where his attempts were thwarted!

    Hosts:
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Cody Thomas - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2022
    • Cody Thomas at Objective By The Sea 2021

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    Episode 353: MacAD for 2024 Feb 19, 2024

    MacAD returns to Brighton in May of 2024! We’re excited to welcome members of the organizing committee, Maxine & Liam join the podcast to talk about this year’s conference, what attendees can expect, and why you should be booking your trip.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Maxine Davenport - LinkedIn
    • Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • https://www.macad.uk
    • macad@macad.uk

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    Episode 352: Blake Brandon from 1Password Feb 14, 2024

    Admins face challenges with their own vaults of secrets. How do we secure/share secrets like passwords, but also those that aren’t, like SSH keys, certs, or passkeys? And what about mass deployments and IdP integrations?

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Blake Brandon - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • 1Password: https://1password.com/
    • Ryan Reynolds & 1Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bGNgU-2aBs
    • Ryan Reynolds & 1Password: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfG6ksdavtY
    • SCIM: https://support.1password.com/scim/
    • https://support.1password.com/mobile-device-management/

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    Episode 351: Yoann Gini on Bravas Feb 05, 2024

    Bravas is a new offering based out of the EU, focused on the small business market. Identity and Device Management together, they’re trying something new for the SMB market.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Yoann Gini - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Bravas - https://www.bravas.io/en/
    • JWT - https://jwt.io/
    • WebAuthN - https://webauthn.io/
    • Shared Signals Framework - https://openid.net/wg/sharedsignals/
    • XKCD Standards - https://xkcd.com/927/
    • Kotlin Language - https://kotlinlang.org/
    • ACME - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Certificate_Management_Environment
    • SCEP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Certificate_Enrollment_Protocol
    • ACME vs SCEP, from Secure W-2 - https://www.securew2.com/blog/acme-ios-certificate-enrollment

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    Episode 350: Shyam Bhojwani on Workato for MacAdmins Jan 30, 2024

    The world is a collection of not-yet-interconnected endpoints. Today, we’re going to talk to Shyam Bhojwani, Director, Business Technology & Cybersecurity on one of the ways to connect those endpoints!

    Hosts:
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Shyam Bhojwani - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Workato
    • Systematic Community - Workato

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    Episode 349: Andrew Robinson On Evaluating New Tech Jan 22, 2024

    New tech comes and goes faster than ever. In today’s episode we’ll look at evaluating when it’s time to come to users with plans and/or products to help them either embrace or hold off on it, with Andrew Robinson.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Set up iCloud Keychain – Apple Support (AU)
    • Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
    • User Presence vs User Verification
    • Log into Bitwarden with a passkey

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    Episode 348: Stuart and Matt On Aftermath Jan 15, 2024

    Aftermath is a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework. We’re here with the main contributors to the project to talk about incident response, security life on macOS in late 2023, and using good tools to help make security better.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
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    Guests:

    • Stuart Ashenbrenner - LinkedIn
    • Matt Benyo - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Aftermath on Github: https://github.com/jamf/aftermath
    • Jamf post about Aftermath: https://www.jamf.com/blog/aftermath-open-source-incident-response-tool/
    • Jaron’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/OS-Incident-Response-Scripting-Analysis-ebook/dp/B01FHOHHVS
    • Episode with Jaron from the Jamf Threat Labs Team: https://podcast.macadmins.org/2021/08/09/episode-228-supply-chain-attackery/
    • https://xkcd.com/2867/
    • Venator (now retired): https://github.com/richiercyrus/Venator

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    Episode 347: 2024 Prologue Jan 08, 2024
    Flashcast 13: 2023 in Review Dec 30, 2023

    A review of the year that was! 2023 was monumental in so many ways – a huge WWDC, great new hardware, a ton of new management concepts – and 2024 is full of promise. Tom, Charles, Marcus, and Emily take us through the highlights, and have a few predictions for what 2024 will bring.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Dr. Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

    Links:

    • https://eclecticlight.co/2023/12/02/rip-rsr/
    • https://www.sudoade.com/ddm-software-update-logs/
    • https://www.macadmins.in/
    • https://podcast.macadmins.org/2023/07/24/episode-325-karthikeyan-on-being-a-macadmin-in-india/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine
    • Joel’s Talk at MSA: https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video_h265/Day2Session7.mp4

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    Episode 346: Dan K. Snelson Dec 18, 2023

    Dan Snelson has been in the Apple admin community for a long time and builds lots of great tools to help others. Join us this week to celebrate and learn more about his contributions!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Dan K. Snelson - Blog

    Links:

    • AppleShare IP
    • Xserve
    • macOS Server
    • Kaseya
    • JNUC 2017 Beta Program Honor Roll
    • swiftDialog
    • #swiftdialog MacAdmins Slack Channel
    • #setup-your-mac MacAdmins Slack Channel
    • MDMAppsDeploy
    • swiftEnrolment
    • Setup Your Mac (1.13.0): Under-the-hood
    • Setup Your Mac with SYM-Helper.app
    • Setup Your Mac: Racing Stripes, Gotchas and "One More Thing" | JNUC 2023
    • Setup Your Mac: Jamf Pro Policy Validation
    • Actionable messages with Jamf Helper
    • Display Message (0.0.8) via swiftDialog
    • Custom Branded Notifications & Messages with swiftDialog
    • Snippets in Visual Studio Code
    • Jamf Pro LAPS: Retrieving Password via Terminal
    • Brickset.com
    • Sponsoring

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    Episode 345: Scott Reed & Joel Rennich on JumpCloud Go Dec 11, 2023

    Authentication is a big challenge for any organization - how do you decide who gets into what resource, with what security mechanism, and from what device?

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
    • Scott Reed - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • The 1Pass sponsored directory: https://passkeys.directory/
    • JumpCloud Go: https://jumpcloud.com/support/get-started-jumpcloud-go
    • PKCE Flow: https://oauth.net/2/pkce/
    • Amazon Verified Access: https://aws.amazon.com/verified-access/

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    Episode 344: Kevin M. White on Apple Docs Updates Dec 04, 2023

    The Apple Platform Deployment Guide is one of the most impressive and important documents that Apple updates about device management with Apple Devices. This week, we’ll be talking about all the updates with returning guest and friend of the podcast Kevin M. White!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Kevin M White - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Account-driven Device Enrollment
    • How Apple separates user data from organization data
    • Enforcing a minimum version of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
    • Return to Service for iPhone and iPad
    • Enforcing Automated Device Enrollment on macOS 14
    • Automate Apple Configurator processes
    • Passkey Attestation declarative configuration
    • Certificates declarative configuration for Apple devices
    • Manage proprietary in-house apps for Mac computers
    • Apple Watch deployment
    • Service access with Managed Apple IDs
    • Platform Single Sign-on for macOS
      • Joel Rennich’s talk at MacSysAdmin
    • Conn ect Apple devices to 802.1X networks
    • Network relays in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS
    • Relay MDM payload settings for Apple devices
    • Managing 5G Network Slicing
    • super v4

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    Episode 343: Damian Cavanagh on Shortcuts for Admin Tasks Nov 27, 2023

    Shortcuts aren’t just a little Applescript goodness that can be used to make droplets. Although you could do that. Shortcuts can be used to perform fairly complex atomic operations. In this session we’ll look at some of the work Damian Cavanagh has posted to his Github, and the crazy lengths he went to in order to have Shortcuts that work with device management options.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Damian Cavanagh - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • ShortcutsForJamfPro
    • Canvas podcast - Workflow Series
    • Automators podcast - Shortcuts utility apps
    • Actions app GitHub repo

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    Episode 342: Oleg Stukalenko on Moonlock Nov 20, 2023

    After thwarting Russian attackers since well before the invasion, the team at MacPaw in Ukraine has a keen eye on emerging security threats. Today's episode is about their new cybersecurity division called Moonlock.

    Hosts:
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Oleg Stukalenko - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • https://moonlock.com/macos-sonoma-security-and-privacy
    • https://moonlock.com/mac-security-survey-2023

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    Episode 341: Jason Dettbarn Nov 14, 2023

    Fall is that time of the year when we can take stock of the latest Apple releases, measure them against what our expectations were, and see how much tech debt piled up trying to keep up with Apple! We’ll talk through what that looks like from the perspective of an MDM vendor in today’s episode, with Jason Dettbarn, from Addigy.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Jason Dettbarn - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Mac Admins Podcast Listener Survey
    • Durian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
    • Inspired - https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507
    • ASVAB - https://www.officialasvab.com/
    • Joel’s talk on Platform SSO - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video_h265/Day2Session7.mp4
    • Dr. K’s Presentation from MacSysAdmin - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video/Day3Session2.mp4

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    Episode 340: Ashok Amirthalingam on the Mac, Digital Transformation, and Cloud Holdouts Nov 07, 2023

    “Digital transformation” can mean a lot of things to different people. In this episode we unpack it, look at how it helps drive Apple adoption, and maybe get productive (which doesn’t often seem to be the goal of digital transformation but should be).

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Ashok Amirthalingam - Mac Admins Slack

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    Episode 339: Just Us - Getting from A to B Oct 30, 2023

    We have had so many wonderful guests on the Mac Admins Podcast, telling us about things they have created, workflows they have implemented or products they have integrated in their environments. It can be overwhelming to look at your own setup and want it to look like all the things you may have heard about here, or read about on slack, or watched someone present about at one of the many Mac Admins conferences around the world. Today we are going to talk about some tips that may help you to implement change.

    Hosts:
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Links:

    • New Vendor Checklists
    • Jamf Migrator | App Directory
    • Minnesota DMV software project: Faulty Towers/Neverending Story patterns

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    Episode 338: Ben Greisler on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle (and Mac) Maintenance Oct 23, 2023
    Episode 337: Gene Reich tells all about JNUC Oct 16, 2023

    Gene Reich from Point joins the pod this week to tell us all about the 2023 edition of the Jamf Nation User Conference in Austin!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Gene Reich - LinkedIn

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    Episode 336: Live at MacSysAdmin Oct 09, 2023

    Join Tom, Charles, and Emily as they host the Speaker Q&A at MacSysAdmin 2023.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

    Links:

    • MacSysAdmin Conference 2023

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    Episode 335: Just Us on Sonoma and iOS 17 Oct 02, 2023

    Sonoma dropped this weekend, and while this episode will be about a week out, it’s worth talking about something we haven’t really touched on: how vendors define the guidance they give their customers.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

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    Episode 334: What's new at Apple with Jeremy Butcher Sep 26, 2023

    Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s new operating systems for 2023, and all the technologies that Mac Admins can look forward to trying out this Fall! Are you ready for Managed Apple IDs that do more for your business? Are you excited for Software Update with deadlines? Let’s dive in.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Apple Business Essentials
    • AppleCare Products - Apple
    • Using Shortcuts on macOS to create powerful multi-step actions for Stream Deck
    • How We BYO @ Jamf, JNUC 2023

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    Episode 333: Henry and Eric on GitOps Sep 18, 2023

    Today’s episode with Henry & Eric from Zentral looks at what this means in practice and how modern code management tools common in GitOps and infrastructure as code are helping shape an emerging modern device management approach.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Henry Stamerjohann - LinkedIn
    • Éric Falconnier - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann – Mac Admins Podcast
    • Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and Richard Purves
    • Henry’s Talk at MacDevOps YVR: MDOYVR23 - Henry Stamerjohann - Device Management at Scale with Terraform
    • Peek preview Zentral MDM (identity + DDM) at MacDevOps YVR 2021: MDOYVR21 - Henry Stamerjohann - Zentral (Demo Day)
    • Terraform && Zentral:
      • Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
      • Docs overview | zentralopensource/zentral | Terraform
      • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral
      • https://github.com/zentralopensource/circleci-zentral-osquery-example
      • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral-santa-rulesets-pipeline
    • Use OIDC as a provider for AWS: Configuring OpenID Connect in Amazon Web Services - GitHub Docs
    • Zentral - website
      • Henry Stamerjohann, LinkedIn
      • Éric Falconnier, LinkedIn

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    Flashcast 12: Wonderlust Sep 16, 2023

    Join our hosts as we discuss all the announcements from Apple's September 2023 Event, Wonderlust.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge
    • Charles Edge
    • Erin Merchant

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    Episode 332: GitHub Actions and Automating MDM Infrastructure Sep 11, 2023

    Automation is important for all of us, especially a margin business like an MSP. In todays episode we’ll chat with Bobby Hardaway and Ryon Riley of Advisory Solutions to hear about how they automate Jamf infrastructure with GitActions. Hosts:

    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Bobby Hardaway - LinkedIn
    • Ryon Riley - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • GitHub Actions: https://github.com/features/actions
    • Advisory Solutions: https://advisorymsp.com/
    • Penn State MacAdmins talk on GitHub Actions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bznnSyl9i48
    • JNUC Session - AutoPKG for Jamf Pro with GitHub Actions
    • JNUC Session - So what's all the fuss about CI/CD? GitHub Actions for the Mac Admin
    • LAPS Endpoints on Jamf: https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/technical-paper-laps-current/page/Local_Administrator_Password_Solution.html
    • HCS LAPS Documentation: https://hcsonline.com/images/PDFs/Jamf_LAPS.pdf

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    Episode 331: HomeKit Panel Part 2 Sep 04, 2023

    We had a lovely conversation with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson about home automation and specifically HomeKit and the Home App in a previous episode, but we didn’t get to everything. So we decided to have a second one! In this episode we’ll get more into onboarding of devices, Siri voice control, security, automation, and troubleshooting.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Tim Pearson - LinkedIn
    • Bob Gendler - LinkedIn
    • Steve Yuroff - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia
    • https://www.bosch-home.com/
    • https://us.govee.com/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee
    • https://www.z-wave.com/
    • https://www.starlinghome.io/

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    Episode 330: Ben Greiner on Evangelising With MSPs Aug 30, 2023

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    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Transcript:

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    Episode 329: ZTNA with Kane Narraway Aug 22, 2023

    Today’s episode features Kane Narraway talk through his journeys with ZTNA - what they are, what they do, selection criteria, how they integrate with other tools, and all the fun bits that go into getting a pretty interface to wireguard to work seamlessly in your environment.

    Hosts:
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Kane Narraway - LinkedIn

    Links:

    • Black Hat Sessions: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/
    • Defcon Sessions: https://defcon.org/html/defcon-31/dc-31-schedule.html
    • Extensions Manager: https://github.com/krypted/extensionsmanager
    • Google BeyondCorp Zero Trust: https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/
    • Okta + Jamf Unified Identity Access: https://www.jamf.com/integrations/okta/
    • https://www.amazon.com/Extrusion-Detection-Security-Monitoring-Intrusions/dp/0321349962

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    Episode 328: Elliot Jordan and Escrow Buddy Aug 14, 2023

    Today’s guest is Elliot Jordan, Senior Client Systems Engineer at Netflix, here to talk Escrow Buddy, Recipe Robot, AutoPkgr, and about all the fun projects he’s been involved in over the years!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Elliot Jordan

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Mike Solin’s Post on Focus Modes: https://mikesolin.com/2023/08/05/finding-balance-while-working-remotely/
    • Crypt: https://github.com/grahamgilbert/crypt
    • Escrow Buddy: https://github.com/macadmins/escrow-buddy/
    • Stop prompting users for passwords when re-escrowing FileVault keys: https://www.elliotjordan.com/posts/filevault-reissue/
    • MAOS panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyEYsgz5MI
    • Recipe Robot: https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot
    • Stethoscope: https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-netflix-stethoscope-5f3c392368e3
    • Extraordinary Attorney Woo: https://www.netflix.com/title/81518991
    • Mr. Robot: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4158110/
    • Utopia (AU): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)
    • The Bear, Season 2: https://www.hulu.com/guides/the-bear
    • Elliot’s site: https://www.elliotjordan.com/
    • Upcoming JNUC session on Escrow Buddy: https://reg.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2023/home23/page/sessioncatalog/session/1682654671482001Ah7L

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    Episode 327: Community Management with Becky Scott Aug 07, 2023
    Episode 326: Training Up Junior Admins and Support Staff with Evan Walker Jul 31, 2023
    Episode 325: Karthikeyan on Being a MacAdmin in India Jul 24, 2023

    The job of a MacAdmin is a global affair. We’ve done episodes with guests in a number of countries, but wanted to focus on what it’s like in a nation with over 1.4 billion people that’s projected to be the most populous country in the near future.

    Hosts:
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    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Karthikeyan Marappan - LinkedIn

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    Episode 324: Mykola Savin of Setapp Jul 17, 2023
    Episode 323: Collin Elliot on AppleTV Management Jul 11, 2023

    Many of our listeners will have set up AppleTVs at work. Some might use device management tools to configure one or more AppleTVs in ways that allow them to be used in corporate or education environments. We’ll talk through the nuance of AppleTV management in this episode, with Collin Elliot.

    Hosts:
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    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Collin Elliott - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Apple TV. 1st generation-2290.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

    • Carousel Digital Signage

    • GitHub - NU-ITS/Exhibit: Exhibit is a managed screensaver App for tvOS.

    • Plex: Stream Movies & TV on the App Store

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    Episode 322: Operating Systems for Businesses (Part 2) Jul 03, 2023
    Episode 321: Vision Pro Panel with Bryson and Rich Jun 26, 2023

    Vision Pro could be the next big Apple product to change the way humans interact with computing devices. In this episode, we’ll look at some of the SDKs, sensors, and other technologies that have been in the making for a decade that make this technology possible. We’ll explore successes and failures of competing platforms, and think a little about the Vision Pro in the sense of device management, support, and what we might do with them in offices, which shapes how we might manage and support them. Bryson Tyrrell and Rich Trouton join us to talk through what we want, what we think we’ll get, and how we’ll respond to the ever-changing technology landscape.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Bryson Tyrrell - @bryson3gps
    • Rich Trouton - @rtrouton

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • W Industries VR from 1990s https://collection.maas.museum/object/364729
    • The Uncanny Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
    • Oculus for Business: https://business.oculus.com/
    • Rich’s Recording location: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/building-a-home-office/

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    Episode 320: Managing Macs Like We Manage Code Jun 20, 2023

    A lot of organizations want to treat device management like we treat code. Check in changes, get a second party to approve the check in, and the change goes live. That second set of eyes on a change provides a proactive approach to the security of changes made. It also helps mitigate small mistakes that can have a substantial impact on how users interact with their technology. We can then string together a collection of workflows to pipeline facts about devices to a SEIM or trigger events in other solutions. This usually involves agents. Yet we need to bootstrap devices into these types of systems, and that means MDM. In today's episode, we’ll discuss these types of workflows with Mike McNeil and JD Strong, from FleetDM.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Mike McNeil - LinkedIn
    • JD Strong - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    Fleet Device Management links:

    • Fleet Device Management
    • Fleet Documentation - Tables
    • Fleet Documentation - MDM

    Open Source Projects:

    • osquery
    • macadmins/osquery-extension
    • Create user-notifications on macOS with swiftDialog
    • GitHub - macadmins/nudge: A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates.
    • MicroMDM - Mobile Device Management server
    • MDMDirector
    • KMFDDM is an Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM) server. It works together with NanoMDM.
    • Pricing | Fleet for osquery

    Considering Open Source:

    • Great talk by @fat: dotJS 2012 - Fat - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
    • Why this way? | Fleet handbook

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    Episode 319: TC Niedzialkowski on CISOs and MacAdmins Jun 13, 2023

    Early in the podcast, there were plenty of stories of MacAdmins who had contentious relationships with security teams. We hear less and less of that every year. It still happens, but far less. We’ve had guests on to tell us how platform teams can work with infosec, but today we’re joined by a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) to give some tips coming from the other direction.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • TC Niedzialkowski - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Flashcast 11: WWDC 2023 Jun 08, 2023

    It’s that time of the year again, when Apple drops mad-crazy-awesome-sauce updates on us. We’re used to iterative updates that make our lives better. This year we also have new products to manage. No word on whether there will be any management of Vision OS - but we’ll soon be managing Apple Watches. Because see, these are all computers - just like the Vision Pro. In today’s episode we’ll spend far more time talking about hardware, software, and management options. But in the meantime, let’s remind everyone that We often see the first release of Apple products as a bit less than. They can come in more expensive than other products in a given category. Like the iPhone and iPod, it will endure its share of ridicule for its high price and derivative functionality, people will complain about its design and point out its deficiencies. But in a year or five, the rest of the world will catch up to Apple’s vision.

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    Episode 318: MacAD.UK Panel 2023 Jun 06, 2023

    Join Tom & Charles as they chat with Joel Rennich and Ben Toms at the 2023 MacAD.UK Conference in Brighton, England.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Joel Rennich
    • Ben Toms

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    Episode 317: Operating Systems for Businesses (Part 1) May 29, 2023

    Every organization has a set of norms they follow. Within those are processes that people go through routinely - and those aren’t often documented at new organizations (be they orgs within other orgs or new companies). There have been systems like Six Sigma for tracking those processes, but like how neurons know what paths to take - those are only one part of the brain. EOS is one of those business operating systems, like the OS of the brain, that is more comprehensive than just processes, but goes far deeper into an org. Today we’re speaking with Lucas Acosta from Foojee about EOS and how that has helped Foojee

    Hosts:
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    • James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social

    Guests:

    • Lucas Acosta - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • www.lucasacosta.com
    • Lucas Acosta (@lucasaaron) / Twitter
    • Assessments – Rocket Fuel University
    • Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business (Audible Audio Edition)
    • Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Audible Audio Edition): Gino Wickman, Kevin Pierce, Audible Studios: Books
    • Ninety.io cloud-based tool to run EOS

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    Episode 316: Peter Borg May 22, 2023

    Lingon has been a part of the MacAdmins toolkit for as long as recent memory caused us to make launch items. Sandkorn became useful around the same time that we had to start looking at application sandboxes. In today’s episode, we interview the person behind these: Peter Borg

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    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Peter Borg

    Transcript:

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    Links:

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    • Placing Content in a Bundle | Apple Developer Documentation

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    Episode 315: Just Us May 16, 2023

    Rapid Security Response, the iMac turns 25, Apple financials, and… WWDC predictions!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge
    • Charles Edge
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/
    • Rapid Security Response on The IT Hour: The IT Hour | Rapid Security Response updates from Apple 5.5.23
    • https://scriptingosx.com/2023/05/weekly-news-summary-for-admins-2023-05-05/
    • https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2023/04/18/RSR.html
    • Six Colors: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/05/apple-q2-2023-results-94-8b-revenue-better-than-expected/
    • IBM Flying Cars Commercial
    • https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/jamf-announces-ceo-transition-plan-appointing-john-strosahl-as-chief-executive-officer/

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    Episode 314: All About Fonts with Glenn Kowalski May 08, 2023

    MacAdmins have to manage all kinds of things. We talk a lot about settings and features when it comes to device management. But fonts are one of those things that can be important and in fact a security issue as well. For example, if a drug company uses the wrong font they could face massive penalties from regulators. Employees might send out materials with unlicensed fonts. In today’s episode we’ll talk about what’s involved in font management: how to get the right fonts on the right devices and build sustainable workflows so teams can have access to such an important aspect of computing.

    Hosts:
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    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Glenn Kowalski - LinkedIn

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    • Chank Fonts!
    • DfontSplitter « Peter Upfold
    • Extensis
    • Trajan (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    Episode 313: NanoMDM May 02, 2023

    The world of open source MDMs continues to evolve. We’ve had guests on to talk about open source mdm tools in the past but this is one of those episode topics that should come back up routinely. Especially when we see larger scale operations. Today we’ll talk about how NanoMDM could be used to build a dynamic and flexible event-based mdm platform. This type of system is broadly useful to multiple different types of orgs and can have great security benefits.

    Hosts:
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    • Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom
    • Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
    Guests:
    • Ryan Diers, Security Engineer, Airbnb – @radsec
    • Brandon Kurtz, Client Engineering, Airbnb – @discentem
    Links:
    • MicroMDM · GitHub
    • NanoMDM is a minimalist Apple MDM server heavily inspired by MicroMDM
    • NanoDEP is a set of tools and a Go library powering them for communicating with Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP) API servers.
    • Videos – MacDevOpsYVR
    • NanoMDM Sandbox
    • MDMDirector
    • https://radsec.net
    • radsec (Ryan Diers) · GitHub
    • discentem (BK) · GitHub
    • Bk (@muffins222221) / Twitter
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    Episode 312: Selina Ali Apr 25, 2023

    Today, let’s talk about integrations. Most software companies these days want to be a “platform”. Part of that play is to build APIs, document them, and facilitate other companies building integrations as well. But many of us have unique workflows and so have to build our own. In this episode we’ll think about building our own integrations with various tools (e.g. LogicMonitor), and some things to consider when doing so.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom
    • Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
    Guests:
    • Selina Ali, Product Manager, LogicMonitor – LinkedIn
    Links:
    • LogicMonitor SDKs
    • Using LogicMonitor’s REST API
    • API Tokens | LogicMonitor
    • https://developer.connectwise.com/
    • Bonus Question Links:
      • Boat – Wikipedia
      • History of email – Wikipedia
        • Alpine Inn first email: The saga of Alpine Inn aka Zott’s over the years – InMenlo
      • George Mallory – Wikipedia
      • Antikythera mechanism – Wikipedia
      • Pesse canoe – Wikipedia – oldest canoe afaik
      • Is This 10,000-Year-Old Carving Europe’s Oldest Known Depiction of a Boat? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine – one of the oldest boat depictions
    • Selina Ali – LinkedIn
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    Episode 311: Sean Colins Apr 18, 2023

    “Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” - Plato

    There are so many different ways to learn about the MacAdmin field. One that we haven’t covered on the pod is the Lynda.com (now LinkedIn) courses that date back to the era of Mac OS X Server. Today, we’ll hear from its creator Sean Collins about his courses, how the industry has evolved, how being considered an industry “expert” helps with building consulting business, and even a little about his upcoming book called “Technically Fit”.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Sean Colins - @sean_m_colins

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Sean Colins (@sean_m_colins) • Instagram photos and videos
    • Sean Colins - President - Creative Technology Management | LinkedIn
    • https://www.facebook.com/seancolins
    • https://www.technically-fit.com
    • https://www.seancolins.com

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    Episode 310: Baseline with Trevor & Rob Apr 11, 2023

    Configuring new devices with Automated Device Enrollment can be a thoroughly magical experience for the end user receiving their machine, but Apple doesn’t have the entire flow programmed in such a way that it’s obvious to the end user what’s happening. Baseline is a new open-source way to handle some of that messaging, and we’re here today to talk with Rob and Trevor from Second Son Consulting in LA about their development efforts.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Trevor Sysock - @BigMacAdmin@masto.ai
    • Rob Calvert - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Episode 309: X World 2023 Apr 02, 2023

    Join us today for a live panel episode from the X World conference in Melbourne, Australia

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • James Smith - @james@smithjw.me

    Guests:

    • Tony Gray
    • James Corcoran
    • Jon Rhoades
    • Merill Fernando
    • Bart Reardon

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • X World Sessions

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    Episode 308: An academic look at autopkg with Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra Mar 28, 2023

    Packaging every version of each piece of software managed can be incredibly time consuming. Without automation, it would take an inordinate amount of time to download, package, test, and deploy software at a cadence that matches how often third party vendors patch their tools. Autopkg can be one of the biggest time savers for those charged with managing Apple devices. We’ve discussed it in previous episodes but in this episode we’ll talk to Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra about her studies of autopkg at a more academic level.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant): Gibson, William: 9780425198681: Amazon.com: Books
    • GitHub - grahampugh/jamf-upload: Scripts for uploading packages to Jamf Cloud
    • GitHub - autopkg/autopkg: Automating packaging and software distribution on macOS.

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    Episode 307: HomeKit Panel Mar 22, 2023

    HomeKit and the Home app. There are many like it, but this is the kit (no pun intended) that Apple has vetted for automating the home. This ecosystem of products is the culmination of decades of R&D by the home automation industry, made simple - or simple(ish) by Apple. Yet it doesn’t always work as it says on the tin. In this episode we’ll have a panel with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson to talk through what we like, what we don’t, and everything in between!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Tim Pearson
    • Bob Gendler
    • Steve Yuroff

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia

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    Episode 306: Filewave APIs with Josh Levitsky Mar 14, 2023

    We love APIs. It tells us a little about products and a lot about how various vendors feel about structured automation. In today’s episode we’ll chat about the FileWave API - what can be done, what can’t - and of course, some cool uses in a new age of AI for everything! Our guest is Josh Levitsky, Global Head of Pro Services at FileWave, who gets to tinker with the FileWave APIs often.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Josh Levitsky - @jlevitsk

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Carmina Burana - 'In Taberna Quando Sumus' - Carl Orff
    • Bulk Update the Enrollment User (auth_username) using API
    • JumpCloud Restart an MDM Device with Kext Paths: JumpCloud API - 2.0
    • AlmaLinux OS
    • Use the winget tool to install and manage applications | Microsoft Learn
    • Charles’ Similarity script to find GPT-3 and GPT-J sources
    • Forums - FileWave Alliance - Web Forum
    • FileWave Discord Server - Discord Server
    • Josh Levitsky: josh.levitsky@filewave.com / https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlevitsk
    • FileWave Product Management - Knowledge Base - FileWave Knowledge Base (atlassian.net)
    • Script to Bulk Update auth/enrollment username and client name from CSV - Knowledge Base - FileWave Knowledge Base (atlassian.net)

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    Episode 305: Inside Baseball: Getting What You Need From Product Managers Mar 07, 2023

    There’s always news. So we’ll talk about that for a hot minute. We’ll also talk about how to get the most from products that, well, don’t do everything you want them to do. Or at least the ones that don’t do what you want… yet… In other words, let’s chat about how you convince product managers to build what you need.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • X World Sessions – 2023 – AUC
    • Objective by the Sea
    • Automaton 2 Update (Feb 8, 2023) – Twocanoes Software
    • MacSysAdmin
    • MacAD.UK
    • MacAdmins Conference
    • Automaton 2 – Twocanoes Store
    • What is yak shaving?
    • Marty Coffey - Celebrity Speakers

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    Episode 304: webauthn and webauthn.io Feb 27, 2023

    Apple’s version of passkeys are the latest piece of a sprawling identity picture for the Apple platform that isn’t widely supported just yet - which is a perfect time to start learning about it. Passkeys aren’t just Apple; they’re supported on Mac, Windows, Android, and even in our browsers. This evolution in WebAuthn's capabilities means we don’t need physical tokens (although that’s still an option) to have a second factor in auth flows - nor is that other factor tied to a phone number, making it more secure. But for admins, there are plenty of questions we need to figure out. What do we have instead of a username and what is there in lieu of a password? As we develop solutions that work with webauthn, we often use a reference implementation at webauthn.io to test functionality. Our guest today is one of the people behind that site, Matt Miller.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Matthew Miller - @iamkale@infosec.exchange

    Transcript:

    Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona)

    Links:

    • WebAuthn Debugger
    • Project to paste in JSON versions of responses for WebAuthn calls and see their internals: SimpleWebAuthn
    • Chrome extension project to view navigator.credentials endpoints and (if the most recent code checks clean and gets committed in time) paste in JSON versions of responses for WebAuthn calls and see their internals: WebAuthn Inspector
    • Standards body definitions for WebAuthn: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials - Level 2
    • Matt Miller’s Blog - Matt's Headroom
    • SimpleWebAuthn

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    Episode 303: Application Vulnerability Testing Feb 22, 2023

    We have these computers. And they are truly bastion hosts. Nothing comes in, and only that with which we want goes out. They’re perfect when we finish setting them up. Then people make changes and put apps on there. The changes we can mitigate, the apps require a little more analysis. A common strategy to manage that risk is to employ a reputation-based access such as dictated by zero trust - another is to test apps for vulnerabilities, which in a way feeds back into the zero trust decision mechanism in the end. But what kind of tests can be effective, especially since those compiled runtimes don’t tell us a lot about what’s going on. We’ll chat about this paradigm with today’s guest Niels Hofmans, and look for ways to fill up that task list for 2023!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Niels Hofmans - @hazcod

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Intigriti
    • Niels’ GitHub
    • OWASP Foundation
    • OWASP Mobile Application Security
    • CodeQL
    • NVD
    • Belgian Beer Waffles

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    Episode 302: MacADUK 2023 in Brighton! Feb 13, 2023

    Spring is coming, and with it, MacADUK’s return to Brighton, England for this year’s first European Mac Admin Conference. We’re talking with two of the organizing committee, Alex Hawes and James Ridsdale about this year’s conference, what attendees can expect, and what’s important to them in a Mac Admins Conference.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • CHarles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Alex Hawes - @alexdthawes
    • James Ridsdale - @james_ridsdale

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • 2023 Speakers – Mac SysAdmin & Developer Conference – MacAD.UK

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    Episode 301: A Team of One Feb 06, 2023

    According to a recent PDQ survey, 85% of people who manage devices are a team of 1. Many of our guests have a small scope to their job: they manage Macs and/or iPhones. But many in IT manage, well, everything. That means being a jack of many traits: knowing just enough about networking, switches, routers, every piece of software used in an organization, budgeting, or whatever is on the docket at the moment. Today we’re going to cover what it’s like to cover such breadth with Ylan.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Ylan Muller - @HeyItsYlan

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    Episode 300: Just Us Jan 30, 2023

    It’s just us again, and that means we’re talking about everything going on right now. Layoffs, new hardware, Ventura and Deferrals, and then Passkeys, Hardware Tokens and Apple IDs, and more.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom
    Links:
    • What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News
    • MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch – Tech Specs – Apple
    • Mac mini – Technical Specifications – Apple
    • HomePod – Apple
    • Kensington Locking Kit for Mac Studio – Apple
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    Episode 299: Vira Tkachenko, CTO at MacPaw Jan 24, 2023

    We’ve wanted to have an episode with MacPaw since far before Ukraine was invaded on February 24th, 2022. Then we pushed it back over and over out of respect for everything going on. But we’re super-excited to finally have someone on the podcast to talk about what it was like to go through an invasion, the technical infrastructure, tooling, emotional toll, and how they still managed to get work done 11 months into a war. We welcome Vira Tkachenko to the pod to take us through her journey.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Vira Tkachenko - @iVira

    Transcript:

    Click here to read the transcript

    Links:

    • MacPaw Foundation
    • About MacPaw
    • MacPaw’s Operations amidst the Russian Aggression against Ukraine
    • Ukraine's MacPaw releases SpyBuster, designed to beat Russian hacks | AppleInsider
    • MacPaw Inc. · GitHub
    • How Ukraine’s MacPaw got its business ready for war | Computerworld

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    Episode 298: Stringing Together Workflows Jan 18, 2023

    One of the most useful things we do is to automate tasks. Some of those tasks might be opening and closing tickets; others would be making a change on an endpoint that we want to behave in a specific way. We buy devices, or procure them, and we dispose of them when they’re out of date or broken. Between those tasks, we on-board and off-board the humans who use the devices. We make sure the devices meet our requirements. Much of what is expected of us wouldn’t be possible without teams of people running around looking at settings without software that helps us along the way. The tasks themselves, while we feel are pretty unique on Apple devices, are often similar across platforms. We’ll chat with Flora Walters in today’s episode about her journey, scope, and some of the tools that make her job possible in today’s episode.

    Hosts:
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Guests:

    • Flora Walters - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Episode 297: Wartime Conferences in Ukraine Jan 09, 2023

    We wish we could just talk nerd. But the world is a complicated place - and there are questions we would be remiss if we didn’t ask! This week, we are honored to have Yuri Vlasyuk join us as our special guest. Yuri is the CEO of iLand and an organizer of MacAdminsUA. We will of course talk nerd, but also much more!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Yuri Vlasyuk - @iyura

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    Flashcast 10: 2022 Wrap-up Dec 30, 2022

    2022 is just about over, so let’s talk about everything that’s happened this year, as well as make some outrageous and likely wrong predictions for 2023!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

    Links:

    • How To: Get the currently logged in user, in a more Apple approved way – macmule
    • Getting the current user in macOS – Update – Scripting OS X
    • About the Mac Admins Foundation
    • About X World – AUC
    • MacAD.UK
    • MacAdmins Conference
    • MacDevOpsYVR
    • Jamf Nation User Conference
    • WWDC22 - Apple Developer
    • Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac Notebooks - Apple
    • Belkin iPhone Mount with MagSafe for Mac desktops and displays - Apple
    • AppleSeed for IT
    • Rapid Security Responses on Apple devices
    • Introduction to Apple platform deployment
    • Announcing Kandji's Support for Declarative Device Management
    • Jamf Announces Same-Day Support for macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16
    • Adopt declarative device management - WWDC22 - Videos - Apple Developer
    • Kolide
    • GitHub - macadmins/nudge: A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates.
    • Create user-notifications on macOS with swiftDialog
    • Mactracker
    • Apple Will Buy Chips Produced at Arizona Factory - CNET
    • View activities in the Dynamic Island on iPhone - Apple Support
    • Turning Off Work with iOS 15 Focus Modes – Cannonball
    • GitHub - usnistgov/macos_security: macOS Security Compliance Project
    • Compliance Editor
    • Duolingo

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    Episode 296: Business people don’t hate tech people with Nate Walck Dec 20, 2022

    The nature of the role of a Mac admin is different at big and small companies. Like many jobs, we have a smaller scope in larger companies - but potentially a larger impact. Every choice or line of code at a true enterprise scale has a resounding effect. At smaller companies, we take the blinders off given that we don’t step on other people’s toes. The role of a Mac admin might include security, compliance, developer operations, and even business analysis. Today, we’re going to talk with Nate Walck about his journey from a CPE at a large enterprise to working at a startup and how that transition has been.

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Nate Walck

    Transcript:

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    • Kandji
    • Black Glove
    • Mosyle
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    Episode 295: Just Us - Ventura and iOS 16 - How are they going and what do we love/hate? Dec 13, 2022

    iOS 16 was released on September 12 and Ventura on October 24. We all went through the rollercoaster of the post-WWDC Betas, but how have they both fared out there in the wildlands of prod? What features do we love and which still need a little work? In this episode, Tom, Marcus, and Charles chat Ventura, iOS 16, and even a little about Tom’s awesome holiday sweater!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318

    Transcript:

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    Sponsors:

    • Kandji
    • Mosyle
    • Watchman Monitoring

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    Episode 294: Crowdstrike Falcon, Security Deployment Techniques, & Threat Awareness Dec 06, 2022

    Once upon a time we claimed the Mac couldn’t get a virus. Now we know the folly of our ways. There is a red ocean of endpoint protection solutions for the platform today, but we’re curious to better understand the requirements and the benefits. Crowdstrike Falcon is one of those tools and we’ve asked Bilal Habib to join us for this episode to discuss what it is, how it does it, and what are some things an admin needs to know. But we want to tell that story as a journey for how someone in the trenches actually got to know the things!

    Hosts:
    • Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
    • Charles Edge - @cedge318
    • Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

    Guests:

    • Bilal Habib - LinkedIn

    Transcript:

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    Links:

    • Crowdstrike Products: Endpoint, Cloud & Identity Protection Products | CrowdStrike
    • Downloading Crowdstrike for Fun and Profit, from Richard Purves: Downloading Crowdstrike via API for Fun and Profit – Richard Purves
    • Bundle IDs for Crowdstrike: Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor v6.11+ Big Sur and M1 De... - Jamf Nation Community
    • Source Code for Elk Cloner for the 6502 (from the guy that wrote it)

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    • Kandji
    • Black Glove
    • Mosyle
    • Watchman Monitoring

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