Mac Admins Podcast

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 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  

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 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

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/ Sponsors: Kandji Kolide 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

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-c

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide 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 Cin

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide 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  

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security 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

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security 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, Tobia

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security 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, Tobi

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/ Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security 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 Weld

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security 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 Tw

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security 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  

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit Nudge Security 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

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 Charles Edge - @cedge318 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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Siit IT Helpdesk Nudge Security Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macad

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide 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!

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 Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitor

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/ Sponsors: Kandji Kolide 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,

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