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 - @[email protected]
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Mike McNeil - LinkedIn
• JD Strong - LinkedIn

Transcript:

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

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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