Mac Admins Podcast

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!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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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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…)

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Zach Wasserman - LinkedIn

Links:

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

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

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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

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?

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan
• James Smith - @[email protected]

Links:

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password

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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

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

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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

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.

• Tom Bridge – @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom – @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle – @emilyooo

Links:

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• 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

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• 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

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan
• James Smith - @[email protected]

Links:

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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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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

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

• Charles Edge - @cedge318

• Justin Esgar - LinkedIn

• ACES Conference Tickets (with discount)
• ACES Conference

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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