Mac Admins Podcast

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.

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

Links:

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

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

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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

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

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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

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.

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

Guests:

• Jordan Burnette - LinkedIn

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

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.

• 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

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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

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!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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

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!

• 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

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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

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.

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

Guests:

• Maxine Davenport - LinkedIn
• Liam Donnelly - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.macad.uk
• [email protected]

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Siit
• Nudge Security
• 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

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?

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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