Mac Admins Podcast

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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!

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

Guests:

• Shyam Bhojwani - LinkedIn

Links:

• Workato
• Systematic Community - Workato

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

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

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

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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

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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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 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

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?

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

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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 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!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• 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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Watchman Monitoring

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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.

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

Guests:

• Damian Cavanagh - LinkedIn

Links:

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

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