Mac Admins Podcast

After thwarting Russian attackers since well before the invasion, the team at MacPaw in Ukraine has a keen eye on emerging security threats. Today's episode is about their new cybersecurity division called Moonlock.

• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

• Oleg Stukalenko - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://moonlock.com/macos-sonoma-security-and-privacy
• https://moonlock.com/mac-security-survey-2023

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Fall is that time of the year when we can take stock of the latest Apple releases, measure them against what our expectations were, and see how much tech debt piled up trying to keep up with Apple! We'll talk through what that looks like from the perspective of an MDM vendor in today's episode, with Jason Dettbarn, from Addigy.

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

Guests:

• Jason Dettbarn - LinkedIn

Links:

• Mac Admins Podcast Listener Survey
• Durian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
• Inspired - https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507
• ASVAB - https://www.officialasvab.com/
• Joel's talk on Platform SSO - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video_h265/Day2Session7.mp4
• Dr. K's Presentation from MacSysAdmin - https://docs.macsysadmin.se/2023/video/Day3Session2.mp4

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"Digital transformation" can mean a lot of things to different people. In this episode we unpack it, look at how it helps drive Apple adoption, and maybe get productive (which doesn't often seem to be the goal of digital transformation but should be).

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

Guests:

• Ashok Amirthalingam - Mac Admins Slack

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

We have had so many wonderful guests on the Mac Admins Podcast, telling us about things they have created, workflows they have implemented or products they have integrated in their environments. It can be overwhelming to look at your own setup and want it to look like all the things you may have heard about here, or read about on slack, or watched someone present about at one of the many Mac Admins conferences around the world. Today we are going to talk about some tips that may help you to implement change.

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

Links:

• New Vendor Checklists
• Jamf Migrator | App Directory
• Minnesota DMV software project: Faulty Towers/Neverending Story patterns

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Watchman Monitoring

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Gene Reich from Point joins the pod this week to tell us all about the 2023 edition of the Jamf Nation User Conference in Austin! 

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

Guests:

• Gene Reich - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

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• Kolide
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Join Tom, Charles, and Emily as they host the Speaker Q&A at MacSysAdmin 2023.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

Links:

• MacSysAdmin Conference 2023

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

Sonoma dropped this weekend, and while this episode will be about a week out, it’s worth talking about something we haven’t really touched on: how vendors define the guidance they give their customers.

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

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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

Jeremy Butcher rejoins the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about Apple’s new operating systems for 2023, and all the technologies that Mac Admins can look forward to trying out this Fall! Are you ready for Managed Apple IDs that do more for your business? Are you excited for Software Update with deadlines? Let’s dive in.

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

Guests:

• Jeremy Butcher - LinkedIn

Links:

• Apple Business Essentials 
• AppleCare Products - Apple
• Using Shortcuts on macOS to create powerful multi-step actions for Stream Deck
• How We BYO @ Jamf, JNUC 2023

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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

Today’s episode with Henry & Eric from Zentral looks at what this means in practice and how modern code management tools common in GitOps and infrastructure as code are helping shape an emerging modern device management approach.

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

Guests:

• Henry Stamerjohann - LinkedIn
• Éric Falconnier - LinkedIn

Links:

• Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann – Mac Admins Podcast

• Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and Richard Purves

• Henry’s Talk at MacDevOps YVR: MDOYVR23 - Henry Stamerjohann - Device Management at Scale with Terraform

• Peek preview Zentral MDM (identity + DDM) at MacDevOps YVR 2021: MDOYVR21 - Henry Stamerjohann - Zentral (Demo Day)

• Terraform && Zentral:
  • Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
  • Docs overview | zentralopensource/zentral | Terraform
  • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral
  • https://github.com/zentralopensource/circleci-zentral-osquery-example
  • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral-santa-rulesets-pipeline

• Use OIDC as a provider for AWS: Configuring OpenID Connect in Amazon Web Services - GitHub Docs

• Zentral - website
  • Henry Stamerjohann, LinkedIn
  • Éric Falconnier, LinkedIn

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• Kandji
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