Mac Admins Podcast

Threat hunting and forensics is possibly one of the most interesting aspects of IT. It’s like we’re starring in our own version of one of those crime shows. But we can wear sweats and pet the cat while we work. No, we still can’t have two people typing on the same keyboard like on TV but thank you for asking. But we do get a glimpse into some pretty cool stuff

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777
• Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom, Apple Systems Architect, CompNow – @marcusransom

Guests:

• Erika Noerenberg

Links

• Australian Contact “Traceys”
• DFRWS
• Evasion jailbreak
• Shlayer
• Bundlore
• Stuxnet
• Crack 99
• Teamviewer APIs

Listen:

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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

Mac Admins Podcast Community Calendar, Sponsored by Watchman Monitoring

Conferences Event Name Location Dates Format Cost Mac Admins Campfire Sessions Online 3, 10, 17, 24 June; 8, 15, 22, 29 July 2021 Synchronous • Thursdays 13:00-15:00 EDT (UTC-4) Free MacAdminsUA Online 16 September Synchronous Free Objective by the Sea Maui, Hawaii, USA 28 September – 01 October 2021 In-person • 2 days training, 2 days presentations Free or USD$499 Corporate MacSysAdmin Online 5–8 October 2021 Asynchronous • New sessions available daily Free (Optional T-shirt purchase) Jamf Nation User Conference Online 19–21 October 2021 Synchronous • 3 consecutive days Free MacTech Conference TBA 3rd Quarter 2021 or later TBA TBA MacAD.UK London, UK March 2022 In-person • 2 consecutive days £495-595 Upcoming Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost Future Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost London Apple Admins Pub Online (see #laa-pub in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) Most Thursdays at 5 p.m.-ish (17:00 UTC) Free #ANZMac Channel Happy Hour Online (see #anzmac in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) Thursdays 5 p.m. AEST Free Sponsor the Mac Admins Podcast:

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Most Mac Admins use a device management tool – be it agentless (ie MDM which arguably has a first party agent) or one that uses an agent to provide more capabilities than the MDM protocol does on its own. Recently, we’ve seen a number of attacks that target systems used to keep computers updated and matching security requirements. Today’s episode explores a recent article in Wired about the potential behind supply chain attacks on the Jamf platform – with about the best people you could be having talk about it, people from Jamf!

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777
• Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom, Apple Systems Architect, CompNow – @marcusransom

Guests:

• Matthias Wollnik (Product Marketing Manager, Security)
• Catherine (Katie) McKay, Consulting Engineer for Security
• Jaron Bradley, Detections Lead

Links

• Black Hat Talk
• Wired Story
• History of Defcon
• All the defcon talks
• Defcon Red Teaming
• The Cuckoo’s Egg
• XCSSET Zero-day Exploit
• Ken Thompson’s Reflections of Trust
• Handbrake hacked
• Jaron’s Blog
• Jaron’s Book

Listen:

Sponsors: Patreon Sponsors:

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

Mac Admins Podcast Community Calendar, Sponsored by Watchman Monitoring

Conferences Event Name Location Dates Format Cost Mac Admins Campfire Sessions Online 3, 10, 17, 24 June; 8, 15, 22, 29 July 2021 Synchronous • Thursdays 13:00-15:00 EDT (UTC-4) Free MacAdminsUA Online 16 September Synchronous Free Objective by the Sea Maui, Hawaii, USA 28 September – 01 October 2021 In-person • 2 days training, 2 days presentations Free or USD$499 Corporate MacSysAdmin Online 5–8 October 2021 Asynchronous • New sessions available daily Free (Optional T-shirt purchase) Jamf Nation User Conference Online 19–21 October 2021 Synchronous • 3 consecutive days Free MacTech Conference TBA 3rd Quarter 2021 or later TBA TBA MacAD.UK London, UK March 2022 In-person • 2 consecutive days £495-595 Upcoming Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost Future Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost London Apple Admins Pub Online (see #laa-pub in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) Most Thursdays at 5 p.m.-ish (17:00 UTC) Free #ANZMac Channel Happy Hour Online (see #anzmac in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) Thursdays 5 p.m. AEST Free Sponsor the Mac Admins Podcast:

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Sometimes compliance seems like a bunch of checkboxes. And it can be. But in today’s episode we’re going to spend some time looking at what all those checkboxes mean, where they came from, and how we as admins might be impacted when our organization starts the process of acting like a grown up. Our guest is Shrav Mehta of Secureframe, who unpacks what all this means to us.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Shrav Mehta, Secureframe

Links:

• SOC2 Domains: https://www.aicpa.org/content/dam/aicpa/interestareas/frc/assuranceadvisoryservices/downloadabledocuments/trust-services-criteria.pdf
• AICPA: https://www.aicpa.org
• Secureframe: https://secureframe.com
• ISO 27001: https://www.iso.org/isoiec-27001-information-security.html
• Fedramp: https://www.fedramp.gov
• PCI: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org 
• CMMC: https://www.acq.osd.mil/cmmc/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Alectrona Patch
• Halp
• 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

We welcome back Jeremy Butcher from Apple to talk about Declarative Management, Apple’s new framework for Mobile Device Management, as well as macOS Monterey, Erase all Contents and Settings, and why the M1 Macs are changing enterprise Mac deployment for the better.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

Guests:

• Jeremy Butcher, Product Marketing at Apple

Links

New Mac page on Apple’s business website
What’s New for Business – WWDC 2021 [PDF]
new findings from Forrester looking at the Total Economic Impact of Mac in the Enterprise
Video: What’s new in managing Apple Devices WWDC21 – https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10130/
Video: Meet declarative device management WWDC21 – https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10131

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• Watchman Monitoring

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

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

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 Macadmins use Suspicious Package regularly. Many also use Apparency. But few know much about the person behind all this awesomeness. In today’s episode we’ll interview Randy Saldinger, of Mothers Ruin Software and talk about plenty of suspicious topics, from packaging to making software scriptable to… the future of distribution (or as much as we can ascertain given the current available information).

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Randy Saldinger

Links:

• Mother's Ruin 

• Doin’ Mac Pkgs Rong

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

Most Mac Admins use a lot of Apple products. A lot of us also use Homekit either at home or at work. And some of us run a special server just to bridge all the things (maybe running on a Mac or a pihole in the basement). We’ve discussed home automation on the pod, but in today’s episode we’ll dig in deeper, with developers from the popular hombridge.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

• Andi
• Sean

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

This week’s episode digs in a bit on something we feel we glossed over in the previous episode with Greg Neagle. Innovation runs rampant in the open source communities (in a good way). Why is that? What about the open source community brings us Apache, Tomcat, and other technologies that end up changing the world? We solve this multi-trillion dollar question on this episode; or we just jabber on; we’ll let you decide which! Hosts:

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

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

On this week’s episode, we bring Greg Neagle back to discuss what’s new in Munki, & its transition to a native app on Apple Silicon, Some more follow-up from WWDC & where we think the conference space is heading in the future, and wrap up with a discussion on Open Source and how you can contribute to projects you love!

 

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Greg Neagle, a major animation studio you may have heard of

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• 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

We pick new stuff up here and there. Little things that when combined together add up to give us a pretty comprehensive knowledge of the Apple ecosystem. In this episode we’ll look at some of the little things we’ve picked up along the way; some new, some old, some just new to us!

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo

Links:

• Jamf Unlock (and Azure iDP) 
• Inside the Content Caching server: performance and troubleshooting
• UserVoice - How can we improve App catalog, App install or App updates experience in Creative Cloud Desktop?.
• How I Found A Vulnerability To Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted To It 
• SOC 2 Admin and Control Owner Responsibilities - JumpCloud 
• Scripting OS X - Weekly News

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• Watchman Monitoring

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

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

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

With WWDC 2021 in the rear view mirror, Tom, Charles, Marcus, & James have gotten back together to discuss what they learned after taking a deep dive into the management and development track sessions of this year's World Wide Developer Conference.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Charles Edge - @cedge318
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• James Smith - @smithjw

Links:

• WWDC 2021 - What’s new in managing Apple devices
• WWDC 2021 - Discover account-driven User Enrollment
• WWDC 2021 - Manage devices with Apple Configurator
• WWDC 2021 - Manage software updates in your organization
• WWDC 2021 - Improve MDM assignment of Apps and Books
• WWDC 2021 - Meet declarative device management
• What is Apple Declarative Device Management?

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Secureframe
• Alectrona Patch
• Watchman Monitoring

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

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

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