MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 27: Graham Gilbert, Writing & Contributing to Open Source SYNOPSIS

The Panel talks with Graham Gilbert, former consultant, now in-house systems engineer at Airbnb in San Francisco about writing and contributing to Open Source, amongst other things.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]

   

• James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]

GUEST:

• Graham Gilbert, Systems Engineer, Airbnb [@grahamgilbert]

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Graham’s Projects:
Sal
Crypt2
Crypt-Server
Imagr

Puppet Learning VM

Who Were You, DenverCoder9? What Did You See?

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 26: Conference Talks, with Nadyne Richmond and John Welch SYNOPSIS

The Panel talks with longtime conference committee planners John Welch (MacIT/Macworld Expo) and Nadyne Richmond (MacIT/Macworld Expo/MacTech) about proposing good conference talks, preparing those talks, and everything conference-related.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Adam Codega, IT Operations Leader at Upserve, [@adamcodega
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]

   

• James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]

GUEST:

• Nadyne Richmond, Senior Manager of User Experience, Genentech [@nadyne]
• John Welch, Assistant Director for Technical Service at the Northwest Regional Datacenter at FSU, [@bynkii]

LISTEN! LINKS & NOTES

Tom’s Nestie

Documentation Talk: Take Vacations Using this One Weird Trick – Documentation! by Vanessa White and Rich Trouton

PSU MacAdmins CFP
X World CFP

Make Me Smart Podcast

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 25: You Can’t Spell Function Without Fun, with John Kitzmiller SYNOPSIS

John Kitzmiller joins the podcast to talk about the MacAdmins.org Slack instance and how it came to be, as well as his excellent guitar collection, how to correctly say GIF, and why the only stickers you put on your laptop should be over the screws on the underside.

YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

   

• James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]

GUEST:

• John Kitzmiller, Fastly, JohnKitzmiller.com, [@JohnKitzmiller]

  LINKS & NOTES

The Apple Community Has Standards for Malware

Swift-Based Ransomware

Ransomewhere

Agile Deployment for Macs, from MacADUK 2016

Netflix Stethoscope

SHA-1 Collision

This MacBook Came Back From China With Half Its Screws Missing

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 24: Physical, Digital & Emotional Security, with Scott Piper YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

   

• James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]

GUEST:

• Scott Piper, Director of Security for Colorado-based security company, SummitRoute.com, [@summitroute]

LISTEN! SYNOPSIS

The gang talks with Scott Piper about security of all types, and where we’re all heading, security-wise. Is Anti-Virus a good idea? What should we actually be doing to make ourselves more secure? Some prognostication about WWDC occurs.

LINKS & NOTES

Cone of Silence

Start Your Passwords with a Slash

SIP

OS X Lockdown

Mosen Profile Docs

ASD iOS Guide

NIST on 2FA/SMS

Phishing graphs & stats (PDF)

Comparing Security Techniques

Serene

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com

   

• James Smith, Editing & Sound Mix [@smithjw]

GUEST:

• Henry Stamerjohann, Apfelwerk GmbH & Zentral
• Éric Falconnier, Zentral
• Richard Purves, Senior Mac Consultant at REDACTED

SYNOPSIS

A live episode taped at Mac AD UK in London, with guests Richard Purves (returning), Henry Stamerjohann & Éric Falconnier joining Tom, Pepijn and Charles to talk about the MacADUK conference.

LINKS & NOTES

Charles Edge: MDM
Tom Bridge: Munki Mistakes Made Right
Pepijn Bruienne: 
Henry Stamerjohann & Éric Falconnier: Zentral
Richard Purves: SmartCard Authentication

Mac Admins Podcast, Episode 12 with Richard Purves

Apfelwerk — consultants, apple trainers, MSP and JAMF reseller/integrator

Zentral Basic Information
Zentral Project code
Zentral Project wiki
Zentral Project deployment

OSquery – endpoint visibility

Santa – binary whitelisting/blacklisting and monitoring

ELK Stack (now the Elastic Stack) + Beats
Log management platform, a collection of open-source products + logshipping with beats
Elastic Search
Kibana
Beats
Logstash

Vector ClockAn algorithm for generating a partial ordering of events in a distributed system and detecting causality violations.

Nagios – IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Icinga – Computer system and network monitoring application.

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 22: Joel Rennich, Trusource Labs YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot Inc., [@emilyooo]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

GUEST:

• Joel Rennich, General Manager, Trusource Labs [@mactroll

SYNOPSIS

Joel Rennich returns to the Mac Admins Podcast to talk about NoMAD, upcoming features of the nascent 1.1 release, and what the future holds for authentication on the Mac. In addition, the group discusses the current featureset of the betas in macOS, iOS and tvOS.

Joel’s dog briefly guests.

LINKS & NOTES

NoMAD Home
NoMAD Downloads

iOS 10.3 goes to APFS

10.12.4 features

tvOS 10.2 features

Mosen’s Profile Docs

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 21: Paul Bowden, Microsoft APEX YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, Retailmenot [@emilyooo]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

GUEST:

• Paul Bowden, Principal Engineer, Office for Mac, Microsoft [@mrexchange]

LISTEN! SYNOPSIS

Paul Bowden is the Principal Engineer for the Office for Mac group, as part of the Microsoft Apple Productivity Experience Group (APEX). He talks with our hosts about how Microsoft works with Mac Sysadmins in Slack, his history with Microsoft, what it’s like to work at Microsoft, and where Office for Mac is going.

And a little bit about pigs and goats.

LINKS & NOTES

Office Insider builds
MacAdmins.Software Page
The A-Team at APEX

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 20: David Acland, Mac Admins & Developers Conference UK YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com

GUEST:

• David Acland, Technical Director at Amsys, Conference Manager at Mac Admins & Developers Conference, UK

SYNOPSIS

The Mac Admins & Developers Conference UK is just a few weeks away, and the Mac Admins Podcast sits down with their Conference Manager, David Acland to talk about what’s happening at this year’s event.

LINKS & NOTES

MacADUK Conference Home
Speakers at 2017 MacADUK
Amsys
Amsys Training

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 19: The Year in Review YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Dr. Emily Kausalik, IT Support Engineer, RetailMeNot, Inc. [@emilyooo]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

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LISTEN! SYNOPSIS

The team talks about the year that was in 2016, from the Apple/FBI dustup, through to a review of conferences that happened, to the release of the iPhone 7/7 Plus and the MacBook Pro with TouchBar. We give our rants and raves of the whole year in this video/audio podcast.

LINKS & NOTES

Apple/FBI Dispute

m(DM)acOS

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MacAdmins.org Podcast, Episode 18: Hardware Hacking in the New Era YOUR HOSTS:

• Tom Bridge, Partner at Technolutionary LLC [@tbridge]
• Adam Codega, IT Operations Leader at Upserve [@adamcodega]
• Charles Edge, Director of Professional Services at JAMF Software, That Guy at Krypted.com [@cedge318]
• Pepijn Bruienne, R&D Engineer at Duo Security [@bruienne], Proprietor of EnterpriseMac.Bruienne.com
• Marcus Ransom, Professional Services Manager at Education Advantage, [@marcusransom]

GUEST HOSTS:

• Erik Gomez, Client Platform Engineer at Pinterest[@contains_eng]

LISTEN! SYNOPSIS

Erik Gomez joins the gang to talk about testing the new Touch Bar MacBook Pro, finding new preference settings, and the state of the Mac as a whole.

LINKS & NOTES

Activation for TouchBar Macs, Part One
Activation for TouchBar Macs, Part Two
Preferences for the TouchBar

This Week in Frogorland: Using python to determine the status of SIP on the Mac, without using csrutil and nvram.

How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists – Mark Gurman for Bloomberg

Cables, Adapters, Devices for the Brave New Mac World

Tools Erik mentioned:
* strings (from cli tools)
* fs_usage
* ripgrep
* Apple Debug profiles and YUCKY UNIX scripts
* Hopper

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