Ross Matsuda joins the Podcast from Ntiva, where he manages a ton of Macs in a ton of different systems and ways. This episode is going to cover the challenge of managing Macs at scale, but not from the same platform

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

Guests:

• Ross Matsuda - LinkedIn

Links:

• Sudoade - Ross’ Apple Administration blog
• Add personality to your app through UX writing

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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Chris Chapman joins us from MacStadium, returning after 200 episodes, to tell us all about Orka Desktop, help us understand VMs that can be defined in code, and how we can all have more performant and better testing environments!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle -  @emilyooo

Guests:

• Chris Chapman, CTO, MacStadium - LinkedIn

Links:

• Orka Desktop | Deploy macOS virtual machines (VMs) on your local machine for testing & QA 
• Open Container Initiative

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Alectrona
• Watchman Monitoring

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Join Tom and Marcus live from the Penn State MacAdmins Conference.

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

Guests:

• Michael Epping - LinkedIn
• Pam Lefkowitz - LinkedIn
• Joshua Miller - LinkedIn

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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Mike Boylan from Kandji joins the pod to talk about Kandji’s new approach to configurations management as part of their new Assignment Maps feature.

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

Guests:

• Mike Boylan - LinkedIn

Links:

• Assignment Maps | Kandji Launch Event | June 2024
• Assignment Maps vs Classic Blueprints
• Assignment Maps Overview
• Best Practices for Building Assignment Maps

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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It’s just us this week, as we prepare for Penn State Mac Admins, as well as start the Beta Season. Here’s everything we’re thinking about as we get ready for the most exciting 3 months of Mac Admin life each year!

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

Guests:

• Joel Rennich - LinkedIn

Links:

• Apple’s “Home on iPod” is Back | WIRED
• Home on the iPod | Macworld

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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Trust is a subject we regularly discuss with our guests. How do we trust our users, how do we trust the software they want to run, how do we trust the devices they are on. In the modern world where you can’t believe everything a computer or mobile device is telling you about itself, how do we make sure that the devices we are managing and granting access to the privileged information we need to secure are in fact what they say they are? Jedda Wignall put together a very comprehensive deep dive into Managed Device attestation last year and we’ve been looking forward to having him on the podcast to talk through it. Welcome to the MacAdmins Podcast Jedda!

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

Guests:

• Jedda Wignall - LinkedIn

Links:

• Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices - a technical exploration
• Managed Device Attestation for Apple devices – Apple Platform Deployment Guide
• Smallstep - ACME Device Attestation Explained
• Google Linux Attestation (GitHub) google/go-attestation
• Duo Security - MDM Me Maybe: Device Enrollment Program Security

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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Zach Wasserman from Fleet DM joins the podcast this week to talk about software updates, osquery, DDM, and more! This wide-ranging conversation will cover all manner of new things… (To be finished once we get the full knowledge of WWDC…)

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

Guests:

• Zach Wasserman - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://fleetdm.com/device-management

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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In this episode, we’ll talk about security, ATT&CK, and the changing landscape of Mac security with one of our favoritest guests, Cat Self.

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

Guests:

• Cat Self - LinkedIn

Links:

• MITRE ATT&CK®
• Getting Started with ATT&CK (video)
• ATT&CK Framework v15 Update Log
• What is STIX/TAXII? | Cloudflare
• Blog on pulling MITRE ATT&CK data sources with JuypterLab
• Malware Unicorn: Dylib Injection Attacks
• Atomic Red Team Tests
• I created Lutherans
• Atomic Test Harness
• zScaler Advisories
• https://x.com/Technop54777070/status/1788603343843074187
• Claimed by hackers, Zscaler says there’s no impact or compromise | Cybernews 
• The ESF Playground – The Mitten Mac
• A Deep Dive into the OceanLotus Adversary Emulation for macOS & Linux 
• https://github.com/center-for-threat-informed-defense/adversary_emulation_library/blob/master/ocean_lotus/Emulation_Plan/OceanLotus_Scenario.md

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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So it feels like we should all be wearing white jumpsuits with awesome rainbow stripes, preparing to jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane… It’s been a whirlwind week since the Keynote and now we have finally gotten to watch “What’s new in Device Management” (note the different name this year!) - we thought it would be fun to get together and livestream our thoughts. So, before we get into the details, what would you give the Keynote out of 10?

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @modtitan
• James Smith - @[email protected]

Links:

• Using iCloud with macOS virtual machines | Apple Developer Documentation
• What’s New in Privacy
• What’s new in Device Management
• Private Cloud Compute

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password

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Six Months into the Vision Pro, where are we? What’s working? What’s not? How are people thinking about this new technological innovation?

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

Guests:

• Joel Rennich - LinkedIn
• Bryson Tyrrell - LinkedIn
• Gerard Massey - LinkedIn

Links:

• Jamf Trust on Vision Pro
• How to Manage and Secure Apple Vision Pro
• ForeFlight - Voyager

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• Kolide
• Alectrona
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