MacDevOpsYVR podcast

Mat X and JD are joined by Mykola Grymalyuk to discuss how he got into creating Open Core Legacy Patcher, getting into security and trying to unravel Apple Silicon VMs. Check out his security talk at MacDevOps:YVR 2024

https://github.com/khronokernel

https://khronokernel.com/

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Custom Serials, DEP Enrolment and the Secure Enclave

Csaba Fitzl: “Secure coding XPC services” blog series

Google’s Project Zero

Jamf’s Compliance Editor

SecondSon Consulting’s Baseline project

SwiftDialog project

Thank you to all our great MacDevOps:YVR 2024 sponsors! MacStadium, Fleet, SimpleMDM, Workbrew and DBQ Technology 

Sponsors

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MacDevOps:YVR 2024 conference is June 19-21, 2024. Mat X and JD are joined by Bart Reardon to chat about his open source project Swift Dialog, using SwiftUI and running an open source project.

swiftDialog

Swift Dialog documentation 

Projects that use swift Dialog

Thank you to all our great MacDevOps:YVR 2024 sponsors! Fleet, SimpleMDM and Workbrew  

Sponsors

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Mat X and JD are joined by Stuart Ashenbrenner, macOS Security Researcher at HuntressLabs, to discuss Aftermath, a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework, and being a Millennial Girl Dad.

MacDevOps:YVR 2024 conference is June 19-21, 2024.

Acronym expansion:

EDR – Endpoint detection and response

Video:

MDO YVR 2023 – (dm)XProtect: Stop, Drop, Shut malware down before it opens up shop 

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Our tenth anniversary edition of MacDevOps:YVR is next June 2024. Planning and preparations have already begun. Mat X and JD are joined by Nick Zolotko,  one of our amazing behind the scenes organizers for the tenth annual MDOYVR Conference.

MDOYVR 2023 call for speakers

MacDevOps:YVR 2023 is a week away. Mat X and JD are joined by Joel Rennich one of our speakers to chat about the upcoming ninth annual MDOYVR Conference, Hack Night, and some of what was seen at WWDC.

June 20 – Workshops and pre-conference social

June 21-22 – Two full days of talks and panels and the famous hallway track including a fun hack night on June 21st!

MDOYVR 2023 conference schedule

Links:

DataIntell – storage analytics

Archiware P5 – software for archiving all the things (LTO, cloud, everything)

WWDC 2023 – What’s new in managing Apple devices

Explore advances in Declarative Device Management (WWDC 2023 Video)

KMFDDM is an Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM) server. It works together with NanoMDM. (See also MicroMDM)

What’s new in Swift (WWDC 2023 Videos)

Login window apps: Joel Rennich’s NoMAD and Tim Perfitt’s XCreds

Photogrammetry

WebAuthN

Device Attestation currently

Osquery

Fleet device management

Munki

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Gold + Graphics Recording Sponsor

HP Anyware

Silver Sponsor

Fleet DM

Live Stream sponsor

SimpleMDM (PDQ)

Workshop helper sponsor

MacStadium

Mat X and JD are joined by Stuart, one of our speakers, and Arnold, an attendee, discussing their journey to attending the ninth annual MDOYVR Conference.

June 20 – Workshops and pre-conference social

June 21-22 – Two full days of talks and panels and the famous hallway track

Links:

MDOYVR 2023 conference schedule

Aftermath – Swift based open-source incident response framework

Beyond the good ol’ launch agents (Csba Fitzl)

Sarah Edwards – Laughing Apollo (MDOYVR 2019) |

Sarah Edward’s mac4n6 blog

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Gold + Graphics Recording Sponsor

HP Anyware

Silver Sponsor

Fleet DM

Live Stream sponsor

SimpleMDM (PDQ)

MacDevOps:YVR 2023 is weeks away. Join Mat X and JD as they discuss some of the highlights to the ninth annual MDOYVR Conference back in person in beautiful downtown Vancouver, B.C.

June 20 – Workshops and pre-conference social

June 21-22 – Two full days of talks and panels and the famous hallway track

MDOYVR 2023 conference schedule

As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4.

Apple knowledge article on SyncServices (Archive.org)

The polyglot software un-conference

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Gold + Graphics Recording Sponsor

HP Anyware

Silver Sponsor

Fleet DM

Live Stream sponsor

SimpleMDM (PDQ)

Seth Goldin,  IT engineer in Media and Entertainment, joins Mat X and to talk about building remote distributed workflows for video editing.

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Host: Mat X

Guest: Seth Goldin

Links:

MacDevOps:YVR Videos:

MDOYVR19 – Jasper Siegers – The Post Lab Story

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

Sharvil Shah, first time at speaker at MDO, and Zach CTO from Fleet DM join Mat X and to talk about security and the recent MacDevOps:YVR 2022 conference.

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Host: Mat X

Guests: Zach W and Sharvil Shah

Links:

Fleet DM (Device management)

MacDevOps:YVR Videos:

MDOYVR22 – Allister Banks – Threat Models Are Like Opinions

MDOYVR22 – Sharvil Shah – Open Source Visibility on Mac with Osquery and Endpoint Security Framework

MDOYVR22 – Prima Virani – Hosting FleetDM in EKS

MDOYVR22 – Csaba Fitzl -10 macOS Persistence Techniques

and

JD’s Podcast Year in Review

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

Arek Dreyer, Keynote speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD for the 100th episode to pour one out for Server.app, speaker advice, helping the community, and putting a long-running con(ference) together.

Conference:

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Support the Podcast:

Buy us a coffee  buymeacoff.ee/mdopod

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Arek Dreyer (Twitter), Senior Product Engineer at Kandji

Links:

Erase All Contents And Settings (Apple)

Apple Deployment Guide

Declarative Device Management (Apple)

XY Problem (Wikipedia)

OKTA Workflows

Beginner’s Mind (Shoshin)

Old UNIX email apps: PINE, ELM,

Books:

Managing Apple Devices (Arek Dreyer) – Amazon

Long list of Apple discontinued products:

Server.app (née MacOS X Server)

Final Cut Server (Final Cut Studio workflow automation and asset management)

Shake (image compositing sofware for VFX)

Xgrid (distributed computing cluster)

Xserve (rack mounted servers for render farms and computing clusters)

Xserve RAID (Fibre channel RAID for direct attached storage or Xsan storage area networks (SAN)

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)