One aspect of device management that we love to dig into is what’s going on under the hood. We’ve interviewed a couple of people involved in the MicroMDM project in the past but today we wanted to talk to a newcomer to better understand what the process was like to get started with MicroMDM. And what contributing code to the project ended up looking like. Turns out the team is much nicer than we’d heard! Just kidding, we always knew they were nice.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Kory Prince - @korylprince

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The life of a Mac Admin isn’t just about Macs. Those are often the easy part. Instead we spend a lot of time figuring out how to make the Mac exist in the ecosystem of other tools we have in our environments. Today's episode will follow Tiffany Woods in her journey to become a Mac Admin. We’ll get an update about tools like NoMAD and look to the next year to try and figure out what challenges await us all in the coming months.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Tiffany Woods

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Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Cat Self - @coolestcatiknow

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Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Brock Walters

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A year after Kolide released Honest Security, the issues that were covered in the manifesto remain, but how have they made it to the market? Much of this story can be told through the eyes of Harlie Hardage, a senior security specialist at 1Password who helped bring Kolide to the company in 2021. Having found the values of Honest Security were so well aligned with the strict values at 1Password (autonomy, responsibility, and kindness), it was an easy decision to make.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Jason Meller - @jmeller
• Harlie Hardage - @ItsMeHarlieD

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Alcyr from Mosyle is back again to discuss Security & Privacy and how they are utilising Encrypted DNS with customers.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777

Guests:

• Alcyr Araujo

Links:

• https://mosyle.com
• Movember 2021
• Movember Donate

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Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Amy McKnight

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Erin Merchant is back again to discuss what’s happened in the last year. How can you make time for yourself? What is it like to work at a hyper-growth startup? How can you handle the necessary internal conflicts that generates, and what's next...

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Erin Merchant - @daftplague

Links:

• Say Goodbye to Your Manager
• Burning out and quitting
• Classes, Levels, And Equipment For The RPG We Call A Startup
• Jody Rogers “Becoming Crucial”
• https://twitter.com/HansFiene/status/1444636190792167435/photo/1

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Black Hat comes around every year and we sometimes end up having to respond quickly, like making sure we’ve patched all the things! Today we’re joined by Luke Roberts and Calum Hall who presented research on bending the mdmclient and custom agents to their will in order to see how an attacker might go after Apple devices.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Luke Roberts - @rookuu_
• Calum Hall - @_calumhall

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With Conferences coming back -- albeit mostly virtual! -- it’s time to talk about what folks are excited for as we head into the season. There’s three big conferences underway in October, from OBTS in Hawaii in person, to MacSysAdmin virtually in Sweden, and JNUC, virtually in Minneapolis.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge777
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @emilyooo
• James Smith - @smithjw

Guests:

• Greg Neagle - @gregneagle
• Joel Rennich - @mactroll
• Ed Marczak - @marczak

Links:

• https://www.loom.com
• https://reincubate.com/camo/
• https://obsproject.com
• https://www.veed.io
• https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/110/
• https://otter.ai/
• https://www.macsysadmin.se
• https://mdoyvr.com
• https://macdeployment.ca 
• https://macadmins.psu.edu
• https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2021/
• https://authenticatecon.com/event/authenticate-2021-conference/

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Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Tony Williams - @honestpuck

Links:

• PatchBot
• Scriptorium
• Microbee

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Matt Woestehoff joins the pod to talk about the changing face of remote work, from big organizations to small ones. What’s accelerating, what’s slowing, and what technologies are we looking for in a new world.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Matt Woestehoff

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Apple’s Fall Event brought new iPads, iPhones and Apple Watches! Let’s tear it all down, shall we?

Hosts:

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

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Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Cedric Owens

Links:

• Gone Apple Pickin: Red Teaming MacOS Environments in 2021
• Bloodhound
• Machound 
• Introducing Machound 
• Persistent JXA
• Cody Thomas’ talk on Bifrost at OBTS
• Apple bug bounty
• Mythic
• Mischa van de Bent macOS Security Compliance - CIS Baseline
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Hosts:

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

• Rich Siegel, Head Honcho, Bare Bones Software

Links:

• Microsoft Language Server Protocol
• Bash LSP
• Rich’s Electron Thread
• Fizzbuzz Enterprise Edition
• Dan’s Tweet
• Kitchen Aid Mixers

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One of the best things you can do to boost productivity and save yourself time is automate tasks. (For example, we love moving workflows into Slack.) In this episode Tom, Marcus, and Charles interview Ella Hansen of IgnitionIT and discuss stringing together workflows using tools like Slack and Google Apps Script to help make real humans more productive. It’s a pretty awesome thing to do.

Hosts:

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

Guests:

• Ella Hansen

Links:

• Ella on Githubs
• Ignition IT
• Change Enrollment User on WS1
• Google Apps Script
• Configure apps with manifests

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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

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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

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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/

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