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Jan 24, 2022

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.

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Jan 17, 2022

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.

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Jan 10, 2022

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Dec 13, 2021

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Dec 8, 2021

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.

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Nov 15, 2021

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

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  • Alcyr Araujo

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Oct 25, 2021

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  • Amy McKnight

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Oct 18, 2021

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...

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Oct 11, 2021

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.

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Oct 4, 2021

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.

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Sep 27, 2021

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Sep 20, 2021

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.

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  • Matt Woestehoff

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Sep 15, 2021

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

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Sep 13, 2021
The art of the security Red Team is a difficult one, and Cedric Owens joins us this week to talk about how it works, some of the tools of the trade, and how to go after macOS fleets.

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  • Cedric Owens

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Sep 7, 2021
Rich Siegel of Bare Bones returns to the Podcast to talk about BBEdit 14, Containers, the App Store writ large, and everything he’s excited about in Monterey. Annnnnd why “It wasn't just about the money”

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  • Rich Siegel, Head Honcho, Bare Bones Software

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Aug 30, 2021

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.

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  • Ella Hansen

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Aug 17, 2021

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

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

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  • Erika Noerenberg

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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
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Future Meetups
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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

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Aug 9, 2021

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!

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

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

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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

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Aug 2, 2021

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.

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  • Shrav Mehta, Secureframe

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