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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