Mac Admins Podcast

Join Tom & Charles as they chat with Joel Rennich and Ben Toms at the 2023 MacAD.UK Conference in Brighton, England. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Joel Rennich Ben Toms Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Every organization has a set of norms they follow. Within those are processes that people go through routinely - and those aren’t often documented at new organizations (be they orgs within other orgs or new companies). There have been systems like Six Sigma for tracking those processes, but like how neurons know what paths to take - those are only one part of the brain. EOS is one of those business operating systems, like the OS of the brain, that is more comprehensive than just processes, but goes far deeper into an org. Today we’re speaking with Lucas Acosta from Foojee about EOS and how that has helped Foojee Hosts: Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom James Smith - @smithjw@mastodon.social Guests: Lucas Acosta - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: www.lucasacosta.com Lucas Acosta (@lucasaaron) / Twitter Assessments – Rocket Fuel University Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business (Audible Audio Edition) Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Audible Audio Edition): Gino Wickman, Kevin Pierce, Audible Studios: Books Ninety.io cloud-based tool to run EOS   Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Lingon has been a part of the MacAdmins toolkit for as long as recent memory caused us to make launch items. Sandkorn became useful around the same time that we had to start looking at application sandboxes. In today’s episode, we interview the person behind these: Peter Borg Hosts: Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Peter Borg Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Peter Borg Apps Placing Content in a Bundle | Apple Developer Documentation Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Rapid Security Response, the iMac turns 25, Apple financials, and… WWDC predictions! Hosts: Tom Bridge Charles Edge Emily Kausalik-Whittle Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/ Rapid Security Response on The IT Hour: The IT Hour | Rapid Security Response updates from Apple 5.5.23 https://scriptingosx.com/2023/05/weekly-news-summary-for-admins-2023-05-05/ https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2023/04/18/RSR.html Six Colors: https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/05/apple-q2-2023-results-94-8b-revenue-better-than-expected/ IBM Flying Cars Commercial https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/jamf-announces-ceo-transition-plan-appointing-john-strosahl-as-chief-executive-officer/ Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

MacAdmins have to manage all kinds of things. We talk a lot about settings and features when it comes to device management. But fonts are one of those things that can be important and in fact a security issue as well. For example, if a drug company uses the wrong font they could face massive penalties from regulators. Employees might send out materials with unlicensed fonts. In today’s episode we’ll talk about what’s involved in font management: how to get the right fonts on the right devices and build sustainable workflows so teams can have access to such an important aspect of computing. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Glenn Kowalski - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Chank Fonts! DfontSplitter « Peter Upfold Extensis Trajan (typeface) - Wikipedia Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

The world of open source MDMs continues to evolve. We’ve had guests on to talk about open source mdm tools in the past but this is one of those episode topics that should come back up routinely. Especially when we see larger scale operations. Today we’ll talk about how NanoMDM could be  used to build a dynamic and flexible event-based mdm platform. This type of system is broadly useful to multiple different types of orgs and can have great security benefits. Hosts: Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318 Guests: Ryan Diers, Security Engineer, Airbnb – @radsec Brandon Kurtz, Client Engineering, Airbnb – @discentem Links: MicroMDM · GitHub NanoMDM is a minimalist Apple MDM server heavily inspired by MicroMDM NanoDEP is a set of tools and a Go library powering them for communicating with Apple’s Device Enrollment Program (DEP) API servers. Videos – MacDevOpsYVR NanoMDM Sandbox MDMDirector https://radsec.net radsec (Ryan Diers) · GitHub discentem (BK) · GitHub Bk (@muffins222221) / Twitter Sponsors: With Alectrona Patch you can install and update over 300 Mac applications automatically to keep your users protected with the latest security updates. Alectrona is a proud Sponsor of the MacAdmins Podcast and MacAdmins Foundation. Check out Alectrona Patch at alectrona.com/patch to learn more and to book a demo with our team. Patreon Sponsors: The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include: Rick Goody, Mike Boylan, Melvin Vives, William (Bill) Stites, Anoush d’Orville, Jeffrey Compton, M.Marsh, Hamlin Krewson, Adam Burg, A.J. Potrebka, James Stracey, Timothy Perfitt, Nate Cinal, William O’Neal, Sebastian Nash, Command Control Power, Stephen Weinstein, Chad Swarthout, Daniel MacLaughlin, Justin Holt, William Smith, and Weldon Dodd Mac Admins Podcast Community Calendar, Sponsored by Watchman Monitoring Conferences Event Name Location Dates Format Cost XWorld Melbourne, AUS 30-31 March 2023 TBA TBA Upcoming Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost Sydney Mac Admins Level 6, 341 George St, Sydney 5:30pm 20th April 2023 Free MacAdminsUA MacPaw.Space April 19 at 19:00 Free Recurring Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost London Apple Admins Pub Online weekly (see #laa-pub in MacAdmins Slack for connection details), sometimes in-person Most Thursdays at 17:00 BST (UTC+1), 19:00 BST when in-person Free #ANZMac Channel Happy Hour Online (see #anzmac in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) Thursdays 5 p.m. AEST Free #cascadia Channel Happy Hour Online (see #cascadia channel in Mac Admins Slack) Thursdays 4 p.m. PT (US) Free Sponsor the Mac Admins Podcast: If you’re interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email sponsor@macadminspodcast.com for more information. Social Media: Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We’re @MacAdmPodcast!

Today, let’s talk about integrations. Most software companies these days want to be a “platform”. Part of that play is to build APIs, document them, and facilitate other companies building integrations as well. But many of us have unique workflows and so have to build our own. In this episode we’ll think about building our own integrations with various tools (e.g. LogicMonitor), and some things to consider when doing so. Hosts: Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318 Guests: Selina Ali, Product Manager, LogicMonitor – LinkedIn Links: LogicMonitor SDKs Using LogicMonitor’s REST API API Tokens | LogicMonitor https://developer.connectwise.com/ Bonus Question Links: Boat – Wikipedia History of email – Wikipedia Alpine Inn first email: The saga of Alpine Inn aka Zott’s over the years – InMenlo George Mallory – Wikipedia Antikythera mechanism – Wikipedia Pesse canoe – Wikipedia – oldest canoe afaik Is This 10,000-Year-Old Carving Europe’s Oldest Known Depiction of a Boat? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine – one of the oldest boat depictions Selina Ali – LinkedIn Listen Sponsors: With Alectrona Patch you can install and update over 300 Mac applications automatically to keep your users protected with the latest security updates. Alectrona is a proud Sponsor of the MacAdmins Podcast and MacAdmins Foundation. Check out Alectrona Patch at alectrona.com/patch to learn more and to book a demo with our team. Patreon Sponsors: The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include: Rick Goody, Mike Boylan, Melvin Vives, William (Bill) Stites, Anoush d’Orville, Jeffrey Compton, M.Marsh, Hamlin Krewson, Adam Burg, A.J. Potrebka, James Stracey, Timothy Perfitt, Nate Cinal, William O’Neal, Sebastian Nash, Command Control Power, Stephen Weinstein, Chad Swarthout, Daniel MacLaughlin, Justin Holt, William Smith, and Weldon Dodd Mac Admins Podcast Community Calendar, Sponsored by Watchman Monitoring Conferences Event Name Location Dates Format Cost XWorld Melbourne, AUS 30-31 March 2023 TBA TBA Upcoming Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost Sydney Mac Admins Level 6, 341 George St, Sydney 5:30pm 20th April 2023 Free MacAdminsUA MacPaw.Space April 19 at 19:00 Free Recurring Meetups Event Name Location Dates Cost London Apple Admins Pub Online weekly (see #laa-pub in MacAdmins Slack for connection details), sometimes in-person Most Thursdays at 17:00 BST (UTC+1), 19:00 BST when in-person Free #ANZMac Channel Happy Hour Online (see #anzmac in MacAdmins Slack for connection details) Thursdays 5 p.m. AEST Free #cascadia Channel Happy Hour Online (see #cascadia channel in Mac Admins Slack) Thursdays 4 p.m. PT (US) Free Sponsor the Mac Admins Podcast: If you’re interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email sponsor@macadminspodcast.com for more information. Social Media: Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We’re @MacAdmPodcast!  

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.” - Plato There are so many different ways to learn about the MacAdmin field. One that we haven’t covered on the pod is the Lynda.com (now LinkedIn) courses that date back to the era of Mac OS X Server. Today, we’ll hear from its creator Sean Collins about his courses, how the industry has evolved, how being considered an industry “expert” helps with building consulting business, and even a little about his upcoming book called “Technically Fit”. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Sean Colins - @sean_m_colins Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Sean Colins (@sean_m_colins) • Instagram photos and videos Sean Colins - President - Creative Technology Management | LinkedIn https://www.facebook.com/seancolins https://www.technically-fit.com https://www.seancolins.com Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Alectrona Patch Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Configuring new devices with Automated Device Enrollment can be a thoroughly magical experience for the end user receiving their machine, but Apple doesn’t have the entire flow programmed in such a way that it’s obvious to the end user what’s happening. Baseline is a new open-source way to handle some of that messaging, and we’re here today to talk with Rob and Trevor from Second Son Consulting in LA about their development efforts. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Trevor Sysock - @BigMacAdmin@masto.ai Rob Calvert - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Second Son Consulting, Inc. Baseline - GitHub Repo Baseline - Wiki Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Join us today for a live panel episode from the X World conference in Melbourne, Australia Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom James Smith - @james@smithjw.me Guests: Tony Gray  James Corcoran Jon Rhoades Merill Fernando Bart Reardon Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: X World Sessions Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Packaging every version of each piece of software managed can be incredibly time consuming. Without automation, it would take an inordinate amount of time to download, package, test, and deploy software at a cadence that matches how often third party vendors patch their tools. Autopkg can be one of the biggest time savers for those charged with managing Apple devices. We’ve discussed it in previous episodes but in this episode we’ll talk to Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra about her studies of autopkg at a more academic level. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Manuela Muñoz Bocanegra - LinkedIn Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant): Gibson, William: 9780425198681: Amazon.com: Books GitHub - grahampugh/jamf-upload: Scripts for uploading packages to Jamf Cloud GitHub - autopkg/autopkg: Automating packaging and software distribution on macOS. Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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

HomeKit and the Home app. There are many like it, but this is the kit (no pun intended) that Apple has vetted for automating the home. This ecosystem of products is the culmination of decades of R&D by the home automation industry, made simple - or simple(ish) by Apple. Yet it doesn’t always work as it says on the tin. In this episode we’ll have a panel with Bob Gendler, Steve Yuroff, and Tim Pearson to talk through what we like, what we don’t, and everything in between! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Tim Pearson Bob Gendler Steve Yuroff Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Clipsal C-Bus - Wikipedia Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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

We love APIs. It tells us a little about products and a lot about how various vendors feel about structured automation. In today’s episode we’ll chat about the FileWave API - what can be done, what can’t - and of course, some cool uses in a new age of AI for everything! Our guest is Josh Levitsky, Global Head of Pro Services at FileWave, who gets to tinker with the FileWave APIs often. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Josh Levitsky - @jlevitsk Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: Carmina Burana - 'In Taberna Quando Sumus' - Carl Orff Bulk Update the Enrollment User (auth_username) using API JumpCloud Restart an MDM Device with Kext Paths: JumpCloud API - 2.0 AlmaLinux OS Use the winget tool to install and manage applications | Microsoft Learn Charles’ Similarity script to find GPT-3 and GPT-J sources Forums - FileWave Alliance  - Web Forum FileWave Discord Server  - Discord Server Josh Levitsky: josh.levitsky@filewave.com / https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlevitsk  FileWave Product Management - Knowledge Base - FileWave Knowledge Base (atlassian.net) Script to Bulk Update auth/enrollment username and client name from CSV - Knowledge Base - FileWave Knowledge Base (atlassian.net) Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

There’s always news. So we’ll talk about that for a hot minute. We’ll also talk about how to get the most from products that, well, don’t do everything you want them to do. Or at least the ones that don’t do what you want… yet… In other words, let’s chat about how you convince product managers to build what you need. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: X World Sessions – 2023 – AUC Objective by the Sea Automaton 2 Update (Feb 8, 2023) – Twocanoes Software MacSysAdmin MacAD.UK MacAdmins Conference Automaton 2 – Twocanoes Store What is yak shaving? Marty Coffey - Celebrity Speakers Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Apple’s version of passkeys are the latest piece of a sprawling identity picture for the Apple platform that isn’t widely supported just yet - which is a perfect time to start learning about it.  Passkeys aren’t just Apple; they’re supported on Mac, Windows, Android, and even in our browsers. This evolution in WebAuthn's capabilities means we don’t need physical tokens (although that’s still an option) to have a second factor in auth flows - nor is that other factor tied to a phone number, making it more secure. But for admins, there are plenty of questions we need to figure out. What do we have instead of a username and what is there in lieu of a password? As we develop solutions that work with webauthn, we often use a reference implementation at webauthn.io to test functionality. Our guest today is one of the people behind that site, Matt Miller. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Matthew Miller - @iamkale@infosec.exchange Transcript: Click here to read the transcript (brought to you this week by Alectrona) Links: WebAuthn Debugger Project to paste in JSON versions of responses for WebAuthn calls and see their internals: SimpleWebAuthn Chrome extension project to view navigator.credentials endpoints and (if the most recent code checks clean and gets committed in time) paste in JSON versions of responses for WebAuthn calls and see their internals: WebAuthn Inspector Standards body definitions for WebAuthn: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials - Level 2 Matt Miller’s Blog - Matt's Headroom SimpleWebAuthn Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Alectrona Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

We have these computers. And they are truly bastion hosts. Nothing comes in, and only that with which we want goes out. They’re perfect when we finish setting them up. Then people make changes and put apps on there. The changes we can mitigate, the apps require a little more analysis. A common strategy to manage that risk is to employ a reputation-based access such as dictated by zero trust - another is to test apps for vulnerabilities, which in a way feeds back into the zero trust decision mechanism in the end. But what kind of tests can be effective, especially since those compiled runtimes don’t tell us a lot about what’s going on. We’ll chat about this paradigm with today’s guest Niels Hofmans, and look for ways to fill up that task list for 2023! Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Niels Hofmans - @hazcod Transcript: Transcription of this episode brought to you by Alectrona Click here to read the transcript Links: Intigriti  Niels’ GitHub OWASP Foundation OWASP Mobile Application Security CodeQL NVD Belgian Beer Waffles Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

Spring is coming, and with it, MacADUK’s return to Brighton, England for this year’s first European Mac Admin Conference. We’re talking with two of the organizing committee, Alex Hawes and James Ridsdale about this year’s conference, what attendees can expect, and what’s important to them in a Mac Admins Conference. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 CHarles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Alex Hawes - @alexdthawes James Ridsdale - @james_ridsdale Transcript: Click here to read the transcript Links: 2023 Speakers – Mac SysAdmin & Developer Conference – MacAD.UK Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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  

According to a recent PDQ survey, 85% of people who manage devices are a team of 1. Many of our guests have a small scope to their job: they manage Macs and/or iPhones. But many in IT manage, well, everything. That means being a jack of many traits: knowing just enough about networking, switches, routers, every piece of software used in an organization, budgeting, or whatever is on the docket at the moment. Today we’re going to cover what it’s like to cover such breadth with Ylan.  Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom Guests: Ylan Muller - @HeyItsYlan Transcript: Click here to read the transcript Sponsors: Kandji Kolide dataJAR Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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

It’s just us again, and that means we’re talking about everything going on right now. Layoffs, new hardware, Ventura and Deferrals, and then Passkeys, Hardware Tokens and Apple IDs, and more. Hosts: Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777 Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318 Marcus Ransom, Senior Sales Engineer, Jamf – @marcusransom Links: What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch – Tech Specs – Apple Mac mini – Technical Specifications – Apple HomePod – Apple Kensington Locking Kit for Mac Studio – Apple Sponsors: Patreon Sponsors: The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include: Rick Goody, Mike Boylan, Melvin Vives, William (Bill) Stites, Anoush d’Orville, Jeffrey Compton, M.Marsh, Hamlin Krewson, Adam Burg, A.J. Potrebka, James Stracey, Timothy Perfitt, Nate Cinal, William O’Neal, Sebastian Nash, Command Control Power, Stephen Weinstein, Chad Swarthout, Daniel MacLaughlin, Justin Holt, William Smith, and Weldon Dodd Mac Admins Podcast Community Calendar, Sponsored by Watchman Monitoring

We’ve wanted to have an episode with MacPaw since far before Ukraine was invaded on February 24th, 2022. Then we pushed it back over and over out of respect for everything going on. But we’re super-excited to finally have someone on the podcast  to talk about what it was like to go through an invasion, the technical infrastructure, tooling, emotional toll, and how they still managed to get work done 11 months into a war. We welcome Vira Tkachenko to the pod to take us through her journey. Hosts: Tom Bridge - @tbridge777 Charles Edge - @cedge318 Guests: Vira Tkachenko - @iVira Transcript: Click here to read the transcript Links: MacPaw Foundation About MacPaw MacPaw’s Operations amidst the Russian Aggression against Ukraine Ukraine's MacPaw releases SpyBuster, designed to beat Russian hacks | AppleInsider MacPaw Inc. · GitHub How Ukraine’s MacPaw got its business ready for war | Computerworld Sponsors: Kandji Kolide Watchman Monitoring If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include 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