Mac Admins Podcast

Lets look back on 2024 and remember the year that was. There will be lots of laughing, maybe some eye rolling. Probably also some tears.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• James Smith - LinkedIn

Links:

• Management profile settings and OS upgrade implications | Der Flounder
• Episode 359: Mac@Cisco – A Mac Admins Perspective
• Episode 362: ACES Conference with Justin Esgar
• Episode 370: Jedda Wignall on Managed Device Attestation
• Best Practices for Deploying Platform SSO with Microsoft Entra ID–Michael Epping, Mark Morowczynski

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

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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

Who doesn’t like a nice round number? Much like watching the odometer on the car tick over, we decided to make something special of episode 400, even if it technically might be the 410th episode we recorded... Please allow us to indulge ourselves by having a look back on the almost nine years we have been doing this. We are so humbled y’all are still here!

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Emily Kausalik-Whittle - @smashism

Links:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataman
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_FX-702P
• https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/50041/A%20Computer%20Adventure%20Game:%20Island%20of%20Secrets/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• iMazing
• Smallstep
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] for more information.

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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 team at Workbrew has been focused on getting into full production, and they’ve gotten a huge head of steam going in 2024. They’re with us today to talk about SBOMs - Software Bill of Materials - and security in your work environments. Patching remains a really integral part of doing Mac Admin work right, and this critical concept is one we’re going deep on.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• John Britton, Workbrew - LinkedIn
• Mike McQuaid, Workbrew - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.cisa.gov/sbom
• https://workbrew.com/macadmins
• PSU MacAdmins workbrew sessions (Marcus to add)
  • https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-psu-2024-session-homebrew-balancing-the-needs-of-it-security-and-engineering-teams-at-scale
  • https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-conference-2024-session-workbrew-a-deep-dive-into-the-enterprise-software-delivery-platform
• pcpartpicker.com
  • https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mikemcquaid/saved/#view=7gjtWZ Mike’s PC :D
• https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/main/Brewfile Mike’s Brewfile
• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle Homebrew Bundle/Brewfiles

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• iMazing
• Smallstep
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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

India doesn’t just have the largest population of any country in the world, it also has a thriving community of Mac Admins who are becoming more and more visible as time goes by. In addition to the popular MacAdmins India, with monthly hangouts and other events, this year we are excited to hear about the upcoming Mac Admins India conference. Karthik and Shyam join us to talk about their experiences being part of organising this community as well as what they have planned for the conference.

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Shyam Sundar, Service Manager, Novo Nordisk - LinkedIn
• Karthikeyan Marappan, macOS Specialist, European Bioinformatics Institute - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.macadmins.in
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/bewithkarthi/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyam-sundar-m9490/
• [email protected]

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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

Death, taxes and software updates... We deal with a constant stream of updates: Minor, major, N, N-1, N-2. Why do we even have updates? Because software inherently sucks and bad people find ways to exploit the vulnerabilities that they find, or is it that good people find them and disclose them before the bad people get a chance to use them... If simply applying these software updates wasn’t hard enough, we also need to understand what devices are eligible for which updates, and may have auditing responsibilities to make decisions as to why and how quickly we need to apply them. SOFA is an open source tool that MacAdmins can use to help with automation, documentation and many other aspects associated with keeping our bloody software up to date

• Tom Bridge - @[email protected]
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• Henry Stamerjohann, Co-founder, Zentral - LinkedIn
• Graham Pugh, Senior Systems Engineer, Jamf - LinkedIn
• Allister Banks, Citizen of Earth - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://github.com/macadmins/sofa
• https://sofa.macadmins.io
• https://github.com/bartreardon/swiftDialog-scripts/tree/main/Update%20Notifications
• https://eclecticlight.co/lockrattler-systhist/
• https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
• https://docs.vulncheck.com/community/nist-nvd/introduction
• https://grahamrpugh.com/2023/12/06/xprotect-version-check.html
• https://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2024/05/03/investigating-unpatched-cves-with-osquery-and-sofa/
• https://github.com/macadmins/nudge
• https://github.com/macadmins/osquery-extension

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email [email protected] 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