Mac Admins Podcast

Family Device Control is a hot topic in the world, and we’ve never touched on it. Joining us this week is Collin Elliott to talk about how to manage your kids' devices, and handling co-parenting, as well as all sorts of ways to keep your devices in line.

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

Guests:

• Collin Elliott - LinkedIn

Links:

• ‘Came to Paris on a mission’: Saya Sakakibara claims gold in BMX racing
• Screen Time: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108806
• What is Family Sharing? https://support.apple.com/en-us/105062

• Android Family Link: https://safety.google/families/parental-supervision/
• Circle: https://meetcircle.com/
• UniFi Traffic Rules For Parental Controls (Example Use Cases)

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• 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 loves VPNs? Folks in the network security team, please put your hands down - we weren’t asking you... Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way that we could offer privacy and protection out there in that wretched hive of scum and villainy we call the internet? Wouldn’t it be even better if it was baked into the operating system so each vendor wasn’t just making things up as they go? Apple announced iCloud private relay in 2021, and in 2023 we got what I guess you could call the “Enterprise version” - Network Relays. Today we have Matt Vlasach here to talk about why Network Relays are awesome and how we can use them to make Apple devices more secure and useable

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

Guests:

• Matt Vlasach - LinkedIn

Links:

• MASQUE Protocol IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schinazi-masque-02.html
• WWDC 2023 - Protect App Traffic with Network Relays https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10002
• https://reg.jnuc.jamf.com/flow/jamf/jnuc2024/home24/page/jnuc24sessioncatalog
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/masque-building-a-new-protocol-into-cloudflare-warp/

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

Santa’s got new digs up at North Pole Security! Join us as we talk with Russell and Pete from North Pole about what Santa’s move means, how it’s developing in the future, and what’s coming next for this powerful Mac Security Tool.

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

Guests:

• Pete Markowsky , North Pole Security - LinkedIn
• Russell Hancox, North Pole Security - LinkedIn

Links:

• MacSysAdmin 2024 - Santa Past, Present, and Future - A Christmas Carol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyIcr1XoWs
• Google & Operation Aurora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
• https://github.com/northpolesec/santa
• https://northpolesec.com
• https://northpole.dev
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRl1yu5OEs

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

Software Updates is a subject that is dear to the heart of all Mac Admins. Traditionally this was a task that we could only perform after devices were enrolled. Beginning with macOS 14, Automated Device Enrollment began to support the requirement of a Minimum OS Version, which allows us to mandate that the device is updated before we allow it to enroll into our device management system. This week, we’ll talk with Bushrat Chowdhury of Jamf about the adaptation of this feature into the product.

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

Guests:

• Bushrat Chowdhury - LinkedIn

Links:

• Automated Device Enrolment and MDM – Apple Support (AU)
• What’s new in managing Apple devices - WWDC23 - Videos
• New Features and Enhancements - Jamf Pro Release Notes 11.9.0

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

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.

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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