Mac Admins Podcast
A rotating panel of Mac admins and consultants are joined by members of the Mac admin community to discuss the latest news, issues, and challenges of managing Apple devices. New episodes weekly. Join the community at macadmins.org.
Episodes
Tim Perfitt is back to talk about animal husbandry and the best new features that are in XCreds 4.0!
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Tim Perfitt - LinkedIn
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Most of us will have seen or heard about Fletcher Previn’s presentation at JNUC 2023 around the employee choice program at Cisco, and how the numbers stack up for offering the mac. This presentation, and Fletcher’s previous presentations for IBM were described from the perspective of the executives and decision makers, and you our dear listeners will be all too aware that implementing a successful pr...
In this episode we meet Kim Trojanowski and hear a little about her experience with SupportApp and finding and working with new tools.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
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Kim Trojanowski - LinkedIn
Links:
- SupportApp - https://github.com/root3nl/SupportApp
Being a solo admin is great! So is going to a larger team, where the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. We interview Jordan Burnette about such a transition in today’s episode.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Jordan Burnette - LinkedIn
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The team from Workbrew joins us this week to discuss the challenges MacAdmins face with Homebrew at their companies. We discuss ways to cut down on IT busywork while also getting ahead with your engineering and security teams with an uncompromising approach to engineering productivity and security posture. Along the way we’ll touch upon maintaining the Homebrew Open Source Project and their approach ...
When polled, one of the most requested guests was one we’ve had on before, Arek Dreyer. So rather than tell Arek, what we wanted to talk about, we thought we’d hit him up for what he wanted to talk about!
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
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...Keychain is one of the best password managers on the market - especially for the money. In this episode, we chat with Cody Thomas about his research into Keychain security, where he was able to find some successes in red teaming, and where his attempts were thwarted!
Hosts:
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Cody Thomas - LinkedIn
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MacAD returns to Brighton in May of 2024! We’re excited to welcome members of the organizing committee, Maxine & Liam join the podcast to talk about this year’s conference, what attendees can expect, and why you should be booking your trip.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Maxine Davenport - ...
Admins face challenges with their own vaults of secrets. How do we secure/share secrets like passwords, but also those that aren’t, like SSH keys, certs, or passkeys? And what about mass deployments and IdP integrations?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Blake Brandon - LinkedIn
Links:
- 1Password: https://1password.com/ ...
Bravas is a new offering based out of the EU, focused on the small business market. Identity and Device Management together, they’re trying something new for the SMB market.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
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Yoann Gini - LinkedIn
Links:
- Bravas - https://www.bravas.io/en/
The world is a collection of not-yet-interconnected endpoints. Today, we’re going to talk to Shyam Bhojwani, Director, Business Technology & Cybersecurity on one of the ways to connect those endpoints!
Hosts:
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Shyam Bhojwani - LinkedIn
Links:
New tech comes and goes faster than ever. In today’s episode we’ll look at evaluating when it’s time to come to users with plans and/or products to help them either embrace or hold off on it, with Andrew Robinson.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
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Andrew Robinson - LinkedIn
Links:
- Read more
Aftermath is a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework. We’re here with the main contributors to the project to talk about incident response, security life on macOS in late 2023, and using good tools to help make security better.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
- Stuart Ashenbrenner - LinkedIn
A review of the year that was! 2023 was monumental in so many ways – a huge WWDC, great new hardware, a ton of new management concepts – and 2024 is full of promise. Tom, Charles, Marcus, and Emily take us through the highlights, and have a few predictions for what 2024 will bring.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318 Read more
Dan Snelson has been in the Apple admin community for a long time and builds lots of great tools to help others. Join us this week to celebrate and learn more about his contributions!
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Dan K. Snelson - Blog
Links:
- Read more
Authentication is a big challenge for any organization - how do you decide who gets into what resource, with what security mechanism, and from what device?
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
- Joel Rennich - LinkedIn Read more
The Apple Platform Deployment Guide is one of the most impressive and important documents that Apple updates about device management with Apple Devices. This week, we’ll be talking about all the updates with returning guest and friend of the podcast Kevin M. White!
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
Guests:
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Kevin M White - LinkedIn
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Shortcuts aren’t just a little Applescript goodness that can be used to make droplets. Although you could do that. Shortcuts can be used to perform fairly complex atomic operations. In this session we’ll look at some of the work Damian Cavanagh has posted to his Github, and the crazy lengths he went to in order to have Shortcuts that work with device management options.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- ...
After thwarting Russian attackers since well before the invasion, the team at MacPaw in Ukraine has a keen eye on emerging security threats. Today's episode is about their new cybersecurity division called Moonlock.
Hosts:
- Charles Edge - @cedge318
Guests:
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Oleg Stukalenko - LinkedIn
Links:
- https://moonlock.com/macos-sonoma-security-and-privacy
- https://moonlock.com/mac-security-survey-2023
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