Episodes | MacDevOpsYVR

Ed Marczak joins Mat X and JD to explore whether the open source project Santa is naughty or nice. We discuss what is “corporate malware” and how IT and Security teams can do their best to empathise with and educate their users.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Ed Marczak. (Web) (Twitter)

Videos:

MDOYVR 2021 – Henry Stamerjohann – Useful techniques for a successful Santa deployment

MDOYVR 2018 – Matt Doyle – Santa Upvote

MDOYVR 2016 – Allister – Santa

MDOYVR 2017 – Ed Marczak – How to Fail

Links:

Santa project (GitHub)

Santa project documentation

Congrats ⁦@siracusa⁩ (working for yourself is the best!) — it was great to get your thoughts on tools for managing Macs, specifically on “corp malware” AKA Santa open source from Google. #macadmins Using these tools to manage Macs can be nice but it can be rough for users pic.twitter.com/nEDn8dHm9D

— mat x (@macvfx) April 2, 2022

Quote from ATP episode #476

John: "They added an app called Santa that would intercept app launches and tell you if the app was naughty or nice"

Marco: "That's creepy as hell"

John: "It was flagging everything"

MDO Socials

Please follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:

Catching Up with Shania

Published: 2022-04-05

Mat X and JD catch up with Shania about being on call, new laptop purchasing, dongles, lost devices, and more.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Shania, Mat X and JD

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference :

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

MDO Socials

Please follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:

Baez Cloud

Published: 2022-03-29

Felipe Baez joins MatX and JD to talk about setting up his own cloud and email server, thoughts on the new Mac Studio, and forecasting what might be in the new Mac Pro.

Trigger Warning: Discussion of running one’s own email server.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Felipe Baez (Twitter) (YouTube)

Links:

Upgrade from Google legacy edition

Steps for installing macFUSE

Reduced security on Apple Silicon (how to enable)

Dante – Audio Network

NDI – Video over IP

Audio Hijack – route audio (and record)

Final Cut Pro

Mac Studio

Videos:

MDOYVR conference time lapse video

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference :

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

MDO Socials

Please follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:

So Many Talks

Published: 2022-03-22

Join Mat X and JD in a planning session for the 2022 MacDevOps YVR Conference, where they discuss perks for speakers, calls for volunteers, and a movie night.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Videos:

MDOYVR 2016 – Osquery or it didn’t happen – Allister Banks

MDOYVR 2017 – Macnarok – Michael Lynn

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference :

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

MDO Socials

Please follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:

Log All The Data with Tom and Dan from Snowflake

Published: 2022-03-15

Co-hosts JD and Mat X talk with Tom and Dan from Snowflake about logging all the data. Everything! Osquery, FleetDM, and what do you do with 400TB of logs.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Tom and Dan (Twitter)

Lol we have 200 TB of osquery data

— Daniel (@Daniel_Infosec) February 18, 2022

Links:

Snowflake osquery Fleet magic (tlark GitHub blog post)

Snowflake Db (Twitter)

Snowflake #DataCloud

Osquery

FleetDM

Munki (open source macOS software management)

Gorilla (Munki for Windows)

Acronyms:

SCIM (System for cross-domain Identity Management)

RBAC (Role based access control)

FIM (Osquery File integrity monitoring)

ELK (Elastic Logstash Kibana)

Videos:

MDOYVR17 – Osquery and Streamalert – Sam Keeley

MDOYVR18 – QuickTalk – Henry Stamerjohann – How to get them SHAS

MDO Socials

Please follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:

Per Oloffson MunkiReport Quick Fix

Published: 2022-03-08

Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with MacAdmins legend Per Olofsson, aka Mager Valp, to discuss the recent MunkiReport quick fix and how open source is fun.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Per Olofsson (Mager Valp: Twitter / GitHub)

Links:

MunkiReport project (GitHub)

Videos:

MunkiReport and the story of Open Source (MDO YVR 2019)

MunkiReport workshop (MDO YVR 2020)

MunkiReport v6 demo (MDO YVR 2021)

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference :

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)