A pragmatic approach to endpoint security The the past four and a half years I’ve worked on a rapidly expanding fleet, in a very fast moving environment. In that time, I’ve developed a pragmatic approach to security....

Installing Rosetta 2 on Apple Silicon Macs Our bootstap tool is written in Go, and as of the time I’m writing this, Go doesn’t support building for Apple Silicon Macs. As such, we need to ensure Rosetta 2 is installed...

Apple Silicon in Enterprise This weekend I was browsing LinkedIn and I saw an article linked to in Computerworld about how Apple’s new A14 chip would be amazing for enterprise. My initial reaction was...

Making friends with your security team First off, let’s talk about the elephant in the room: most endpoint engineers do not get on with their security team. You will often hear complaints like Our security team...

Managing macOS Profiles with Configuration Management in 2020 macOS 11 has brought two, small on their own, but significant changes to how we are able to manage macOS. Today we’ll talk about the first: Profiles. Background Back in macOS...

Go for endpoint management For Mac admins using Python to perform scripting duties, the impending departure of Python 2 from the default install of macOS should be encouraging them to look at...

My Perfect VS Code Setup The role of the traditional Systems Administrator is slowly but surely dying. Clicking on buttons in GUI’s is making way for configuration as code. As such, you text editor is...