Patrik Jerneheim - MacSysAdmin Hello and welcome to the MacSysAdmin Online 2020 Conference. Get the latest on the hows and whats around the when and wheres of this online event.Please join us for a short session about what to expect from the 2020 MacSysAdmin Online Conference.
2020Greg Neagle - Walt Disney Animation Studios Mac sysadmins have used Python for important tasks on macOS for many years. But the continuing evolution of both Python and macOS might cause you to need to make some tough decisions. Greg will outline some of the issues, and offer some recommendations on how to adapt to the one constant in our field: change.
2013Nurani Nimpuno You use it every day. Rely upon it for your business and social life. Take it for granted just like electricity and tap water. But how much do you really know about the Internet? Who owns it? Who runs it? Is it a democratic institution?We asked Nurani Nimpuno, Head of Outreach & Communications at Netnod, to bring us clarity.
2020Armin Briegel - scriptingosx.com We will dive into the details of Installomator – a script I wrote and published on GitHub earlier this year. We will look at “real” code from Installomator and explain the motivation and choices that went into it. From this, we will explore some strategies and tricks to make your shell script code safer, more concise, and more readable.
2020Andrina Kelly - Jamf We’ve all spent a lot of time taking a look at a wide variety of charts and graphs this year, trying to understand what the data means to us, how does it impact us, and what should we be doing based on what we’ve learnt from that data. We'll take a look at data, what makes it useful, and how we can make data work for us in a way that gives us insights.
2020Mathijs de Ruiter - Fondo This session is all about ways to automate your asset management by using webhooks. A lot of organizations want to have their asset tags in MDM. By using webhooks and some API magic we can make this process event driven so we don't have to bother the user. As a bonus we will look at ways to replace physical asset labels.
2012Paul Suh In modern computing and networking digital certificates are fundamental to a lot of security functions. If you want to use VPN or 802.1X there is a big chance you won't make it without certificates. When using a MDM solution such as Apple's Profile Manager you definitely have to use certificates.In this session we'll look at PKI, how certificates work, where they are used and stored in both iOS and Mac OS, how to push them to those devices, how to make self-assigned certificates and how to acquire certificates from an organizational or public Certificate Authority.
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Björn Willemsen (NL) Lars Carlestam (SE)
2019Kim Burton - Duo Security Security awareness is an important skill for any team: a security educated company protects its customers, the employees protect the business, and they take that knowledge home to protect their communities. But how do you encourage and enable that awareness? This talk will explore the creation of a positive security culture and the development of a security education program, no matter the size of your team or resources. Using Duo Security’s program as an example, the audience will also become familiar with ideas and methods that have been successful at Duo, in the hope that in sharing our practices more teams can confidently work towards developing their team’s security knowledge.
2016Jonathan Levin A history of OS X hacks. Jonathan will give a detailed explanation of past vulnerabilities in OS X - against which no security product would help. How is it that hackers can infiltrate a system, without directly knowing or even needing the root password? Details of actual past hacks, with examples, will be provided. Join Jonathan in this session where we learn from the past to secure the future.
2020 Allen Golbig - NASA Glenn Research Center Bob Gendler - NIST Natl Inst of Standards & Technology Dan Brodjieski - Defense Information Systems Agency The macOS Security Compliance Project is an open source effort that can be used to create customized security baselines of technical security controls, which are mapped to various compliance frameworks.Mac Admins will learn more about the macOS Security Compliance Project and how they can leverage the project to build their own security compliance guidance.
2020Tim Standing - Other World Computing Rick Rockhold - Other World Computing Join us for a tech session with our sponsor OWC.
2020Greg Neagle - Walt Disney Animation Studios After nearly twenty years seemingly stuck on version 10, macOS finally goes to version 11. Or has it? Come learn about the dual personality of macOS Big Sur and how it might affect you as a Mac sysadmin.
2020Patrick Wardle - Objective See - Jamf Unlike years ago, modern malware rarely possesses true viral capabilities. But alas, 2020 is full of (unfortunate) surprises! This talk will provide a comprehensive analysis of a recent macOS threat named EvilQuest. Though initially thought to be a rather mundane piece of ransomware, further analysis revealed something far more powerful and insidious. So listen in, as we detail its infection vector, persistence mechanism, and anti-analysis logic, as well as its (surprising) viral capabilities, file exfiltration logic, remote tasking capabilities, and ransomware logic. We'll wrap up the talk by discussing IoCs and (generic) behavior-based detection approaches.
2016Marko Jung Marko looks into how they did a full certificate authorization 802.1X EAP-TLS based Wi-Fi based on Windows AD, Casper and a Aruba wireless NAC at the University of Oxford.
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Anthony Reimer (CA) Jonathan Blows (UK)
2020Joel Rennich - Jamf It’s been a year… and if you’ve not been paying attention, which after everything that’s happened in 2020 who can blame you…, and we’re starting to finally see signs of life with Single Sign-On Extensions for both iOS and macOS! In this session we’ll do a quick review of what we covered last year, although you’re probably better off watching that session if you want a full dive and let’s face it… you’re probably out of TV shows to stream anyway.
2019Kevin M. White When your users experience a properly configured macOS system courtesy of automatic device enrollment (formerly DEP), it can feel like magic! However, every good magician knows it takes a lot of planning, testing, and refining to make a magic trick work smoothly every time. Repeated testing of your automatic enrollment workflows is necessary both during your initial rollout and as software changes and updates throughout your deployment lifecycle. In this session you will learn methods to iterate your automatic enrollment testing as quickly as possible. Techniques covered in this session include testing automatic enrollment for both virtual and real macOS computers.
2020Ed Marzcak - Duo Security Wireguard is a modern VPN that is secure and fast. Its minimal profile has been adopted into the Linux kernel. Even better: for Apple people, there are official Wireguard clients for iOS and Macintosh platforms. Come along on this journey to setup a Wireguard server for your home or small business on a Raspberry Pi: a low-cost computer capable of running Linux. Combined with an ad-blocking DNS server, your clients can be protected wherever they roam, access devices on your home network, and use services that require traffic to originate from your home location. Once you have the basics down, you can expand to crypto-routing your way across multiple sites, and automate installations. With on-demand access, and split-tunnel routing, you can keep your staff (or family) with access to everything they need, while dropping traffic from unauthorized devices.
2020 Dave Hornby - Jamf Kelli Conlin - Jamf Matt Woodruff - Jamf Join this session to understand the setup, the configuration, and the deployment of Jamf Protect. Learn about how different plans and behavioural analytics can be finely tuned to assess for different types of threats depending on the area of the business devices are deployed to. Following on from that, what happens when a threat is discovered? Well we need incident assessment and response!Learn how to integrate Jamf Protect with Jamf Pro and create custom remediation steps based on the level of threat. Need further information? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with a look in to specific SIEM integration, as well as the creation of Unified Log filters to gain even more insight into events occurring within your macOS estate.
2016Andrina Kelly Diana Birsan You’re looking at this great new tool that promises to solve an issue for you, but wouldn’t it be great if it tied into your existing infrastructure? All the right buzz words are there, API, SDK, REST, SOAP - but how do they work and when should you use them? We’ll get applications talking to each other and even build a custom tool to show how to tie into these handy frameworks.
2020Andrew Robinson - Hofstede Insights Japan Looking at our technology tools through the lens of culture. Culture, especially national culture, has a deep impact on how we see the world, interact with the people around us and the tools we make, deploy and use in our jobs. In today’s increasingly diverse workplace, the need to work better together is important.In this presentation we will review a framework by which we can compare and evaluate culture, with an emphasis on technology work and those tools we use — impacting our meetings, projects, onboarding & service desk tasks, and working on multicultural teams.
2011Rick Wylie As you read this, the world is close to running out of public IP addresses, if it hasn't already done so! So why do we care? Well apart from the fact that TCP/IP is the protocol that runs the Internet and most of the things we do, and will do, the current implementation IPv4, is running out if steam and has to be replaced by IPv6 to support the ever-growing Internet and general network expansion.
As systems administrators we are constantly challenged with change to make sure our systems do not pass into obselensense. This is true for IPv6, and a number of other emerging interconnectivity technologies that need to be considered for the future.
Ricks session will discuss the concepts, strategies and challenges in the "Apple-world" we will need to address as the worlds networks migrate to the IPv6. The session will also discuss the importance of other disk and network based interconnection technologies.
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Andi Hürzeler (CH) Laurent Pertois (FR)
2020Duncan McCracken - Mondada One of the most important questions an IT professional has to ask themselves on an ongoing basis. “Technology changes quickly, people don’t” - Joe Cox, former Apple SE (Melbourne). Our jobs are not what they were 10 years ago and additionally this year has come with many challenges that are unrelated to technology, which is causing us to change the way we do everything. Duncan is going to review his last 10 years of MacSysAdmin presentations, to figure out what is still useful and what isn’t in an attempt to answer this question.
2020Charles Edge - Jamf APIs make the world go 'round these days. The Application Programming Interface (or API) is a set of functions made available to access features of operating systems and services like web services. In this session, we’ll look at the various components of an API, types of APIs, a tad bit on how they came to be and their history on the Apple platform.We’ll send some commands to a few different APIs, look at the results, and help you get started on your path to connect all the different tubes that the Internets, our favorite apps, and our operating systems are built on!
2016Emily Kausalik-Whittle In his seminal text The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman points out that “good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs t our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself.”All interactions are designed, some better than others. How can design thinking, or adopting a user-centered approach, bene t the devices and people we support as Mac Admins?In this session we’ll discuss key concepts in design thinking as it applies to managing and deploying devices, applications, features, and tools to our customers, as well as a few examples of how “good” design and “bad” design can impact the relationships we form with our customers and the relationships our customers form with their devices.
2020Greg Neagle - Walt Disney Animation Studios In this quick session, Greg will highlight recent changes to Munki, the popular open-source software management tool for macOS, and preview some upcoming changes as well.
2020Tim Standing - Other World Computing Prepare for a deep dive into the world of bits and bytes.
2018Rich Trouton With macOS Server on its way out, many are moving their Mac and iOS support services out to cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn how to get started with AWS and how you can use Amazon to provide robust highly available services for your Mac and iOS users without having to build it all yourself.
2012Rick Wylie In a follow on from last year’s IPv6 session, Rick will discuss strategies for a successful IPv6 upgrade and migration for organisations.
The session will cover setting up IPv6 tunnels as well as native environment configuration and look at tools and hardware suitable for IPV6 support.
The session will cover a number of hands on examples that will allow attendees to gain insight into IPv6 and its configuration and successful implementation.
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