Jamf After Dark

Welcome to a special episode of Jamf After Dark showcasing a recent discussion recorded by IDC India.  Discover how Jamf is revolutionising Apple enterprise IT in India in this exclusive conversation.  Featuring insights from Liz Benz - Chief Sales Officer, Jamf, Ben Oxnam - Senior VP and GM, EMEIA, Jamf, and Chiranjeev TK - Country Head, Jamf India, this dialogue explores the evolving landscape of enterprise device management, security, and Apple adoption across Indian businesses. Learn how Jamf is enabling organizations to: Seamlessly manage Apple devices at scale Strengthen endpoint security with Zero Trust principles Empower IT teams for a modern, mobile-first workforce Navigate the unique challenges and opportunities in the Indian enterprise ecosystem Whether you're a CIO, IT leader, or enterprise strategist, this session offers valuable perspectives on how Jamf and Apple are shaping the future of secure, scalable IT in India

Join co-hosts Kat Garbis & Sean Rabbitt with guest Isaac Ordonez of Mann Consulting, a Jamf Partner, to discuss what it is like to be a managed service provider (MSP) and provide insight on ways they leverage Jamf.  Isaac discusses unique ways they are supporting Jamf to help their customers achieve compliance, building applications and integrations, how they are doing reports for launch daemons.   

Co-hosts Kat Garbis and Sean Rabbitt are joined by Suraj Mohandas (Vice President of Product Strategy), Emily McRoberts-Froese (Sr. Education Leadership Executive), and John Wetter (Director of Technology & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools) to discuss the current landscape for admins supporting K-12 .    Meet John Wetter, an IT Professional, Jamf customer, and public speaker out of Minneapolis, joins the Jamf team to discuss the current changes and evolution of supporting K-12, including security, privacy, budget, AI initiatives and more.    The team leans on Wetter's experience to understand how they are navigating cyber and physical threats in K-12 schools, best practices in identity, if AI has a place in education, and advice to other IT professionals in the K-12 space. 

Join Kat and Sean to discuss some exciting updates: Jamf ID, Jamf Account, SSO, betas, Compliance Benchmarks, Blue Prints and so much more. They are joined by William (Bill Smith), Technical Enablement Manager III, to discuss upcoming changes, what's currently in betas and how partners and Jamf Admins can maximize benefits from these latest updates. The team also makes constant references to Severance the entire segment with nods to the recent Apple event.

Join our co-hosts, Kat Garbis & Sean Rabbitt, as they have Matt Benyo (Manager, AI Initiatives) and David Pryce-Compson (Director, Data Sciences) discuss Jamf's AI program and strategy.    The team discusses why Jamf moved forward with AI and how it can benefit customers by streamlining work as well as enhance security. Our guests discuss how their teams support the development of AI at Jamf, use cases, how it has already helped customers that have beta tested it, and security.   Importantly, the team talks about security, and trust in the industry as well and balancing the power of AI with Jamf's commitment to security and privacy. A highlight the team unpacks is the decision to make all Jamf AI features opt-in and the safeguards to ensure data remains safe. This is an episode you do not want to miss! 

Jamf has been around since the very beginning of Apple MDM. Since then, there are so many other options to choose from; UEMs and other Apple-only options have entered the market place. IT Admins and corporate technology consumers are continuously evaluating their infrastructure and existing set ups. With so many other options - the question begs, why Jamf?Kat and Sean unpack this with Jamf's Liz Benz (Chief Sales Officer), Beth Tschida (Chief Technology Officer), and Veronica Batista Bernard (Director, Product Marketing - Market Intelligence).The team walks through trends they see of why existing customers and prospective customers choose Jamf, takeaways from JNUC, and why they personally would select Jamf. The team covers areas from cost efficiencies, compliance, all the way up to mobile security and integrations. Then, a sneak peek of what to expect in 2025 and a tech tip from Sean.

Join our co-hosts, Kat & Sean, on getting to know an entity within Jamf - Jamf Threat Labs.  With October being Cyber Security month, Jaron Bradley (Jamf, Director Threat Labs), describes what Jamf Threat Labs is, how they got founded, and gives a peek of what their day-to-day is like. Hear about how Jamf Threat Labs is the backbone to supporting Jamf security solutions and test for known and unknown threats. Then learn how once threats are found, the steps the team takes to report threats to keep technology safe. 

Our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis are live at JNUC 2024 in Nashville. For this special episode, they are joined by John Stroshal (Jamf CEO), and Milind Patel (Director, Product Management) to unpack the exciting announcements from the opening keynote in further detail as well as offer additional perspective on new features. The team talk through crowd favorites, such as Blue Prints, Ai, and Compliance Benchmarks, as well as go deeper into areas of the announcements that will make support and workflows easier for current and future customers.  The team also engages the Jamf Nation audience with a fun “Tech Tip.” 

Join our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis as they meet with two Senior Consulting Engineers, Timothy Knox and Jonathan Yuresko. Learn how they're addressing challenges with innovative mobile device solutions across various industries, including some that have contributed to Jamf securing patents related to mobility. From hotel workflows, medical, retail, and education, to airline support, and oil rigs, our co-hosts and guests take a peek into how customers can work with Jamf to solve technology problems that may not currently hold present-day answers. They even divulge in some of the exciting areas around tvOS and Vision ProOS.

Join our co-hosts, Kat Garbis and Sean Rabbitt and they invite Jamf's Senior Event Specialists, Jeff Ovik and Anna Hedstrom on what attendees can expect for the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) 2024.  Our co-hosts and guests discuss what is staying the same with the conference, what is changing, and what is brand new. Some of the exciting topics discussed are: How Jamf chose Nashville, Level Up onsite Jamf testing, Global Partner Summit, DEIB, and interactive labs/ Learn more and register for JNUC here: https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2024/ *You do not need to be a customer to attend JNUC

Our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis invite along Aaron Webb (Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Security), and Suraj Mohandas (VP of Product Strategy) to discuss the new exciting announcements at WWDC 2024. They discuss the pros and cons of Ai, updates and areas to consider for security in Sequoia, as well exciting highlights and potential use cases from the announcements. Edited by: Merlin Gulick

Join co-hosts Kat Garbis and Sean Rabbitt to hear an update on security from Jamf.  Sean opens the podcast by sharing an update from RSA. AI, mobile security, and all the ways one can get hacked came up frequently at RSA 2024. Jamf won three awards: Market Leader — Zero Trust BYOD, Market Leader — Mobile Device Security, Cutting Edge — Mobile Endpoint Security.  Guests, Max Simpson and Harry Jenkins (Jamf — Security), join to discuss one of Jamf's security solutions, Jamf Executive Threat Prevention (JETP). The team unpacks how it is different than Jamf Protect, types of organizations and individuals within an organization that would leverage this niche security solution, as well as ways it can prevent sophisticated mobile attacks and also provide mobile forensics.  Edited by: Merlin Gulick  

Join our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis to unpack a common theme "good enough." With guests Marcus Ransom and Kyle Randall (Jamf Solution Engineers), unpack when “good enough is good enough” and when it is problematic.The team talks through real life scenarios about where they have found good enough to be good enough, but also problematic in the long run.Important findings are that some folks, often don't realize there are other options and are going off limited knowledge. That leveraging a subject matter expert could be beneficial in making things more secure and streamlined in the long-run with less issues along the way.The team also discusses ways they have consulted in better ways and approaches to improving technology environments as well as risks of not keeping technology best practices current.The team closes out with asking “what kind of work do you want to do?” as no matter what, whether ripping out an out-of-date frame work requires some upfront time investment, but so does a critical problem down the road.Sean unveils the latest technology tip at the end.

Sean and Kat spend time unpacking the current landscape in identity. Platform Single Sign-on is a new update provided by Apple for identity. Sean provides an update on how we got to Platform Single-Sign-on. They unpack how SSO and Platform SSO have some similarities as well as core differences for admins to understand as they support identity as well as which IDPs have previews available. Kat and Sean then unpack where Jamf Connect is supporting this new equation. They talk through where Jamf Connect continues to fill gaps and verbally explain technical outcomes with the new workflow as well as what is required for securing identity for Macs. They also point out some possible security concerns to consider. Special Thanks to Mike VanDelinder for his support in this session.

Sean and Kat unpack current events in the Broadcom & VMware Acquisition with guests: Veronica Batista Bernard (Competitive Intelligence) & Andrew Needham (Professional Services Engineer - EMEIA). Our co-hosts and guests talk about why Broadcom bought VMWare, what it could look like for organizations that are possibly switching to Jamf from another MDM. They talk about what it would look like going from a cross-platform solution and what to consider with platform management, timelines, questions to consider, how this impacts end users, what this looks like technically and conceptually. The team talks about compliance, technical differences, and what Jamf brings to the table in inventory data collections. Sean and Kat also talk through an exciting technical update for Jamf Admins. Resource referenced in the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpvbRieS3DU&t=270s

Hosts Kat and Rabbit get an update on Microsoft Ignite from Katie John, Jamf Microsoft Partner Manager and Jamf Sales Engineer, Steve Wood. 

Co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis welcome Chief Strategy Officer, Henry Patel, and Product Manager, Katie English to unpack all the exciting updates from the JNUC Keynote in this live taping. They discuss key changes in Jamf Pro 11, welcoming back Fletcher Previn (formerly, IBM, now at Cisco) to discuss Apple and Jamf in the enterprise.

Join Kat and Sean as they bring back Matt Woodruff to discuss the Black Hat conference, key security conversations and Jamf's involvement. Then, they take time to discuss common security issues,  and the 2023 Security Findings Report.

Our co-hosts, Kat Garbis and Sean Rabbitt are joined by Jeff Ovik and Anna Hedstrom, Jamf Senior Event Specialists to unpack what to expect for JNUC 2023.   They reveal updates around sessions, getting more technical at JNUC for the pros, Braindate networking, differences of attending virtually and in-person. And they fill us in on some fun insights on the Jamf Nation Party!

Join our co-hosts, Kat Garbis & Sean Rabbitt with special guest, Aaron Webb (Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Security - Jamf) as they unpack all the excitement from WWDC. They uncover benefits of same-day support, highlight features, where these features will be supported by Jamf and where they'll be appreciated in the market. If you're a fan of WWDC, this special segment is just for you.

Our guests talk about how tho the education year is coming to a close, this is the time that those in K-12 and HiED use to plan for the upcoming year. In today's discussion, they cover Jamf Safe Internet, trends we're seeing in supporting customers in education and what to do, IDP integrations, Jamf education apps, TikTok, and more. Finally, they discuss the upcoming conference ISTE and what attendees can expect from Jamf.  If you're in education and wrapping up the school year, or looking to get ahead in what to consider for your autumn planning, this recording is for you. 

This episode, listen to  guests Matt Benyo, Matt Woodruff and Jaron Bradley to discuss the latest in how Jamf is helping customers in the security landscape as well as unpack what they presented on and learned at the RSA security conference. Then, hear from Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Jen Kaplan to further hear more about the Jamf Spring Event. Jen elaborates on Jamf Safe Internet and Trusted Access.

Our hosts Kat and Sean talk about how SwiftConnect extends the concept of Trusted Access into the physical workplace with Josh Jagdfeld from Jamf and Brandon Arcement from Swift Connect.

Our co-hosts welcome back the Jamf Healthcare team who was last on the podcast in 2020. Hear from current and new members of the team, both technical and product experts, as they discuss the various ways Jamf has grown and evolved in the space. It's no secret the pandemic was a disrupter in the healthcare industry. The Jamf team shares how this demanded new and innovated solutions, various use cases, as well as tackling emerging security efforts.   The team the highlights what to expect at the highly anticipated healthcare conference, HIMSS.   Guests this week are: Kari Chase, Adam Mahmud, Breean Moreno and Tim Knox

Hear from global Jamf subject matter experts on what they're seeing in security, phishing, supporting customers and how Jamf is offering to help. Understand trends in security, mobility, BYOD and more.

Jamf After Dark is back from a holiday hiatus! In this episode, we explore Jamf's Employee Resource Groups, which bring Jamfs together with deep engagement on topics of inclusion and diversity, advocating for accessibility, and sponsoring the occasional disco dance party. Join us as we talk through ERGs with Erin Ogren and Haddayr Copley-Woods.

In a preview of his upcoming JNUC 2022 talks, Detections Developer Matt Benyo joins the Jamf After Dark Podcast to talk Black Hat, bug bounties, and the difficulties of being friends with IT when your job is to find malware.

WWDC is exciting for a lot of reasons at Jamf, and our Software Engineering organization spends a lot of time getting ready for it. Jennifer Briggs stops by to tell us about how her teams prepare for this epic event, year after year.

The 2022 Jamf Nation User Conference is coming up fast! Join us for a preview of the amazing content, amazing party venue, and probably amazing tacos. Jeff Ovik and Anna Hedstrom from the Jamf Events team visit the Jamf After Dark Podcast to share everything you want to know.

Exciting community education updates from Valeria Tschida and Kelly Watkins Conrad, who talk us through efforts to bring technology to young learners around the world.

We're all excited about the debut of App Installers, and how Jamf's new feature will continue to evolve over time. Join us for another episode of the Jamf After Dark Podcast, when we phone ahead to the future and talk to Justin Clark, who has been solving the app update problem for years.

How do Jamf admins learn to script? By "borrowing" tips from other smart people on the internet. Join us for a rebooted Jamf After Dark Podcast with special guest Armin Briegel, the keeper of scriptingosx.com!

What is the cloud? Where is it? If you can't see it, how do you know it's there? What makes these clouds so resilient anyways? Join us for another episode of the Jamf After Dark Podcast when we solve all the cloudy problems of the world, with one of the few who can do it, Todd Ebersviller!

So we finish writing some sweet line of code and it just magically shows up in our cloud and on prem instances, right? Obviously not! But how does the machinery work? What are some of the controls we implement to make sure we ship good software? What part does compliance play? Luckily Jon Miller, the Senior Release Manager at Jamf, agreed to join us for this episode - where we unpack all this and more!

Jamf has always been a leader in Mac management for education. We continue to improve our footprint and hopefully impact in that space. Today's episode digs into some of the ways we do that, routes we have for educators to improve their skills, and how we see the future of device management in the space!

The Jamf Nation User Conference, or JNUC, is the largest gathering of Apple administrators on the planet. Maybe even in the universe! And it's free this year! In this episode we get behind the scenes a little with Jeff Ovik and Katie English to discuss what worked in the first remote JNUC last year, what we'll be changing, and get a sneak preview into some of the aspects (and sessions) they're most excited about!

Mike Scafide, the Manager of Product Feedback Programs at Jamf joins the podcast this week to talk about Beta programs, Release Candidates, and how we route feedback from early releases! We talk Jamf Nation, product - and how Jamf managed to be lucky enough to have him join us around 10 years ago! Oh and as a bonus - he tells us a little about his first Mac!

Malware. It happens. And when it does, we're really lucky to have a global community of security researchers that help identify, reverse engineer, and mitigate the impact of these nasties. In this episode we are joined by Jaron Bradley who is the Manager, MacOS Detections at Jamf and author of the book "OS X Incident Response: Scripting and Analysis" to tell us a little about the contributions he and many others, spread across a number of companies, make to help keep organizations and humans safer from bad actors.

Once upon a time, we tried to pipeline logs to centralized syslog hosts. And it was never great. Then, Apple gave us unified logging and the amount of logs skyrocketed. So the cmdReporter team took a step beyond that and built some amazing tooling to flow logs off Macs and into whatever SEIM an organization needs! Today, we talk with Dan Griggs about the philosophies, some of the tactics, and the massive case statements underneath cmdReporter! OK, so just kidding about the case statements but it was a super-fun episode!

What does the rest of 2021 have in store for security on Apple devices? What's the top thing Apple admins need to know about the state of security for the platform? What really defines crafty? And what face tattoos should we get?!?! Jamf's Chief Information Security Officer Aaron Kiemele joins the Jamf After Dark Podcast to answer all these crazy questions and... spoiler alert - by the end of the episode Annie threatens to take her thermostat out of the wall (hopefully after winter)!

Cynthia Williamson and Nick Amundsen join the podcast in this episode, to talk through the difficult task of translating company strategy into shippable increments of products that customers  want. We discuss balancing quality, roadmaps, company strategy, and working through the evolving landscape of a growing engineering and product organization.

Linnea Olson joins Annie and Charles for an episode to tell us all about her favorite game on the Apple II, how she's stayed sane during quarantine, and tell us a little about what happens when customers respond to those customer success surveys. We'll talk through NPS, movie clubs, and dealing with keeping twin 4-year olds at home!

Deb and Krzysztof join the podcast to talk design! In this episode we go from how design language informs how we work to how design systems help an organization consistently apply those frameworks. We talk user experience, design, and try and get at the heart of the matter: when we can get the neon lime green (or maybe brushed metal) back!

Few people understand that intersection between small businesses and Apple Device Management as Karen Goss. She was kind enough to join the podcast for this latest episode talking through Jamf Now, some stats on the state of affairs for small businesses, and one more thing... a marketing tip for any small business owners listening in!

Annie and Charles are joined by Daniel MacLaughlin to tell us a little about what it's like jetting around the Asia Pacific countries, deploying all the things - and of course we get him to tell us about snakes and the creative naming schemes Australians use for them (which is not unlike many a naming scheme used for packages over the years)!

We were lucky enough to convince the most excellent Kelly Watkins Conrad to join us on this episode of the podcast. After spending years in support and sales, she has all the info on moving to Jamf Cloud. In this episode, she talks DNS, certificates, and of course - doodling! It's a blast and we are so happy to get our final episode of 2020 out to everyone. We hope everyone has a safe and wonderful holiday season and see you back for the fourth season of Jamf After Dark soon!

Dave Saltmarsh joins Annie and Charles in this episode to talk about how things are going in education, what an education strategist does, and share some of his knowledge from decades of experience in the classroom and then enabling edtech for others. It's a great journey, with lots to think about (which is pretty much every conversation anyone has ever had with him).

We've talked to UX, product managers, engineers, and all kinds of other people on the podcast. But never a product owner. So Sara Graves joins the Jamf After Dark podcast to talk about product owners, how they help teams succeed, and one of the more intriguing aspects to many a customer, how they help prioritize work to be done on products!

In the final installment of our post-JNUC podcast takeover, hear about all things security from Patrick Wardle and Andrew Medearis!

Our post-JNUC podcast takeover continues, this time to talk about Jamf Marketplace and Jamf Nation Redeploy with Josh Jagdfeld and Sam Weiss!