Future of Device Management: Recent Episodes
Fleet Device Management
Welcome to the Future of Device Management brought to you by Fleet. This podcast is dedicated to helping IT and security professionals get ahead of the curve and prepare themselves and their organizations for what lies ahead. In each episode, Zach Wasserman will interview an IT or security leader to learn how they are succeeding at managing their devices today and how they are preparing for tomorrow.
Show notes:
In his day job Mat X serves the local film, VFX (visual effects), and media production industries. As an established storage, workflow, and backup expert, he builds better workflows from camera to archive and back again. Working with high-speed fiber channel SAN storage led to a healthy respect for well established backup, archive, and disaster recovery systems, balancing on-premise LTO (linear tape open) systems that offer fast and secure backups with cloud (other people’s data centers).
Many years of managing Macs and other devices has created a large community of IT professionals wanting to do the same. Seeing the new trend of Mac open source software collaboratively written and wanting to focus on the niche of developers (Dev) and IT (Ops) working together, Mat X founded a new conference called MacDevOps:YVR (MDO:YVR for short). In 2015, the first MDO annual conference of IT, system administrators, programmers, and DevOps professionals worldwide took place in Vancouver (YVR). Knowing that more storage and services were moving into the “Cloud” and that writing software collaboratively was a necessary learning goal for many, MDO was created as a way forward to building a better community. Several successful in person conferences later, the pandemic shifted everything online to a greater worldwide audience with speakers and attendees around the globe. Now with the MDO podcast, book club series, and many workshops online throughout the pandemic, the learning never stops. Planning continues for more conferences and community events to train the next generation of IT Pros and seasoned conference speakers.
Topics discussed:
- Mat’s background and how he got into the MacAdmins world
- What a day in the life of Mat X looks like
- Illuminating the biggest changes of MacAdmin over the years
- The creation and journey of MDOYVR
- Why MacAdmins came to be so community-oriented (open source eg. MicroMDM, Nudge, etc)
- What the biggest challenges the industry and MacAdmin teams are
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The future of MacAdmin work
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Learn more about MDOYVR.
- Find Mat on Twitter.
- Find MacDevOpsYVR on Twitter.
- Find Mat on LinkedIn.
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Whitney is a co-founder and the lead architect at Recon InfoSec. She has extensive experience in large-scale infrastructure automation and orchestration in both the private and public sector. She builds and maintains the security stack that powers Recon’s MDR services and their network defense range, which powers their NDR training and OpenSOC.io.
Topics discussed:
- Whitney’s background and how she got involved with cybersecurity
- Understanding the importance of learning new security tooling
- Whitney’s involvement with OpenSOC and Blue Team CTF at DefCon
- Recommendations for transferring skills from practice to practical methodologies
- Where her excitement for open source stems from
- What some of the biggest challenges Recon InfoSec face and how they overcome them
- The future of cybersecurity
Whitney's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shortxstack Recon InfoSec's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Recon_InfoSec Blog: https://www.reconinfosec.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/recon-infosec/ OpenSoc: https://opensoc.io/
Try Fleet
Fleet makes it easy to get accurate, actionable data from all your endpoints. From full disk encryption to healthy antivirus software and any query in between. See for yourself. Sign up for Fleet Sandbox for free today:
https://fleetdm.com/try-fleet/register.
Jesse Peterson is a Client Platform Engineer for Meta, contributor to MicroMDM, and creator of NanoMDM. In today’s episode, we talk with Jesse about how he’s used his involvement in open source communities to develop better MDM tools and experience career growth. Listen now to learn how your organization can build a better device management strategy.
Show Notes:
- Jesse’s background and how he got involved with Client Platform Engineering
- Recognizing value adds of open source with MDM software
- The significance of getting involved with communities, like MacAdmins, and how they lead to career development.
- What led to the creation of MicroMDM and NanoMDM
- How to overcome the challenges of a Client Platform Engineer
- His top three pieces of advice for organizations working on building out their device management strategy
Nick Anderson is a security engineer at Meta, and a member of the osquery technical steering committee. In today’s episode we talk with him about how he overcame the challenges of endpoint security using osquery. Listen in to learn how your organization can best secure its endpoint computing devices.
Topics discussed:
- Nick’s background in cybersecurity and how he got involved with osquery
- The biggest challenges of osquery on windows
- What excites Nick about being a part of the technical steering committee for osquery
- Monitoring and securing various endpoints
- How mobile devices change endpoint security strategies
- His top 3 pieces of advice for managing and securing computing devices
Chris Long is a Staff Security Engineer at Material Security, and you might know him from some of his open-source work at Detection Lab. In the episode today, we talk about his work with Facebook and Uber using osquery, and his thoughts on the present and future state of cybersecurity.
Topics discussed:
- Chris’s story and how he got into cybersecurity
- The day-to-day of a Staff Security Engineer
- How Chris used osquery while he worked at Facebook
- The benefits and power of osquery
- How Chris went from an osquery skeptic to seeing the strengths
- Why Chris started DetectionLab and how it helps security professionals
- Top tips for device management and security strategy for organizations
- Biggest challenges organizations face related to security today
- Changes we can expect to see in cybersecurity over the coming years
Where to Get in Touch
Find Chris on LinkedIn
In today’s episode of the Future of Device Management podcast, we speak with Prima Virani— Detection & Response Engineering Lead at Twilio.
Topics discussed:
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Prima’s journey into cybersecurity and what initially made her so excited about the industry.
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What Prima’s day-to-day looks like leading detection and response engineering at an organization with nearly 9,000 employees.
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Lessons from deploying Fleet and why Prima’s team decided to host it entirely on an EKS cluster.
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Why endpoint visibility is an essential building block for the success of any detection and response team.
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How to think about container security.
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Prima’s top advice for teams building an endpoint detection and response strategy.
Resources mentioned:
Blog post Prima wrote - Hosting FleetDM on AWS EKS
Book that Zach mentioned - Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Applications 1st Edition
Where to get in touch:
Follow Prima on Twitter
Follow Prima on Linkedin
In today’s episode of the Future of Device Management podcast, we speak with Mike Arpaia — co-creator and visionary of osquery and partner at Moonfire Ventures — a London-based VC firm focused on seed-stage investing in Europe.
Topics discussed:
- Mike’s journey from a software engineer focused on security problems to a venture capitalist investing in leading startups.
- How a macOS compromise while working at Etsy led Mike to realize how little visibility organizations have into their Mac fleets.
- What motivated Mike and his co-creators to build an open-source project — and how they got management buy-in at Facebook.
- The tipping point where osquery began to gain traction with engineers at leading organizations.
- How it feels to see osquery continue to grow and evolve.
- Mike’s #1 piece of advice for those embarking on a journey of trying to understand what’s going on in the systems they manage.
Where to get in touch:
Follow Mike on Twitter
Visit Mike’s personal website