Future of Device Management Fleet Device Management

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
The future of MacAdmin work
 
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/shortxstackRecon InfoSec's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Recon_InfoSecBlog: https://www.reconinfosec.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/recon-infosec/OpenSoc: https://opensoc.io/Try FleetFleet 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
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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
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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
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In today’s episode of the Future of Device Management podcast, we speak with Prima Virani— Detection & Response Engineering Lead at Twilio. 
Topics discussed:
- Prima’s journey into cybersecurity and what initially made her so excited about the industry. 
- What Prima’s day-to-day looks like leading detection and response engineering at an organization with nearly 9,000 employees. 
- Lessons from deploying Fleet and why Prima’s team decided to host it entirely on an EKS cluster. 
- Why endpoint visibility is an essential building block for the success of any detection and response team. 
- How to think about container security. 
- 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 
 
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