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The Latest Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Deals
Over the past week or so, we’ve announced three new deals that we wanted to recap in case anyone missed the announcements. First of all, we’re in the process of expanding the Club Discounts page to add more iOS and iPadOS apps now that Apple makes it much easier for App Store developers to create...
In This Issue
Federico shares Shortcuts techniques to find projects and headings in Things, John explains how he uses two tools for proofreading, Niléane has a new 11-inch iPad Pro setup, Jonathan shares shortcuts for setting your Slack status, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest happenings in the Club MacStories+ Discord community, a recap of MacStories...
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John move on from the Apple Vision Pro’s hardware to talk about visionOS, what works, what doesn’t, and where they’d like to see it head next. Next week onMagic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon highlight new Apple Original space adventure series Constellation, recap Criminal Record, and preview...
Are You Worse at Security Than the TSA? [Sponsored]
You know the drill: when you go through airport security there are two lines. In one, a TSA agent makes sure you’re the person in your passport photo. In the other, a machine scans your carry-on for explosives, weapons, or a normal-sized bottle of shampoo.
Enterprise security is much the same, but instead of passengers and luggage, we’re talking about end users and their devices. In the first line, user authentication verifies a user’s identity, and it’s gotten pretty sophisticated in the past few years, with SSO and MFA becoming more common.
But user devices don’t get nearly the same level of attention. The average device trust solution only looks at a handful of endpoint security factors, like OS updates and firewall. If this really were the TSA, that wouldn’t even be an x-ray machine, more like holding a bag to your ear and listening for a ticking sound.
And that’s assuming an organization looks at end user devices at all. Kolide’s Shadow IT report found that 47% of companies let unmanaged devices access their resources, and authenticate via credentials alone.
Unmanaged devices (those outside a company’s MDM) can be infected with malware, full of PII, or worse–they can belong to a bad actor using phished employee credentials.
And hey, there are valid reasons for a device not to be enrolled in MDM. Contractor devices, Linux machines, and employee phones all need to be able to access company resources. But there’s plenty of room for middle ground between “fully locked down and managed” and an open-door device policy.
Specifically, companies need device trust solutions that block devices from authenticating if they don’t meet minimum security requirements.
Even with phishing-resistant MFA, it’s frighteningly easy for bad actors to impersonate end users–in the case of the MGM hack, all it took was a call to the help desk. What could have prevented that attack (and so many others) was an unspoofable form of authentication for the device itself.
That’s what you get with Kolide’s device trust solution: a chance to verify that a device is both known and secure before it authenticates. Kolide’s agent looks at hundreds of device properties (remember, our competitors only look at a handful). What’s more, our user-first, privacy-respecting approach means you can put it on machines outside MDM: contractor devices, mobile phones, and even Linux machines.
Without a device trust solution, all the security in the world is just security theater. But Kolide can help close the gaps. (And we won’t even make you take off your shoes.)
To learn more, please watch our on-demand demo.
Our thanks to Kolide for sponsoring MacStories this week.
In This Issue
Federico reports on issues he’s had in his early testing of Shortcuts on the Apple Vision Pro, Jonathan explores Apple’s photo editing AI research, Club members share their Vision Pro experiences, John wonders what if the iPad had the kind of Mac integration the Vision Pro does, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, the latest...
A Vision Pro Town Hall and Obsidian Plugin Update
On Thursday, February 15th, at Noon Eastern US time, we’ll be holding a Club Town Hall in the Town Hall audio channel to share our first impressions of the Apple Vision Pro. Please join us live and bring your questions. We’ll release the audio later in the day in the Club Town Hall podcast feed....
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Next week on AppStories, Federico and John share their experiences with the Apple Vision Pro. Next week on Magic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon visit post-WWII Paris in style with The New Look, recap Usher’s performance at the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show, and catch up on all the latest news...