Jamf After Dark
by Jamf
Device management is complex. Security threats are constant. Apple ecosystems are evolving fast. Who's managing these challenges? What does it actually take? And most importantly, how do you stay ahead? Welcome to Jamf After Dark, where IT leaders, security professionals and Apple experts tackle the real issues facing organisations today. Join our hosts as they uncover what works, what doesn't, and how to build technology strategies that actually stick. Hear honest conversations about managing devices at scale, securing endpoints, protecting data, and supporting hybrid workforces. New Jamf features and capabilities. Real stories from IT teams solving actual problems. For IT Admins, Mac admins,directors, security specialists, educators and Apple advocates.
Episodes
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AI-Native Workforce Security: Amplifier Security and Jamf
AI-native workforce security is how Amplifier Security and Jamf close the gap between security policy and employee action, without slowing anyone down. In this episode of Jamf After Dark, hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton talk with Shreyas Sadalgi (Co-Founder & CEO) and Thomas Donnelly…
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JNUC 2026: What the Jamf Events Team Wants You to Know
JNUC 2026 moved to September and runs Wednesday to Friday for the first time. The two people who organize it explain what else changed. Join JNUC 2026! September 23–25 Kansas City https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2026/overview/ Jeff Ovik runs JNUC registration. Kelsey Dahl...
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Mac Threat Hunting as a Service: Inside Beacon by Jamf Threat Labs
Most security teams know Windows inside out, but not macOS. Beacon by Jamf Threat Labs hunts the Mac malware and attacker activity your team misses. In this episode of Jamf After Dark, hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton talk with Jaron Bradley, Director of Jamf Threat Labs, about the state of the...
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Travis County: Why We Moved 1,900+ Apple Devices Back to Jamf
Travis County's Senior Systems Engineer explains why his team migrated 1,900+ Apple devices back to Jamf after trying a competing MDM, and how Jamf tools caught phishing test emails before users ever saw them. Billy Roberts manages endpoints for Travis County government in Austin, Texas, a hybrid...
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K-12 Buying Season Is Here. It's Not Just About the Device
One K12 school was blocking roughly 1,000 phishing attacks per day, and had no idea it was happening. EDU Buying season is here, and security, classroom tools, parent controls, and teacher adoption all need answers before a single device gets ordered. Mat Pullen, Jamf's Product Marketing Director...
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Mobile Device Attacks: Jamf Mobile Forensics with Chris Deane and Harry Jenkins
Mobile device security is the biggest blind spot in most organizations, and most IT teams have no way to investigate when something goes wrong. Chris Deane, Senior Sales Engineer for Jamf Security Products, and Harry Jenkins, Senior Sales Manager for Jamf Mobile Forensics, sit down with hosts Kat...
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Platform SSO and Okta: Identity Meets Jamf Device Management on Mac
Okta's Dan Hefley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-hefley), Senior Product Manager for Device Access, explains how Platform SSO brings enterprise identity to the Mac. From day-zero Setup Assistant enrollment in macOS 26 to device bound SSO using secure enclave keys, Dan covers what IT teams need…
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Let's talk App Catalog - Free iPad App Discovery Tool for Educators
Educators: ever wonder why certain apps are on your classroom iPads? App Catalog shows you the why behind every app, plus how other teachers use them. We also discuss Jamf's Matter Innovation Hubs - free community learning centers operated in collaboration with Jamf in the US and internationally....
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I Have No Idea What Terraform Is - Infrastructure as Code for Mac Admins
If you're clicking through Jamf Pro configs manually, you're about to learn why that's becoming a problem. Security teams are starting to ban console access. MSPs are wasting hours rebuilding the same configs for each client. And organizations scaling to hundreds of Macs are drowning in manual...
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How Workbrew Solves Homebrew Security & Compliance for Mac Developers
John Britton, CEO of WorkBrew, joins Jamf After Dark to discuss how organizations can solve the security, compliance, and management challenges of using the open-source package manager Homebrew on macOS at scale. This episode is a must-listen for any IT or Security leader managing a fleet of Mac...
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JNUC 2025 Recap: Platform SSO, AI Features & macOS Security Updates
Katie English & Chris Schasse discuss JNUC 2025 highlights: Platform SSO, Blueprints updates, AI security features, and macOS Tahoe improvements. What You'll Learn: Platform API updates enabling third-party integrations with Jamf Blueprints and compliance features Platform SSO implementation...
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Jamf Support, Supercharged: Intercom + AI, 24/7, 10+ Languages
200+ agents, 24/7 global coverage and AI assist. Explore how Jamf cut first response from 7 hours to under 10 minutes. Jamf After Dark hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton sit down with Lisa Akerson (VP, Global Technical Support) and CJ Krueger (Sr. Program Manager, Technical Support) to unpack...
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Inside JNUC 2025: Sessions, Swag & the Party You Can't Miss
Join co-hosts Josh Thornton and Kat Garbis along with members of the Jamf events team to discuss JNUC 2025. Jeff Ovik (Sr. Event Specialist) and Kelsey Dahl (Sr. Event Specialist) join the podcast to help discuss what listeners can expect at JNUC 2025. From hotel accommodations, things to do in...
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Modernize Your VPN without Replacing it: Understanding The Newest Feature Addition, Network Relay
Join co-hosts Kat Garbis & Josh Thornton with Jamf guests, Iulia Arghir (Senior Product Manager) and Alexander Dove (Senior Sales Engineer) as they introduce and unpack the exciting details of a new feature, Network Relay. Network Relay provides a modern VPN framework, built into the OS and...
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I inherited a Jamf instance. Now what?
Join host, Kat Garbis, with special guest, Matt Jerome (Sr. Engineer Desktops, Fanatics) to discuss a common scenario in the Mac Admin world: inheriting a Jamf instance. You didn't build the Jamf Pro instance — someone else did. Perhaps they built it but not quite in the way you would have done…
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Compliance, Launch Daemons and Jamf Account, Oh My!
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…
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Jamf After Dark - Current Landscape of Security and Privacy for K-12
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...
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Jamf ID, Jamf Account, Jamf Updates and New Features, Oh My!
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...
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Unpacking Jamf AI: The Revenge of Spicy Clippy
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...
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The Million Dollar Question: Why Jamf?
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...
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Get to know Jamf Threat Labs for Cyber Security Month
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...
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Jamf After Dark - Live at JNUC 2024
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...
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Creativity with Jamf Mobility
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...
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All You Need To Know About JNUC 2024
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,...
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Unpacking WWDC 2024
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...
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Jamf Executive Threat Protection
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 —...
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Is Good Enough, Good Enough?
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…
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Identity Market Updates: Platform SSO vs Good Old SSO We All Know
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…
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Tech News Update: Broadcom & VMWare Acquisition - What Migrating To Jamf Could Look Like & What Organizations Need to Consider
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...
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Jamf After Dark: an update from Microsoft Ignite 2023
Hosts Kat and Rabbit get an update on Microsoft Ignite from Katie John, Jamf Microsoft Partner Manager and Jamf Sales Engineer, Steve Wood.
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Jamf After Dark Live at JNUC
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)…
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JAD: Unpacking Black Hat and the Security Findings Report
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.
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JNUC 2023 Preview
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...
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Special Edition: WWDC 2023
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…
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Join our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis once again as they unpack the world of education with guests Mat Pullen (Sr. Product Marketing Manager — Jamf ) and Suraj Mohandas (VP of Product Strategy — Jamf).
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,...
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An update on the RSA Security Conference and the Jamf Spring Event
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...
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Jamf Trust Employee Badge with Jamf and SwiftConnect
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.
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An update on Jamf in Healthcare
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...
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Current Mobile Security Landscape
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.
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On Jamf Cloud With Todd Ebersviller
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!
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Shipping New Versions Of Jamf Products
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,...
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Education Leadership at Jamf
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…
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Here Comes JNUC 2021!
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...
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Product Feedback Programs
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…
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Jaron Bradley's Holistic Malware Detective Agency
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…
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Streaming logs and cmdReporter, with Dan Griggs
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...
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Talking Security with Jamf's CISO: Aaron Kiemele
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…
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Where Strategy and Product Management Meet
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...
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A Journey from the Apple II to Customer Success
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...
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Device management is complex. Security threats are constant. Apple ecosystems are evolving fast. Who's managing these challenges? What does it actually take? And most importantly, how do you stay ahead? Welcome to Jamf After Dark, where IT leaders, security professionals and Apple experts tackle the real issues facing organisations today. Join our hosts as they uncover what works, what doesn't, and how to build technology strategies that actually stick. Hear honest conversations about managing devices at scale, securing endpoints, protecting data, and supporting hybrid workforces. New Jamf features and capabilities. Real stories from IT teams solving actual problems. For IT Admins, Mac admins,directors, security specialists, educators and Apple advocates.
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