Jamf After Dark

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 macOS threat landscape in 2026, and a new service that brings dedicated Mac threat hunting to your env...

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 environment with 6,900 Windows devices and nearly 2,000 Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, and Mac...

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 for Education and a former classroom teacher, joins hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton for a frank con...

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 Garbis and Josh Thornton to talk through what actually happens when a mobile device gets attacked. The...

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 to know about deploying Platform SSO with Okta and Jamf. Dan shares his perspective as a former MDM adm...

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. These hubs focus on technology-enhanced, student-centered learning and serve educators, students, and...

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 changes with zero audit trail. Ryan Legg, Jamf's Solutions Engineer for Infrastructure as Code, breaks do...

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 devices used by software engineers. Learn how WorkBrew provides visibility, governance, and automated s...

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 replacing traditional Jamf Connect workflows Automated software update workflows through Jamf Bluepri...

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 what's new in Jamf Support: an Intercom-powered omnichannel experience, AI assistance for common questions...

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 Denver, Braindates, session topics, the Global Partner Summit, Level Up, and of course — the JNUC party,...

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 deployable via MDM . Rather than replacing an existing VPN all together, Network Relay can work alongsi...

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 it.  Maybe the instance came through an acquisition, someone left the organization, regardless, this h...

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 daem...

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...

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 Sever...

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,...

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 Li...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Guli...

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 Jenki...

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 fo...