The MacAdmins Community has a long, vibrant history of solving problems together usually through open source projects that become essential tools in our workflows. Whatever challenge you’re facing, chances are there’s already a project, or a group of passionate people, tackling something similar.

But with so many options, the path forward isn’t always clear. Do you adopt an existing open source tool? Invest in a polished, commercial solution? Or roll up your sleeves and build something totally new?

Today we’re diving into one admins journey into this struggle, and their path as they decided to build their own solutions for automating application and software patching in their organization.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Rob Schroeder - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://techitout.xyz/2025/04/24/automating-apple-os-ddm-software-updates-in-jamf-pro-using-azure-runbooks/
• https://techitout.xyz/2024/10/08/jnuc-2024/
• https://community.jamf.com/idaho-mac-admins-93/idaho-apple-admins-meetup-55529

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Arek and Matt joined us in March of 2025 to talk about Vulnerability Management, and they’re back to share their progress, as well as a look at the future. Then we’ll dive in on the week’s news.

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Arek Dreyer - LinkedIn
• Matt Day - LinkedIn

Links:

• Release notes - https://www.kandji.io/updates/2025/07/vulnerability-response-remediation/
• Support article - https://support.kandji.io/kb/patching-applications-based-on-cve-severity
• The Failure Mode of Clever - https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson

Macs are safe - they don’t get malware. We used to hear this all the time and whilst Apple has done a wonderful job of building a secure by design operating system, there are still threats out there we need to protect ourselves against. It’s also no surprise that macOS is not Windows. And it’s further and further away from behaving like UNIX these days. So how do we know what to look for, and where to even go looking for it? Jaron Bradley from Jamf Threat Labs joins us to talk about his new book: Threat Hunting macOS - Mastering endpoint security

Hosts:

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
• Selina Ali - LinkedIn

Guests:

• Jaron Bradley - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://themittenmac.com/threat-hunting-book/
• https://objectivebythesea.org
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
• SpriteTree https://themittenmac.com/tools/

Sponsors:

• Kandji
• 1Password
• Nudge Security
• Material Security
• Watchman Monitoring

If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email podcast@macadmins.org for more information.

Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're @MacAdmPodcast!

The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson