Jamf Blog

Jake Burns, Enterprise Strategist with Amazon Web Services, joined us to share their AWS initiatives and response to COVID-19, online learning offerings and advanced services that support remote work, easily and securely.

This is the session for you to learn about; basic tools needed to secure a Mac, creating a baseline security configuration and maintaining it, basic concepts of how to investigate attacks to your Mac, and using Connect.

Communication is among the most important aspect of education and is also the biggest challenge in remote learning environments. Jamf School developed a unique feature in the Jamf School Teacher app called Remote Class to increase student engagement and confidence in any environment.

Learn about current trends in the Mac threat landscape, including information on recent malware as well as new techniques seen from adware and PUPs. (In many ways, adware on the Mac is FAR more clever and interesting than malware!)

There will always be documentation waiting to be done. Using mainly built-in tools with Jamf, the macOS and Microsoft Word, Mick Conners of Madison Area Technical College outlined how he created a comprehensive document to share with others.

This session was for beginners wanting to learn more about how Jamf Protect can secure their Macs, as well as remediate threats. Kelly Watkins Conrad, a field sales engineer at Jamf, went through an overview of Jamf Protect, how to deploy it to your Mac fleet, how to can use threat prevention to automatically take care of unwanted processes, and finally, how it integrates with Jamf Pro to do customized remediation.

The unique integrations between Jamf and Microsoft open a world of Mac management opportunities for Windows Admins.

Adam Wickert shows the steps and tools used to get zero-touch enrollment from a system configured to work on campus.