Jamf Blog

As more businesses move IT infrastructure to the cloud, the threat of employee account takeover becomes more of a concern. If you’ve migrated to SaaS applications like M365, Zoom, and Salesforce, they are going to be exposed to the public internet, and fall beyond the purview of traditional network security technologies like a firewall. The adoption of the cloud means that security professionals need to reconsider how users are authenticated; relying on identity controls alone is a surefire way to increase the risk of account takeover attacks.

Today, we announced a new integration as part of our partnership efforts with Microsoft by connecting Jamf Protect and Microsoft Azure Sentinel. This integration natively pushes all Mac security-related data and alerts directly into Azure Sentinel instance with minimal configuration.

Apple just pushed updates to both XProtect and the Malware Removal Tool, MRT.

Jamf acquires cmdReporter, an auditing and compliance solution that integrates with Jamf Pro and existing security data repositories.

The new Mac-focused malware Silver Sparrow has been found on more than 29k macOS endpoints, and it runs natively on the Intel or M1 chips. Luckily, this appears to have been laying a foundation for a future payload and so far appears benign. And you can find and remove it.

Malware authors are rebuilding malware for M1 as universal binaries, and endpoint protection must meet the charge.

The exploitation of Chrome and Edge's zero-day vulnerabilities has sent home the message that when vendors publish patches it is critical for organizations to roll them out as efficiently as possible.

The CVE-2021-3156 Sudo vulnerability represents a security issue that Mac admins should be aware of. Yes, Macs are affected by this.