Webinar: macOS Security Compliance

Keeping your macOS device in compliance requires constant vigilance as security threats evolve. In our recent webinar macOS Security Compliance: Strategies for Success & Introducing Compliance Benchmarks, Mignon Wagner, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Jamf, discusses how to manage this never-ending task. In this blog, we'll provide a preview of the webinar's contents.

Cybersecurity frameworks

Cybersecurity frameworks help IT and security admins keep their organization compliant and insulated from cyber threats by:

• Defining policies and procedures for establishing and maintaining security controls
• Clarifying processes used to defend against cybersecurity risks

Wagner details different types of cybersecurity frameworks, namely:

• Control, like NIST 800-53B or the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks
• Program, like ISO 27001 and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• Risk, like NIST SP 800-30 and ISO 27005
• Compliance, like CIS benchmarks, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and ISO 27001

Selecting the right framework for your organization depends on your devices, practices, industry standards and other components. Frameworks benefit your organization in multiple ways. Beyond providing security guidance, successful implementations of frameworks can protect your company's reputation, mitigate security risks, improve customer confidence and more.

Simplifying compliance with Jamf

Jamf makes it easier to maintain device compliance. With Mobile Device Management (MDM) software like Jamf Pro, organizations can:

• Configure devices and users
• Maintain communication with managed devices
• Automate configuration and deployment
• Implement and enforce security policies
• Keep software and operating systems updated
• Monitor device compliance in real time

macOS Security Compliance Project

The macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) is a open-source, collaborative initiative to help secure macOS. The mSCP covers security controls, configurations and device monitoring.

Jamf Compliance Editor

The Jamf Compliance Editor is built on mSCP and gives admins a simple way to establish and manage compliance baselines on their Apple devices. Admins can easily select their benchmarks and baselines for customization in an easy-to-use UI that doesn't rely on complicated scripting. This means it's faster and easier to get devices in a compliant state.

Compliance Benchmarks and Blueprints

Compliance Benchmarks and Blueprints, both in Jamf Pro, offer simplified ways to enforce device compliance. Compliance Benchmarks, also built on mSCP, help enforce benchmarks, mitigate security risks and automatically validate compliance.

Blueprints are powered by Declarative Device Management (DDM) and make policy enforcement easier and faster. Check out the webinar for details.

Key takeaways

To close, Wagner summaries the key points of the webinar:

• Compliance is a continuous process.
• DDM makes compliance easier, as devices self-enforce policies without relying on reactive MDM commands.
• Endpoint security frameworks provide deep visibility for real time compliance and threat detection.
• Organizations should ensure cryptographic verification with signed config profiles.
• Tools like Jamf help IT audit, detect and remediate devices to maintain compliance.