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5 Critical Google Workspace Security Settings You're Probably Missing
Google Workspace misconfigurations or disabled security settings can be easy to miss. This guide from Nudge Security provides a deep dive on the top 5 Google Workspace security settings that should be on your checklist.
For each security setting, we cover:
- Common misconfigurations to look out for
- Best practices for effective risk reduction
- Considerations for tailoring settings based on user privilege
Learn what you can do today to significantly improve your Google Workspace security posture.
Summer is progressing. Reminder that this news summary is on a two-week schedule during July and August. Next issue will be July 25. Weekly issues resume in September, just in time for the major releases.
I hope you all got some time off or are looking forward to some! Apple's beta phase is progressing. I have used the Summer Camp "off" week to add a feature that I myself have wanted for a while to the utiluti command line tool.
📰 News and Opinion
iMazing Profile Editor 2 is still the Swiss Army knife app for Apple IT admins
That’s where iMazing’s Profile Editor has been a Swiss Army knife tool for IT admins. With version 2, it became an even more useful tool for Apple IT admins.
TLM: It's a Trap (And I'm Still in It)
It’s been nearly two years since I moved from being an Individual Contributor (IC) to a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) - a hybrid role that combines the responsibilities of a manager with those of a senior engineer.
⚙️ Apple Updates
- Logic Pro: Mac 11.2.1, iPad 2.2.1
- Apple Business Manager: Release notes, User Guide, Revision history
- Apple School Manager: Release notes, User Guide, Revision history
- Apple Business Essentials: Release notes, User Guide, Revision history
What's the future for your Intel Mac?
From its first announcement of Apple silicon Macs on 22 June 2020, there has been speculation as to when support of Intel models will cease. Now Apple has given exceptionally clear details of its future intentions, and we have a clearer idea of what’s coming in macOS Tahoe, we can make plans at last. This article looks at the years ahead.
🔐 Security and Privacy
Atomic macOS Stealer includes a backdoor for persistent access
Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), a popular piece of stealer malware for macOS, has just received a major update. For the first time, it’s being deployed with an embedded backdoor.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
Deploying AirPrint printers using Blueprints in Jamf Pro
Jamf Pro’s Blueprints leverages this capability to support deploying printers which can use AirPrint.
Deploy Apple Software Beta Updates with Jamf Pro Blueprints without an Apple Account
With Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager and an Device Management Solution solution, organizations can now enroll supervised Macs into AppleSeed for IT beta programs without requiring an Apple Account on each device.
Deploying Self Service+ in place of Self Service on Macs managed by Jamf Pro
Choosing to deploy the Self Service+ app by default in place of the Self Service classic app will result in the following changes taking place on all macOS 13 Ventura and later Macs which are managed by that Jamf Pro server
Managing hiding the menu bar in macOS
Can you manage the settings for Automatically hide and show the menu bar in macOS? Yes, you can (at least as of macOS 15.5)!
🤖 Scripting and Automation
headmin/paw-project
This project extends the widely-popular SAP Privileges application (SAP macOS-enterprise-privileges) by providing a centralized audit logging and analytics service API in the cloud
Uninstall Netskope without password
I had to find a way to completely nuke it from the Mac I was troubleshooting.
Using Munki for compliance baseline enforcement with munki-mscp-generator
Enter munki-mscp-generator: a new way to allow you to generate mSCP guidance as Munki items!
♻️ Updates and Releases
- utiluti v1.2
- Setup Manager 1.3 (blog
- super v5.1.0-beta5
- Privileges 2.4.0
- Replicator v8.1.1
- Intuneomator 1.0.1.077
- API Utility v0.6.8
- AutoPkg 2.7.5
- Munki 7.0 Beta 7
- Archeology 1.3
- Mactracker 8.0.1
- macOS Security Compliance
- Jamf Pro 11.18.1
- Mac Admins Open Source Python: 3.10.11, 3.11.7, 3.12.1, 3.13.5
🎧 Listen
AI Driven IT for Less Toil with Emanuele Sparvoli, Director of IT at Intercom
Emanuele Sparvoli, the Director of IT at Intercom.
Device Compliance with Sriram & Preetham from Scalefusion
Sriram & Preetham from Scalefusion join us to talk about device security & compliance, as well as how to handle the necessary access control issues that can come from it.
Portability for Passkeys is coming to macOS
Rew Islam from Dashlane joins the show to discuss Passkey portability coming to macOS this fall and how we can continue to refine password management in the enterprise.
Surviving the Unthinkable: Adam Burg's Personal Account of California's Eaton Fire
Adam Burg of CALSO Technologies to share his harrowing experience with the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California.
Looking at PSSO after WWDC, with Michael Epping
From modern authentication at enrollment, Single Sign on extensions through to Federation of Managed Apple accounts and Platform Single Sign-on. The announcements at WWDC this year gave us more reasons to be excited, with a whole bunch of new capabilities announced. What does this really mean and can I start using this in production tomorrow?
GenAI solves your first line of IT support
CEO of QueryPal, Dev Nag, joins me to talk about creating a more human element in IT support by leveraging GenAI to allow humans to focus on what only humans can do.
Tech Takes: The Struggles with AI and Accounting Software
the hosts discuss their long-standing production schedule and reliance on listener support through Patreon. They share humorous anecdotes and frustrations about everyday tech issues, such as fixing client problems and dealing with insufficient AI-generated messages.
Corpse-eating selfies, and other ways to trick scammers
we speak with Holmes about her experiences online with romance scammers, whether AI is changing online fraud, and why the rules for protection and scam identification have changed in an increasingly advanced, technological world.
🎈Just for Fun
Frame of preference
It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?
Delightful and informative and fun! Take some time for this.