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Secure Software, Secure Career: How I Passed the CSSLP
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Secure Software, Secure Career: How I Passed the CSSLP

After passing the CISSP earlier this year, I decided to follow it up with the **Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)** certification. For those unfamiliar, CSSLP is an ISC2 certification that focuses specifically on secure software development practices across the full SDLC—from requirements and design to coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. My goal in pursuing this certification was to further develop my skills in ensuring the security of software throughout its entire lifecycle.

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Ensuring Jamf Trust VPN Stays Connected with Jamf Pro
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Ensuring Jamf Trust VPN Stays Connected with Jamf Pro

Keeping your organization's VPN always connected is crucial—especially with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) frameworks like **Jamf Trust**. One of the challenges with **Jamf Trust** is that it does *not* automatically open or reconnect on startup or login by default. However, with a combination of Jamf Pro policies, a custom script, and an extension attribute, you can ensure your users stay securely connected at all times, even when their devices are restarted or logged out. This setup helps maintain continuous access to network resources while adhering to the security standards...

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Troubleshooting Standard Routing Policies in JAMF Security Cloud
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Troubleshooting Standard Routing Policies in JAMF Security Cloud

As a fairly new administrator of JAMF Security Cloud, it was the ease of which its administration that admittedly drew me in. Quite an elegant solution for securing the various apps on business workstations with premade app-based VPN routing rules built right in, I was hooked. The concept is simple: turn on the policies, create your enrollment, and deploy – and you're done. This straightforward approach has made it easy to integrate into our existing workflow, allowing us to focus on more critical tasks.

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What Really Makes A Great IT Support Technician?
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What Really Makes A Great IT Support Technician?

I started thinking about what it means to be a great IT technician. As one of my now roles, IT technician was thrust upon me, among other things, by choice. Primarily because I enjoy it, and so it got me thinking, why do I love it so much? Over the years I have worn the hat of support specialist, web developer, IT manager, IT director, and CEO. I am now the information systems security officer but not matter how hard I try, the pull, and draw of troubleshooting issues pulls...

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Lessons Learned: Scale without the burnout. Lessons learned from an IT Entrepreneur on how to build an ideal, converting, MSP in 2025
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Lessons Learned: Scale without the burnout. Lessons learned from an IT Entrepreneur on how to build an ideal, converting, MSP in 2025

I’ve written about how I’d build an MSP from scratch in 2024. I followed that up with what I’d do differently in 2025 after a few more battle scars. Now, as I reflect on the way this space keeps evolving, I think it’s time to talk about scale—and more specifically, how not to lose your mind while scaling. It's an area where many MSPs struggle, and I'm no exception.

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Enrolling M1-M4 Devices into Automox with JAMF with secure tokens
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Enrolling M1-M4 Devices into Automox with JAMF with secure tokens

Managing Secure Tokens on macOS has long been a challenge for administrators using JAMF and Automox. In my previous post, Managing the macOS Secure Token with JAMF Pro, I discussed a script-based approach to grant Secure Tokens to additional users. However, this method required administrators to manually pass usernames and passwords into the JAMF configuration—an approach that, while effective, was not ideal from a security or usability perspective. This manual process introduced unnecessary risks and added complexity to the overall management of Secure Tokens.

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ABM Warranty 0.5.0
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ABM Warranty 0.5.0

ABM Warranty 0.5.0 expands the platform with tenant-aware desktop widgets and notifications, giving teams clear, real-time visibility into fleet health, expiring coverage, and devices requiring attention across ABM/ASM environments. This release introduces a powerful CLI for managing notifications and sync workflows, alongside a new job-based architecture with chunking, sync history tracking, and an enterprise sync mode designed to scale with large device fleets. Additional enhancements include API credential rotation for security-conscious organizations, notification muting for known exceptions, forward-compatible database migration paths, and full localization support across 10 languages for global...

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Running Image Generation Locally on macOS with Draw Things (2026)
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Running Image Generation Locally on macOS with Draw Things (2026)

Local LLMs have rapidly evolved beyond text and are now capable of producing high-quality images directly on-device. For users running Apple Silicon machines—especially M-series Mac Studios and MacBook Pros—this represents a major shift in what’s possible without relying on cloud services. Just a few years ago, image generation required powerful remote GPUs, subscriptions, and long processing times. Today, thanks to optimized models and Apple’s Metal acceleration, you can generate and edit images locally with impressive speed and quality. The result is a workflow that is faster, private, and entirely under...

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Wrap-Up and Beta
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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Wrap-Up and Beta

In this final ABM Warranty 0.4.1 walkthrough, I’m wrapping up the last features I had not covered directly in the earlier videos and then focusing on support, community, and the beta program. I also want to show where the support resources live inside the app so you know where to go if you need help, documentation, or a way to send useful feedback. Additionally, I'll be covering some of the key features that were updated since the previous version, including any bug fixes or improvements made to existing functionality.

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Managed Preferences
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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Managed Preferences

In this part of the ABM Warranty 0.4.1 walkthrough series, I'm focusing on managed preferences and the credential packaging workflow. In the last video, I covered multiple credentials inside the app itself. In this one, I'm showing how to package those credentials so they can be deployed securely through MDM. This process is a crucial step in ensuring that your credentials are properly configured and protected within your organization's mobile device management system.

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Low Profile Walkthrough and Review
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Low Profile Walkthrough and Review

Today I’m walking through Low Profile, a utility from Nindi Gill that I use when I want to inspect profiles already installed on a Mac and figure out whether those profiles contain issues I need to clean up. The value is that Low Profile gives me a straightforward way to inspect profiles installed on any Mac. This simplicity makes it easy for me to identify and address potential problems, which is especially useful when working with multiple machines or troubleshooting complex profile configurations.

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Multiple Credentials
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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Multiple Credentials

In this part of the ABM Warranty 0.4.1 walkthrough series, I’m focusing on multiple credentials. In the first video, I showed the basic setup and how to add a single credential. Now, I want to explore what happens when I remove a credential, what changes occur when I add more than one, and how the app behaves once there are multiple contexts in play. This will help clarify any potential issues or inconsistencies that may arise with multiple credentials.

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Introduction
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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Introduction

In this first ABM Warranty 0.4.1 walkthrough, I want to show you what the app actually does before I get into the more specific feature videos. This is the broad introduction. I’m walking through the dashboard, how I think about the warranty cards, how released devices are handled, how the filters work, how to add credentials, where the data is stored locally, and what the logging and security model looks like.

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1
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ABM Warranty 0.4.1

The 0.4.x release series for ABM Warranty is focused on operational scale. The earlier 0.3 releases were about trust, correctness, and stabilizing the foundation. Version 0.4.1 builds directly on that work by making the app more practical for consultants, internal IT teams, and managed service providers who need to support multiple environments without losing isolation, control, or visibility. This includes improvements to user interface and workflow, as well as enhanced reporting capabilities to help these users manage their workflows more efficiently.

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Apple’s WWDC26 AI Story Is About Control, Not Just Models
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Apple’s WWDC26 AI Story Is About Control, Not Just Models

Apple’s WWDC26 special presentation on Apple Intelligence and Xcode was less about adding a chat box to developer tools and more about making AI part of the platform boundary. Xcode agents, App Intents, Foundation Models, Core AI, and MLX all point toward the same idea: intelligent features need context, permissions, testing, and clear ownership before they belong in production software.

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Wrap-Up and Beta
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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Wrap-Up and Beta

In this final ABM Warranty 0.4.1 walkthrough, I’m wrapping up the last features I had not covered directly in the earlier videos and then focusing on support, community, and the beta program. I also want to show where the support resources live inside the app so you know where to go if you need help, documentation, or a way to send useful feedback. Additionally, I'll be covering some of the key features that were updated since the previous version, including any bug fixes or improvements made to existing functionality.

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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Managed Preferences
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ABM Warranty 0.4.1 Walkthrough: Managed Preferences

In this part of the ABM Warranty 0.4.1 walkthrough series, I'm focusing on managed preferences and the credential packaging workflow. In the last video, I covered multiple credentials inside the app itself. In this one, I'm showing how to package those credentials so they can be deployed securely through MDM. This process is a crucial step in ensuring that your credentials are properly configured and protected within your organization's mobile device management system.

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QuickPKG - More to Unpack
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QuickPKG - More to Unpack

A few days ago I released a review of QuickPKG, a tool I love and use almost daily. What I really love about packaging and QuickPKG is that no matter what Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution I'm working with at any given moment, it provides a universal way to create a quick package to import into JAMF, Mosyle, or any MDM. This consistency is particularly valuable when switching between projects or environments, as the process remains the same regardless of the specific MDM being used.

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