MacAdmins Conference 2019 at Penn State : Full Schedule

MacAdmins is the premier East Coast conference for anyone who deploys and manages Macs and iOS devices. We are featuring 69 sessions and seven workshops with top notch speakers in the macOS and iOS deployment community. MacAdmins offers an incredible level of expertise, value, entertainment, and a great opportunity to network with your fellow admins! Visit our website.

9:00am EDT

Swift, Xcode, an App and You

Take some basic Swift skill from creating a Command Line application, to putting a UI on it all in this workshop. Some basic Swift knowledge is all you need, we’ll help you go the rest of the way.

We’ll start by discussing command line applications in Swift and how to make them, including the use of Process() to leverage other shell commands. Then we’ll create a GUI application in Xcode that incorporates your command line tool.

Workshop Details

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Speakers

Josh Wisenbaker

Tuesday July 9, 2019 9:00am - 4:30pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Workshop

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9:00am EDT

Fold, spindle, and mutilate

Network printing, like much of IT, is simple in concept with devilishly difficult details your users will have no problem stumbling over. You've discovered lpadmin and config profiles for installing printers, but what about pushing or locking down features on them? Explore techniques for doing so along with things like discovering AD published printers on not-AD bound Macs and getting the Mac to hunt drivers for a printer hiding behind a server rather than making your users do it.

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Speakers

Joshua See

Campus Technology Support Engineer, UW-River Falls

Head of care and feeding of Mac and iOS devices at a small midwestern university for over a decade, I've watched hardware, software, management tools, and concepts come and go, getting a feel for what works, what doesn't, and that "obsolete" ideas that might work again.

Wednesday July 10, 2019 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Core Intermediate

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10:45am EDT

Breach -> ATT&CK -> Osquery - Learning from breach reports to improve endpoint monitoring

Large breaches like SingHealth's resulted in detailed public reports.
Using those, we will map portions of the attacks to ATT&CK, then see how to monitor for them using qsquery.
Though most of these public reports address breaches that touched Windows environments, we will translate the Windowsness into "what would that same technique look like on Mac?".

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Speakers

Guillaume Ross

Deputy CISO, JupiterOne

@g@irrelephant.coDeputy CISO @ JupiterOne

Wednesday July 10, 2019 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Security Fundamental

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1:30pm EDT

Get in tune with Intune

In this session we will go over the basics of device compliance, registration, and troubleshooting with Microsoft Intune and Jamf Pro for macOS.

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Speakers

Bryce Carlson

Product Manager, Addigy

Bryce's Apple story started in 2002 when his family bought an iMac as a family computer. After working in the Apple EDU space in K12 & Higher Ed. he went on to work in the Apple MDM space; first at Jamf, and he currently is a Product Manager with Addigy.

Shonda Hodge

Sr. Support Engineer, Microsoft

Shonda Hodge is a Senior Support Engineer at Microsoft where she focuses on Microsoft Intune mobile device management solution. Shonda is known as the partner integration subject matter expert for Jamf, Saaswedo DatAlert, Sandblast, SEP Mobile, LookOut, and Cisco ISE. She's also responsible... Read More →

Wednesday July 10, 2019 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Configuration Management Fundamental

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3:15pm EDT

Threat hunting and Malware Analysis on Mac OS X with osquery

In this talk, we share the experience of the Threat Intelligence team at Uptycs, a SaaS EDR solution provider for Mac OS X and Linux cloud workloads based on osquery, in effectively hunting for threats on the Mac OS X platform. An innovative approach to using advanced system monitoring capabilities of osquery instead of an instrumented virtualization environment for analysis and hunting will be described.

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Speakers

Milan Shah

CTO, Uptycs, Inc

Intrusion Detection, Incident Investigation, Threat Hunting, Vuln Mgmt, Compliance, Linux, Containers, OSX

Wednesday July 10, 2019 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Security Intermediate

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9:00am EDT

A Journey From Bugs To SecureTokens

A story about two bug discoveries that led me to a clearer picture about the inner workings of SecureTokens. SecureTokens have been characterized in various ways, but the predominant viewpoint seems to be that they are a pointer.

Speakers

Simon Carlson-Thies

Macintosh SME, mPower

I am a long-time Macintosh consultant and System Administrator. I currently put my skills to work at NIH, providing Macintosh desktop support escalation and desktop engineering services via an IT contractor. In a previous life I spent a significant amount of time as a writer. One... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2019 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Security Intermediate

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10:45am EDT

Hands On with DNS Security

Get familiar with the techniques used to attack and break DNS.

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Speakers

Ben Greisler

Owner, Kadimac Corp

Consultant, training, dad and big believer in our tech community doing well for each other.

Thursday July 11, 2019 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Security Intermediate Hands-on

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1:30pm EDT

Robotic Process Automation: Leveraging Cron, Scripts and Databases for Automating Tasks

(This session will not be recorded.)

Want to eliminate repetitive tasks, free up time for fun projects, feel a sense of achievement, impress bosses/colleagues/family/friends? Then you won't want to miss this presentation! I'll explain key concepts on RPA and how to apply them from your Mac. Warning: This is not a presentation on DevOps automation, but rather just a talk about general task automation via blending of cron jobs, scripts and databases / data sources / REST APIs, etc.

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Speakers

John Duong

Senior Manager, Solutions Architect, Pfizer Inc

John Duong is a proven Business Technology Senior Manager with over 19 years experience and demonstrated history of success working in the pharmaceuticals and defense industries. John has been with Pfizer for the past 3.5 years and now serves as Senior Manager, Solutions Architect... Read More →

Thursday July 11, 2019 1:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

DevOps All Levels

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3:15pm EDT

Fast macOS Management with Chef

A hands-on session where you will learn how to use Chef to manage your macOS machines. We will cover the basics of using API Cookbooks and testing changes.

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Speakers

Nate Walck

Corp Engineering, Stairwell

Nate has been involved in the MacAdmin community and in various open source projects since 2010, including Munki, Puppet and Chef. Nate is the Client Platform Engineering team @ Stairwell and founder of the Mac Admins Open Source organization.

Thursday July 11, 2019 3:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Configuration Management Intermediate Hands-on

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9:00am EDT

Build a Web Application with Swift

We all know Swift is great for writing iOS and macOS end user applications. But did you know that Swift is also great for server side applications as well? In this session we will look at a Swift web application built with the Vapor web framework. Our example application will maintain a list of e-mail addresses and allow you to check the list against the "Have I been pwned" web site for security breaches in which those e-mail addresses may have been exposed.

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Speakers

Steve Goodrich

Software Engineer, Apple Technologies, Ivanti

Steve is an Apple technologies specialist at Ivanti (or as his team like to say iVanti). Steve has been a professional software developer for over 30 years. He has written embedded systems, telecom engineering software, warehouse management systems, and integrated medical practice... Read More →

Friday July 12, 2019 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Development Advanced

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10:45am EDT

Manage Software in Computer Labs on a Budget

Want to manage software on Macs in a shared, computer lab environment, but your resources (budget) are limited? There is an option! This session will cover Munki and other complementary tools that can be used to manage software on your shared macOS lab devices.

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Speakers

Brian Davis

Desktop Engineer, East Carolina University

I have worked in higher education for the past 15 years supporting computer labs on the campus of East Carolina University, with the past 3 years supporting roughly 400 Macs. Apple Certified Mac Technician

Friday July 12, 2019 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
208 215 Innovation Boulevard, State College, PA 16803

Deployment Fundamental

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