Ed Marczak - Santa is not corporate malware

Ed Marczak joins Mat X and JD to explore why Santa is not corporate malware and how IT and Security teams can help by documenting their processes and educating their users.

Ed Marczak joins Mat X and JD to explore whether the open source project Santa is naughty or nice. We discuss what is “corporate malware” and how IT and Security teams can do their best to empathise with and educate their users.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Ed Marczak. (Web)   (Twitter)

Videos:

MDOYVR 2021 – Henry Stamerjohann – Useful techniques for a successful Santa deployment

MDOYVR 2018 – Matt Doyle – Santa Upvote

MDOYVR 2016 – Allister – Santa

MDOYVR 2017 – Ed Marczak – How to Fail

Links:

Santa project (GitHub)

Santa project documentation

Congrats ⁦@siracusa⁩ (working for yourself is the best!) — it was great to get your thoughts on tools for managing Macs, specifically on “corp malware” AKA Santa open source from Google. #macadmins Using these tools to manage Macs can be nice but it can be rough for users pic.twitter.com/nEDn8dHm9D

— mat x (@macvfx) April 2, 2022

Quote from ATP episode #476

John: "They added an app called Santa that would intercept app launches and tell you if the app was naughty or nice"

Marco: "That's creepy as hell"

John: "It was flagging everything"