How do you allow Macbooks in your environment? Our Marketing team requires them for the nature of their work, but IT has been reticent. I suggested leaving Macbooks off network entirely, but we still need efficient file share option and/or VPN access. What solutions have you employed?
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Mission Diplomatic Technology Officer in Governmenta year ago
We do, about 5% of our 100,000 users are on MacBooks.SVP of Marketing in Bankinga year ago
How did you mitigate any infosec concerns?
Mission Diplomatic Technology Officer in Governmenta year ago
A blend of security tools and network isolations. Multiple networks, the least secure has browsing, but application access is through MFA either Microsoft or Okta with a card. Microsoft or Okta mfa depending on sought resources.
The Mac experience does not have parity to the windows experience, but supports necessary missions of the work.
Senior Director, Technology Solutions and Analytics in Telecommunicationa year ago
We have several Macs among our fleet of laptops as well. I'd recommend you look into a Mac MDM that works within your Microsoft Ecosystem. If you have Microsft Intune there is a MacOS client, there is also Jamf but I haven't used that in years. Leader of Domain and Enterprise Architecture in Retaila year ago
We have a large percentage of users in the US on MacBooks esp. for online, marketing, and others including myself. We use Jamf to manage, CISCO Anyconnect, and Intune. It works quite nicely for me and I'm on the Apple M1 Max chip.Principle Consultant in IT Servicesa year ago
We allow resources to pick the device that helps them do their job. Many of our sales personal and engineers use Macbooks. We have added several tools to help secure the environment, like Intune, Crowdstrike, and Manage Engine.Senior IT Manager in Governmenta year ago
Properly configured and administered, the Mac OS can be as secure, if not more secure, than the Windows Platform. We offer our user community a choice of either Mac or Windows as their primary device - finding it best to let people use the tool that works best of them. Properly configured and administered, the Mac OS can be as secure, if not more secure, than the Windows Platform. Through Apple Business Manager, our Mac laptops are all firmware tied to our organizational ID, so they will look to our JAMF instance to reimage remotely even if they're stolen and wiped clean. We use JAMF to manage our MacBook fleet and Maas360 to manage our Windows machines.