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If you were managing Macs in the enterprise fifteen years ago, you weren’t just an IT admin who loved Apple, you were a survivalist. In those days, Apple was often an afterthought in the corporate world, treated as a nuisance by many IT leaders who prioritized Windows and PC deployments. Because we didn’t have massive vendor support or enterprise-grade tools handed to us, the Mac admin community had to build them ourselves. The community wrote scripts, shared knowledge, and built apps. Obviously, today is different. Apple is quickly becoming the default endpoint for enterprises. The community effort hasn’t stopped, though. Another app showed up on my radar recently, and it’s a prime example of the Mac admins community at work. Let’s look at M.A.C.E.
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About Apple @ Work: Bradley Chambers managed an enterprise IT network from 2009 to 2021. Through his experience deploying and managing firewalls, switches, a mobile device management system, enterprise grade Wi-Fi, 1000s of Macs, and 1000s of iPads, Bradley will highlight ways in which Apple IT managers deploy Apple devices, build networks to support them, train users, stories from the trenches of IT management, and ways Apple could improve its products for IT departments.
As security requirements have tightened in this era of computing, deploying compliance benchmarks like CIS or NIST has become a significant focus for IT admins. M.A.C.E. simplifies the complexity of these government standards by wrapping them into a usable, open-source tool that any IT team can deploy.
What is the macOS Security Compliance Project?
The macOS Security Compliance Project is an open-source initiative that offers a programmatic approach to generating security guidance. It doesn’t just give you a PDF to read. It generates customized documentation, remediation scripts, configuration profiles, and audit checklists tailored to your specific baseline requirements. It is authoritative because it is recommended by NIST Special Publication 800-219.
This project is a joint effort between federal IT security staff and volunteers from organizations like NIST, NASA, the US Navy, and the Center for Internet Security. Apple even covers it on its Apple support website. The project uses a set of tested controls for macOS and maps them against supported security guides. Your team can use it as a resource to easily create customized security baselines by leveraging a library of validated configuration settings. These baselines produce the actual content you need to load into your management tools to achieve compliance.
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How M.A.C.E. works
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