Jamf After Dark

AI-native workforce security is how Amplifier Security and Jamf close the gap between security policy and employee action, without slowing anyone down.

In this episode of Jamf After Dark, hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton talk with Shreyas Sadalgi (Co-Founder & CEO) and Thomas Donnelly (Co-Founder & CTO) of Amplifier Security. Their AI agent AMP works alongside Jamf Pro, Jamf Protect, and Jamf Security Cloud to engage employees directly in Slack and Microsoft Teams, resolving vulnerabilities, standardizing operating systems, and supporting Jamf AI governance, without the friction of top-down enforcement.

Meet the Guests:

- Shreyas Sadalgi, Co-Founder & CEO, Amplifier Security https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreyassadalgi
- Thomas Donnelly, Co-Founder & CTO, Amplifier Security https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasdonnelly12

*CHAPTERS:*
0:00 Introduction: Meet the Jamf After Dark Hosts and Guests
3:55 What Is Amplifier Security? Solving the Workforce Security Gap
5:46 AI-Driven Cyberattacks and the Human-Speed Security Problem
7:15 Partnering With Employees Instead of Enforcing Security
9:07 Meet AMP: Amplifier's AI Security Agent
10:51 Customer Wins: OS Standardization and Vulnerability Management
16:46 How Amplifier Stands Out From Homegrown Security Tools
18:47 Amplifier and Jamf: Integrating APIs and AI Governance
21:16 The Combined Value of Jamf and Amplifier Security
23:53 Agentic AI: What's New for Amplifier This Year
28:33 JNUC 2026 Preview and Amplifier's Free Jamf Offer
30:36 Case Study: Securing a Distributed Shipping Company's Fleet
35:10 Real ROI: Faster Updates and Fewer Vulnerabilities

*What You'll Learn:*

- Why workforce security breaks down at *human speed* while AI-driven attacks move at machine speed
- How AMP uses Jamf Pro smart groups and device data to have real, contextual conversations with employees about fixes — instead of just sending tickets
- Real customer results: fleet updates 70% faster, vulnerability counts dropping from hundreds of thousands to single digits, and training compliance rising from 75% to 98.5%

Resources Mentioned:

Amplifier Security https://www.amplifiersecurity.com
Jamf Support https://www.jamf.com/support

#AmplifierSecurity #Jamf #AIGovernance #EndpointSecurity #WorkforceSecurity @AmplifierSecurity

JNUC 2026 moved to September and runs Wednesday to Friday for the first time. The two people who organize it explain what else changed.

Join JNUC 2026! September 23–25 Kansas City https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2026/overview/

Jeff Ovik runs JNUC registration. Kelsey Dahl builds the session catalog. Hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton work through the questions people send in every year.

Before you commit: you don't have to be a Jamf customer to attend. Your pass covers breakfast, lunch and the Jamf Nation party, and the registration site has a Convince Your Boss letter you can adapt if you need approval to travel. All the conference hotels sit within a short walk of the convention center, and Kansas City was chosen partly because a large share of attendees can reach it in a three-hour drive or less.

Once you're there: breakout sessions run 45 minutes, with 10 to 15 minutes held back for questions. Every session is tagged 100, 200 or 300 so you can judge the depth before you walk in, and most sit at 200. The Focus Tracks page groups sessions by topic and includes an Intro to Jamf track if this is your first year. The 2026 catalog covers AI governance, platform APIs and Terraform, platform single sign-on (PSSO), declarative device management (DDM), Blueprints, Self Service+, Jamf Parent and Jamf School.

*Things are new this year:*

- AI session summaries appear in the session catalog as soon as a session ends, so a session you had to skip isn't lost.
- The sessions expected to draw the biggest crowds move into larger rooms, called super session rooms.
- Brain Dates are back as well: small-group conversations on a topic you choose, booked ahead of time and held in the exhibit hall.

*CHAPTERS:*
0:00 Welcome: JNUC 2026 in Kansas City
1:45 Meet Jeff Ovik and Kelsey Dahl
3:33 What's New: Sept 23–25, Wed to Fri
6:44 Why Attend: Community and Hallway Track
9:16 Why Kansas City? Location and Barbecue
11:51 Which JNUC Hotel to Book
12:25 Do You Have to Be a Jamf Customer?
13:49 Brain Dates Explained
16:22 Level Up Workshops: Two Options
18:07 Cost, ROI and Convince Your Boss
25:00 Global Partner Summit Tracks
26:15 Session Lineup: AI, PSSO, DDM, APIs
27:10 New: AI Session Summaries
28:52 Keynote, State of the Union, Super Sessions
30:20 Session Levels 100–300 and Focus Tracks
33:17 Jamf Nation Party at CPKC Stadium
38:03 How to Register for JNUC 2026

#Jnuc #Jamf #Jnuc2026 #Macadmin #Apple

Most security teams know Windows inside out, but not macOS. Beacon by Jamf Threat Labs hunts the Mac malware and attacker activity your team misses.

In this episode of Jamf After Dark, hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton talk with Jaron Bradley, Director of Jamf Threat Labs, about the state of the macOS threat landscape in 2026, and a new service that brings dedicated Mac threat hunting to your environment. If you run a Mac fleet and your team's expertise is mostly Windows or Linux, this one's for you.

What You'll Learn:
- Why macOS is now a real target: info stealers, malicious search ads, and fake app installers
- How Jamf Threat Labs researches malware like GhostClaw and builds detections into Jamf Protect
- What Beacon is, how telemetry feeds the hunt, and why human analysts review every alert
- Why dedicated macOS expertise matters when Windows-first tools fall short on Mac

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Mac Threats and the Jamf After Dark Crew
1:21 Meet Jaron Bradley: From Incident Response to macOS Threat Hunting
4:15 What Is Jamf Threat Labs? Team, Research and Mission
6:51 The State of the macOS Threat Landscape
7:33 Why Mac Is a Growing Target: Info Stealers and Malicious Ads
9:24 How AI Is Changing Both Attack and Defense
11:40 Jamf Threat Labs Research: GhostClaw, Predator and the Aftermath Tool
13:57 Jamf Protect and MI:RIAM: Real-Time Mac and Mobile Detection
14:43 How Attackers Masquerade Malware on macOS (DPRK Tactics)
17:21 Introducing Beacon by Jamf Threat Labs: What It Is and How It Works
19:37 Why Beacon Exists: macOS Threat Hunting as a Service
25:05 What to Expect as a Beacon Customer: Alerts, Detections and Reports
28:00 Real-World Story: Catching APT Activity on a Mac Fleet
29:25 How to Get Started with Beacon
30:47 Wrap-Up and Credits

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Who This Video Is For:
- Endpoint security specialists and SecOps analysts responsible for macOS compliance and detection
- Security stakeholders and CISOs building or scaling a Mac security program
- IT and security teams whose strength is Windows or Linux but who now manage a growing Mac fleet

Resources Mentioned:
- Beacon by Jamf Threat Labs: jamf.com/blog/beacon-jamf-threat-labs-mac-threat-hunting-service/
- Jamf Threat Labs: jamf.com/threat-labs/
- Jamf Protect: jamf.com/products/jamf-protect/
- Jamf Threat Labs on GhostClaw/GhostLoader: jamf.com/blog/ghostclaw-ghostloader-malware-github-repositories-ai-workflows/

Jamf After Dark is a podcast from Jamf. Reach us at info@jamf.com with the subject line "attention to the podcast."

#macsecurity #endpointsecurity #applesecurity #threatdetection #siem #endpointprotection #threathunting #Jamf

Travis County's Senior Systems Engineer explains why his team migrated 1,900+ Apple devices back to Jamf after trying a competing MDM, and how Jamf tools caught phishing test emails before users ever saw them.

Billy Roberts manages endpoints for Travis County government in Austin, Texas, a hybrid environment with 6,900 Windows devices and nearly 2,000 Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers. In this episode of Jamf After Dark, Billy shares why they left Jamf, what went wrong with their previous MDM, and what brought them back. He also walks through how Jamf Trust quarantined phishing emails before users could even open them, and how Jamf Security Center's detailed app reports eliminated the manual research from their technology assessment program.
🎙️ Jamf After Dark, a podcast from Jamf introducing you to the people, products, and stories behind Apple device management and security. Hosted by Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton.

What You'll Learn:
Why Travis County chose Jamf over a UEM for Apple device management
How Jamf Pro responds to configuration changes instantly compared to hours on a competing MDM
How Jamf caught internal phishing test emails before users could see them
How Jamf Security Center's app reports cut their technology assessment timeline by a third

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Resources:
MDM Migration Checklist https://www.jamf.com/blog/mdm-migration-checklist/
Jamf Pro https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/
Jamf Protect https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-protect/

One K12 school was blocking roughly 1,000 phishing attacks per day, and had no idea it was happening. EDU Buying season is here, and security, classroom tools, parent controls, and teacher adoption all need answers before a single device gets ordered.

Mat Pullen, Jamf's Product Marketing Director for Education and a former classroom teacher, joins hosts Kat Garbis and Josh Thornton for a frank conversation about what K12 schools are dealing with in 2026.
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*CHAPTERS:*
1:51 Meet Mat Pullen: Product Marketing Director for Education at Jamf
2:51 Jamf Nation Live EDU: What Schools Are Actually Asking About
4:22 Top K12 Challenges in 2026: Budget, Security and Screen Time
6:57 Why Schools Are Easy Targets for Cyber Attacks
8:10 Student Privacy vs. Surveillance: How Jamf Balances Both
10:03 Jamf Parent: Giving Families Control of School Devices at Home
12:42 Technology in the Classroom Is an Education Problem, Not an IT Problem
14:58 MacBook Neo for K12: What It Changes for Schools on a Budget
20:05 Jamf Safe Internet: Content Filtering and Network Threat Prevention
22:12 Limited Privacy and Time-Based Policies: New Features Explained
25:58 Jamf for K12: One Solution for IT, Security, Teachers and Parents
29:05 Jamf Teacher in Action
31:46 K12 Buying Season 2026: How to Think Beyond the Device
37:23 Here's What Most Schools Are Missing