Jamf After Dark

Co-hosts Kat Garbis and Sean Rabbitt are joined by Suraj Mohandas (Vice President of Product Strategy), Emily McRoberts-Froese (Sr. Education Leadership Executive), and John Wetter (Director of Technology & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools) to discuss the current landscape for admins supporting K-12 . Meet John Wetter, an IT Professional, Jamf customer, and public speaker out of Minneapolis, joins the Jamf team to discuss the current changes and evolution of supporting K-12, including security, privacy, budget, AI initiatives and more. The team leans on Wetter's experience to understand how they are navigating cyber and physical threats in K-12 schools, best practices in identity, if AI has a place in education, and advice to other IT professionals in the K-12 space.

Jamf has been around since the very beginning of Apple MDM. Since then, there are so many other options to choose from; UEMs and other Apple-only options have entered the market place. IT Admins and corporate technology consumers are continuously evaluating their infrastructure and existing set ups. With so many other options - the question begs, why Jamf?Kat and Sean unpack this with Jamf's Liz Benz (Chief Sales Officer), Beth Tschida (Chief Technology Officer), and Veronica Batista Bernard (Director, Product Marketing - Market Intelligence). The team walks through trends they see of why existing customers and prospective customers choose Jamf, takeaways from JNUC, and why they personally would select Jamf. The team covers areas from cost efficiencies, compliance, all the way up to mobile security and integrations. Then, a sneak peek of what to expect in 2025 and a tech tip from Sean.

Join our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis as they meet with two Senior Consulting Engineers, Timothy Knox and Jonathan Yuresko. Learn how they're addressing challenges with innovative mobile device solutions across various industries, including some that have contributed to Jamf securing patents related to mobility. From hotel workflows, medical, retail, and education, to airline support, and oil rigs, our co-hosts and guests take a peek into how customers can work with Jamf to solve technology problems that may not currently hold present-day answers. They even divulge in some of the exciting areas around tvOS and Vision ProOS.

Our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis invite along Aaron Webb (Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Security), and Suraj Mohandas (VP of Product Strategy) to discuss the new exciting announcements at WWDC 2024. They discuss the pros and cons of Ai, updates and areas to consider for security in Sequoia, as well exciting highlights and potential use cases from the announcements. Edited by: Merlin Gulick

Join our co-hosts Sean Rabbitt and Kat Garbis to unpack a common theme "good enough." With guests Marcus Ransom and Kyle Randall (Jamf Solution Engineers), unpack when "good enough is good enough" and when it is problematic.The team talks through real life scenarios about where they have found good enough to be good enough, but also problematic in the long run.Important findings are that some folks, often don't realize there are other options and are going off limited knowledge. That leveraging a subject matter expert could be beneficial in making things more secure and streamlined in the long-run with less issues along the way.The team also discusses ways they have consulted in better ways and approaches to improving technology environments as well as risks of not keeping technology best practices current.The team closes out with asking "what kind of work do you want to do?" as no matter what, whether ripping out an out-of-date frame work requires some upfront time investment, but so does a critical problem down the road.Sean unveils the latest technology tip at the end.

In the latest episode of the Jamf After Dark Podcast, we interview Sam Johnson. Sam has been with Jamf about as long as anyone and he clues us in on some of the early wins and misses (like having to go by an assumed name due to a bad business card run). Sam is one of our favorite Jamfs and we hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed creating it!

Join us to hear from Beth Tschida. In this episode we talk about the evolving software engineering organization here at Jamf, how that's changing and a little about what you might expect from us in the future!