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EP 5: Jesse Peterson: Open source communities for better MDM and career growth.

Jesse Peterson is a Client Platform Engineer for Meta, contributor to MicroMDM, and creator of NanoMDM. In today’s episode, we talk with Jesse about how he’s used his involvement in open source communities to develop better MDM tools and experience career growth. Listen now to learn how your organization can build a better device management strategy.
Show Notes:
Jesse’s background and how he got involved with Client Platform Engineering
Recognizing value adds of open source with MDM software
The significance of getting involved with communities, like MacAdmins, and how they lead to career development.
What led to the creation of MicroMDM and NanoMDM
How to overcome the challenges of a Client Platform Engineer 
His top three pieces of advice for organizations working on building out their device management strategy
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EP 4: Nick Anderson: endpoint security for osquery

Nick Anderson is a security engineer at Meta, and a member of the osquery technical steering committee. In today’s episode we talk with him about how he overcame the challenges of endpoint security using osquery. Listen in to learn how your organization can best secure its endpoint computing devices. 
Topics discussed:
Nick’s background in cybersecurity and how he got involved with osquery 
The biggest challenges of osquery on windows 
What excites Nick about being a part of the technical steering committee for osquery 
Monitoring and securing various endpoints 
How mobile devices change endpoint security strategies 
His top 3 pieces of advice for managing and securing computing devices
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EP 3: Chris Long: From osquery skeptic to believer

Chris Long is a Staff Security Engineer at Material Security, and you might know him from some of his open-source work at Detection Lab. In the episode today, we talk about his work with Facebook and Uber using osquery, and his thoughts on the present and future state of cybersecurity. 
Topics discussed:
Chris’s story and how he got into cybersecurity 
The day-to-day of a Staff Security Engineer 
How Chris used osquery while he worked at Facebook 
The benefits and power of osquery 
How Chris went from an osquery skeptic to seeing the strengths 
Why Chris started DetectionLab and how it helps security professionals 
Top tips for device management and security strategy for organizations 
Biggest challenges organizations face related to security today 
Changes we can expect to see in cybersecurity over the coming years
Where to Get in Touch
Find Chris on LinkedIn
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EP 2: Prima Virani: Improving endpoint monitoring and visibility with osquery

In today’s episode of the Future of Device Management podcast, we speak with Prima Virani— Detection & Response Engineering Lead at Twilio. 
Topics discussed:
- Prima’s journey into cybersecurity and what initially made her so excited about the industry. 
- What Prima’s day-to-day looks like leading detection and response engineering at an organization with nearly 9,000 employees. 
- Lessons from deploying Fleet and why Prima’s team decided to host it entirely on an EKS cluster. 
- Why endpoint visibility is an essential building block for the success of any detection and response team. 
- How to think about container security. 
- Prima’s top advice for teams building an endpoint detection and response strategy.  
 
Resources mentioned:  
Blog post Prima wrote - Hosting FleetDM on AWS EKS 
Book that Zach mentioned - Container Security: Fundamental Technology Concepts that Protect Containerized Applications 1st Edition
Where to get in touch: 
Follow Prima on Twitter
Follow Prima on Linkedin 
 
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EP 1: Mike Arpaia: The story behind the creation of osquery

In today’s episode of the Future of Device Management podcast, we speak with Mike Arpaia — co-creator and visionary of osquery and partner at Moonfire Ventures — a London-based VC firm focused on seed-stage investing in Europe. 
Topics discussed:
Mike’s journey from a software engineer focused on security problems to a venture capitalist investing in leading startups. 
How a macOS compromise while working at Etsy led Mike to realize how little visibility organizations have into their Mac fleets. 
What motivated Mike and his co-creators to build an open-source project — and how they got management buy-in at Facebook.  
The tipping point where osquery began to gain traction with engineers at leading organizations. 
How it feels to see osquery continue to grow and evolve. 
Mike’s #1 piece of advice for those embarking on a journey of trying to understand what’s going on in the systems they manage.
Where to get in touch: 
Follow Mike on Twitter 
Visit Mike’s personal website
 
Try FleetFleet makes it easy to get accurate, actionable data from all your endpoints. From full disk encryption to healthy antivirus software and any query in between. See for yourself. Sign up for Fleet Sandbox for free today:https://fleetdm.com/try-fleet/register.