Exploring the Future of Homebrew and Workbrew in Mac Administration

The team at Workbrew has been focused on getting into full production, and they’ve gotten a huge head of steam going in 2024. They’re with us today to talk about SBOMs - Software Bill of Materials - and security in your work environments. Patching remains a really integral part of doing Mac Admin work right, and this critical concept is one we’re going deep on.

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
• Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom

Guests:

• John Britton, Workbrew - LinkedIn
• Mike McQuaid, Workbrew - LinkedIn

Links:

• https://www.cisa.gov/sbom
• https://workbrew.com/macadmins
• PSU MacAdmins workbrew sessions (Marcus to add)
  • https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-psu-2024-session-homebrew-balancing-the-needs-of-it-security-and-engineering-teams-at-scale
  • https://workbrew.com/media/macadmins-conference-2024-session-workbrew-a-deep-dive-into-the-enterprise-software-delivery-platform
• pcpartpicker.com
  • https://pcpartpicker.com/user/mikemcquaid/saved/#view=7gjtWZ Mike’s PC :D 
• https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/dotfiles/blob/main/Brewfile Mike’s Brewfile
• https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle Homebrew Bundle/Brewfiles

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• Kandji
• 1Password
• iMazing
• Smallstep
• Watchman Monitoring

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