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New Check: Missing Device
There are occasions when an enrolled device might stop checking in to the Kolide application. These instances may include users uninstalling the agent, devices that are de-provisioned, or even...
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New Check: macOS Automatic Updates Improperly Configured
We are excited to announce the availability of a new K2 Check called “macOS Automatic Updates Improperly Configured”This check is a companion to our macOS Missing Important Update check which only...
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New Check: Microsoft Windows OS Not Licensed
We are excited to announce another new check and companion Inventory section for Windows, called Microsoft Windows OS Not Licensed. This check looks for all any unlicensed versions of Microsoft...
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Improved Check: Windows Screen Lock Disabled/Insecure
This is a follow-up post to the announcement we made about the macOS Screen Lock Check. In that macOS Check we really dug deep into the spirit of what Screen Lock means beyond just ensuring the setting...
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Upcoming Changes to API Pagination
For everyone building tooling atop our Beta API, we have some upcoming changes to announce! Here is the quick summary:To improve the API’s performance we are changing how pagination worksThe new...
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Improved User Slack Messages
Kolide is excited to announce a significantly improved experience for end-user Slack messages. End-user messages are arguably the most important part of Kolide’s platform. It’s important that the...
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What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz, of Andreessen Horowitz and OpsWare, recently released his followup book to The Hard Things about Hard Things titled What You Do is Who You are. It is a book about creating business...
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New Linux Checks: Gnome Screenlock & Unsupported Ubuntu
Happy October everyone! As part of our commitment to improve Check support on Linux, Kolide is excited to announce the immediate availability of two new Checks for Linux systems.The first is the Ubuntu...
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Introducing the Kolide Slack Home Tab
Kolide recently upgraded its Slack app to take advantage of a new feature called the Home Tab. This new tab allows Slack applications to create a persistent surface where they can display important...
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Improvements Enrolling Personal Devices in Kolide
Many of our customers use Kolide to verify the security of an employee’s personal devices. Thanks to Kolide’s user-friendly stance on privacy, we’ve always been a great solution for the Bring Your Own...
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Three Myths About Honest Security
Today at Kolide, we published our guide to Honest Security. It’s our North Star for Kolide and represents our vision of the future for the endpoint security and device management.Honest Security...
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Notify Admin When Device Comes Online
In Kolide, when a device is offline, you can still enqueue work like Live Queries or Re-Checks so that they run as soon as the device returns. While this is useful, it can be hard to remember to go...
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Native Mac M1 Kolide Agent Now Available!
Happy Holidays, Kolide Members!It has been a little over 5 weeks since Apple announced the M1 based Macs, and while we already have had a number of these devices enroll in Kolide using our intel-based...
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Recently Discovered Evil Chrome Extensions
On December 16th, Threat Intelligence researches from Avast discovered several browser extensions that contained privacy invading malware. Read the press release here. In the press release, Avast...
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Modern Macs Still Need FileVault
If you buy a modern Mac in 2020, it is going to come with a special physical component called the Secure Enclave. This component enables Apple to carry over many popular iOS features which require...
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We Have Updated Our FileVault Mac Check
Until today, Kolide has leveraged Osquery’s disk_encryption table to report the Full Disk Encryption status of macOS in our check labeled “ FileVault2 Primary Disk Encryption”. However, we have...
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Introducing Device Lost Mode - Beta
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of DeviceLost Mode.Like its name implies, Lost Mode is useful if you or the device’s end-user cannot locate their device. Once Lost Mode is enabled...
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Untrusted Extension - the Great Suspender
Making the rounds recently on Twitter was a tweet concerning a popular Chrome Extension, The Great Suspender. The thread outlines an all too common situation. The author of a once beloved Chrome...
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New Check - Silver Sparrow
On February 18th, Red Canary working with MalwareBytes broke the news that they had discovered a latent malware infection is as many as 30,000 Macs. They posted a detailed analysis online and dubbed...
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New Feature - Control Device Data Collection
Kolide’s Inventory feature is designed to collect, enrich, and visualize important data from enrolled devices. We built it to preemptively answer many essential questions administrators have about...
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