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Lost Mode Now Available on Linux Devices
Early in January, we introduced Lost Mode for Mac, a beta feature in which the security team and end-users can work together to locate a device that was either misplaced or stolen. We are now excited...
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Phishing Your Own Employees With COVID-19 Lures Is Evil
This essay is a part of the honest.security initiative at Kolide. Our organization does not offer phishing training products or services.The COVID-19 vaccine roll-out plods forward. A few more drops of...
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The New Global Failures View
You may have recently noticed a new top-level navigation option, Failures, in Kolide. We’d love to take a few minutes to walk you through this new Failures view, along with other improvements we made...
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Location Services Check & Inventory
In the new Osquery 4.7.0 release (which is now automatically distributing to all of our customers), we contributed a new macOS table called Location Services. This table simply determines the status of...
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New Check: Windows Important Updates Missing
After many weeks of research and engineering, we at Kolide are very proud to announce the immediate availability of several new Windows-based features:Device Check : Windows Important Updates...
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Lost Mode Now Available on Windows Devices
Earlier this year, we introduced Lost Mode for Mac and Lost Mode for Linux, features that enable the IT team and end-users to work together to locate a misplaced or stolen device. Today, we are excited...
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Osquery 4.7.0 Inventory Improvements
Recently, the Kolide change-log has been bursting at the seams with improvements and new features, and while it’s been fun bringing good news and cheer to you all on a near-daily basis, enough is...
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New Feature - Add Your Own Device Notes
While Kolide can collect and visualize a lot of useful information from the devices themselves, sometimes, the most useful pieces of data about a device can come from the people who oversee them.To...
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Query Runbook and Privacy Center Enhancements
As part of our commitment to honest.security, I am so excited to announce some major changes to our end-user accessible Privacy Center, which just went live.We had two big goals with this feature.The...
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Privacy Center - Detailed Checks and More
A few weeks ago, we announced a major set of improvements to our Privacy Center. These changes give end-users an unprecedented level of transparency into what data is collected from their devices so...
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New Slack App Access Control Setting
Kolide’s Slack app enables end-users to identify and self-resolve important issues on their device. Our Slack app has always been a major part of our Honest Security strategy, so it’s important we...
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New Inventory: Mac Startup Configuration
Have you ever wondered if a Mac had an EFI firmware password set or if Secure Boot has been turned off? Well, instead of wondering, you can now instantly look up the state of these options and other...
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API - New Global Failures Endpoints
In March, we introduced a new global failures view to Kolide. This view makes it much easier for administrators to locate failures without clicking into a specific Check.Since releasing this feature,...
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New Slack Option - Skip Personal Device Enrollment
A few weeks ago, we introduced a new dedicated options screen for managing the behavior of Kolide’s Slack App. This week, we added a new option to this screen for organizations that do not want their...
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Introducing Live Refresh
At Kolide, we do our best to strike a healthy balance between the performance impact of our agent and the usefulness of the data we collect in the UI. In practice, this means we optimize every query to...
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Two Years at Kolide — Creating a New Privacy Standard for Endpoint Security
On May 22nd, 2019, I posted an article on this blog entitled, “Kolide — User Focused Security for Teams That Slack.” The post was more than just an announcement for our K2 SaaS product; it was a...
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Kolide Side Dishes
At Kolide, we typically ship changes and improvements to the product multiple times a day. The vast majority of these changes are modest improvements not worthy of their own change-log post, but...
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Customize the Privacy Center
We hope you are enjoying your summer (or winter for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere). We’ve been working hard on our end on a slew of changes to Kolide’s Privacy Center. These new features are...
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New: Slack Notification Grace Period
Today, when a device fails a Check, Kolide immediately schedules a Slack message to be sent to an end-user during their next notification window (the next weekday afternoon in their local time).For...
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More Slack App Improvements and Settings
As a follow-up to our grace period announcement yesterday, we are excited to share more big improvements to the Kolide Slack app.Failure Summary OptionsKolide only sends a failure summary to end-users...
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