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Announcing Kolide's $17MM Series B
Kolide is announcing a $17MM Series B led by end-user focused VC OpenView. This major milestone validates one of the biggest bets in the security industry, that all employees should be an active part...
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How to Find a Mac's Manufacture Date Using Osquery
Dozens of websites exist to retrieve the manufacturing date for an Apple device, but many use external API calls and almost all require you to submit only one serial at a time.Thankfully, you can...
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New Inventory: Safari Extensions
Up until today, Kolide has not attempted to collect Safari Extensions. Osquery’s built-in support has been broken since Safari 11, and with the extension API story still shaking out on the Apple side,...
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What Is Honest Security and Why Is It Important
In an ideal world, employees would work closely with IT folks to ensure the security of their devices. But in reality, there’s often animosity between security teams and end-users. The lack of trust...
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New: Custom Slack Messages for Checks
At Kolide, we encourage our customers to entrust their users with the responsibility of keeping their devices secure and compliant. If you can communicate honestly and concisely with people about...
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What You Need to Know About ISO 27000 Standards
The Wild West era of data privacy and cybersecurity is coming to an end. The public has soured on companies (including Big Tech) that scooped up their personal data and then failed to protect it from...
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Why You Can't Trust Your NULLs in Osquery
A basic assumption of nearly any database is that the absence of data in a table is recorded as NULL. This fundamental principle guides many of the approaches an individual would take to querying the...
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New Inventory: Microsoft Office Add-Ins
As part of our mission to provide world-class ground truth about devices enrolled in Kolide, I am excited to announce the latest addition to Inventory, Microsoft Office Add-Ins.Why List Microsoft...
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We've Renamed Failures to Issues
Summary: We have switched UI, Slack App, Web URLs, and API endpoints to use the word “Issue” instead of the word “Failure.” Any existing APIs endpoints and properties using the term “Failure” will...
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Support for the New M1 MacBook Pros
Know some lucky ducks 🦆 in your company that happened to get their hands on one of the new M1 MacBook Pros this week? Well, we just got a few in at Kolide and we couldn’t wait to add first-class...
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Configure Multiple Checks at Once!
Happy Monday everyone! We are starting this week off with several key improvements to the Checks section of the app. Check it out!Mass-Actions for ChecksKolide’s checks page just got a lot easier to...
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Kolide's 30 Line Rails Multi-Tenant Strategy
When engineering a new SaaS app, how you plan to handle customer data tenancy is usually one of the first decisions you and your team will need to make. If you are writing a Rails app and decide on a...
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Honest Security: One Year Later
On December 8th, 2020, we published our honest.security guide. Now, exactly one year later, I thought it would be nice to reflect on everything we’ve learned since publishing the guide, how other...
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How to Deal With Dates and Times in Osquery
If someone told you they wanted to meet up for drinks at 1634656080, you might question your choice of friends. Yet, this is precisely the type of response you would get if you asked osquery when a...
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The Humans Behind Kolide: Hunter Braun
The Humans Behind Kolide series features interview-style blog posts with the humans who build our product and make it work. Get a behind-the-scenes look at who we are and the culture at Kolide.Hunter...
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New API Actions: Assign Device / Issue Live Query
Happy Holidays everyone! Before taking our holiday break, we wanted to announce an exciting set of changes that we just shipped to Kolide’s API!Previously, Kolide’s API was read-only and could not make...
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How I Landed VP of Sales at Kolide
There’s something to be said about the “easy apply” job era. With the appeal of simplicity comes even more options, and in turn — much less effort. Why not apply to anything and everything if it only...
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How to Store Your 2FA Backup Codes Securely
You know that creating a strong password is no longer enough. So you followed cybersecurity best practices and turned on two-factor authentication (2FA) — you’re all set, right?Wait, don’t get too...
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Windows 11 Security: What You Need to Know (22H2 Update)
It’s been a year since Microsoft released Windows 11, with the promise that it was “designed to meet the new security challenges of hybrid work.”The first major update, Windows 11 22H2, was released in...
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How to Use Production Data Securely in Software Development
In a perfect world, engineers wouldn’t need to use production data — information essential for day-to-day business operations — in their development process. Alas, this is not a perfect...
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