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The Pros and Cons of Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions
It’s no easy feat for a company to maintain security and enforce standardized policies across a fleet of devices. The proliferation of endpoints and operating systems that employees use to connect to...
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Are Corporate VPNs Really on the Way Out?
Many of the security concerns that made corporate VPNs a necessity in the 2000s are less important today. The rise of cloud-based SaaS apps have shifted the threat landscape, and security has broadly...
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Your Company's Bossware Could Get You in Legal Trouble
On Halloween 2022, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo released a memo that likely horrified plenty of executives. She announced her intention to “protect...
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Kolide Announces Okta Device Trust Integration
Today, we are excited to unveil an exciting evolution in how Kolide handles end-user remediation: Okta!Over the last few years, we’ve seen the potential for Kolide as part of a Zero Trust access model....
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Presenting the Sensitive Data Report
According to William Crowell’s famous quip, “the cybersecurity industry is a thousand points of light and no illumination.” And according to our new study, one of the darkest places in the entire field...
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Why We're Removing the "Unlock Mac With Apple Watch" Check
Let’s start with the tl;dr: We’re taking down our “Unlock Mac With Apple Watch” check because the feature is a little buggy on Apple’s side and we can’t always reliably detect if it’s enabled or not....
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How to Use Kolide to Patch Vulnerable Macs
On February 13th, Apple releaseda series of OS updates to quickly mitigate several serious vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-23514 and CVE-2023-23529) in macOS and Safari. The precise details of the...
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The History, Evolution, and Controversies of Zero Trust
Zero Trust is having a bit of a moment. Okta’s 2022 State of Zero Trust report found that 97% of companies have a Zero Trust initiative in place or plan to have one in the next 18 months. (That’s up...
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Malvertising on Google Ads: It's Hiding in Plain Site
Let’s start with a hypothetical: If I asked you to download a piece of open source software, what would you do? Chances are you’d open your browser, go to Google, and type in the name of the...
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Big Changes to Our macOS Agent
We recently made a few critical updates to our agent for macOS. We’ll get into the details shortly, but the quick version is: if you are currently leveraging an MDM to deliver Kolide to your users, we...
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2023's Least and Most Secure Authentication Methods
Any security professional will tell you there’s a simple way to keep data secure: encase it in concrete and toss it in the ocean. Unfortunately, while that approach will keep hackers out, it’ll also...
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Introducing the Kolide Desktop App
Note: the desktop app is only available for organizations using our Device Trust for Okta solutionWe’re excited to announce the next piece in Kolide’s Device Trust solution: the Kolide Desktop...
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The Humans Behind Kolide: Sam Schuna
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.Sam...
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The Guide to Kolide's Okta Integration
Earlier this year, we fundamentally changed how end users interact with Kolide. We integrated our agent with Okta, and made Kolide part of a user’s authentication process. Now, when devices are out of...
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The Real-World Challenges of Patch Management
In theory, patch management should be trivially easy for a company to manage. An IT team–potentially helped by an MDM, a dedicated patch management tool or an MSP–tests and deploys patches, every...
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The Humans Behind Kolide: Harlie Hardage
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.Harlie...
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Mac Patch Management Is an Urgent, Unsolved Problem
Few ad campaigns have ever had such a long-lasting impact as the iconic “I’m a Mac/I’m a PC” commercials that ran in the mid-aughts. In those commercials, John Hodgman’s PC was the stuffy, corporate...
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The Humans Behind Kolide: Chris Born
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.Name:...
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AI Browser Extensions Are a Security Nightmare
“You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now...
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The IT and Security Recap of WWDC 2023
WWDC23 is over, and as always, it gave us a grab-bag of news to pore over and debate. Unsurprisingly, most of the coverage of WWDC focused on the big reveals in the keynote address and state of the...
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