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Tom Bridge
Tom Bridge is the host and producer of the Mac Admins Podcast and founding Co-Chair (now Chair Emeritus) of the Mac Admins Foundation, based in Washington, D.C.
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Apr 7, 2026
Apple means Business
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4:37Tom BridgeGUEST
Well, I think that in a lot of ways, this is one of the th- the questions that I had going into this, was, "Why?" I mean, this does seem to be, you know, hey, we really g- we have a small business, a micro business, which, by which I mean less than 10 employees.
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4:52Tom BridgeGUEST
Um, but, you know, for organizations that are larger than that, or I, I mean, I really can't see somebody switching from a Microsoft 365 or a Google Workspace towards Apple's environment.
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5:05Tom BridgeGUEST
There are still too many, you know, question marks in what this new version of the tool will offer.
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5:13Tom BridgeGUEST
Uh, we still don't know if that's going to require managed Apple accounts, for example, uh, to handle your authentication.
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13:48Bradley ChambersHOST
I kinda have simi-similar thoughts to the email, but I want-- I'm, I wanna hear your, I wanna hear your hot take on it.
Going back to the practitioner role
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14:04Tom BridgeGUEST
And I certainly think that there are parts of this, uh, uh, security environment that are less than ideal.
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14:11Tom BridgeGUEST
You can't have a multifactor authentication in the way, um, during that period.
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14:15Tom BridgeGUEST
And I think that that is problematic because we all know that MFA and unphishable MFA in specific are, is the gold standard for the industry for proving that you are who you say you are.
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14:25Tom BridgeGUEST
And if you're about to receive a whole bunch of key material and other things from your IDP and from your, uh, mobile device management solution, or I'm sorry, your device management system, um, you should be, m- you know, subject to the highest level of scrutiny during that initial authentication because it's not just a new machine that's been handed to you.
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14:46Tom BridgeGUEST
You're trusting a single factor as a, uh, you know, as a, as an authentication during that process.
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