Apple on MicroMDM

SCEPping stone

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:54:50 +0000

SCEP has been a cornerstone of Apple MDM. While you’ve always technically been able to avoid SCEP in MDM, by directly embedding a device identity into an enrollment profile, SCEP has been the de facto (and most secure) way to get device identities for MDM authentication onto devices since the beginning of Apple MDM.

Understanding MDM Certificates

Thu, 11 May 2017 13:04:37 +0200

Apple Mobile Device Management (MDM) requires the use of various digital certificates for its operation. But exactly which certificates and the various ways in which they are generated, acquired, signed, used, exported, imported, and managed within an MDM product may not be so clear. Generally speaking a commercial MDM product or service manages most of the complexity related to these certificates for you but in the case of an open source MDM much of that responsibility will land on you. In this post I hope to bring a better understanding of these certificates with the aim that you’ll be managing at least a few of them yourself.

The business side of MDM - Do you know your DUNS Number?

Sat, 06 May 2017 13:04:37 +0200

Getting started with MDM is hard enough, but the toughest part is not technical, it’s getting approval to create all the accounts with Apple in order to begin. I recently went through the whole process for my company and thought it would be useful to others if I blogged about it. Below is infromation about what accounts you might need, and how you might go about acquiring them.