Speakers: Tom Bridge
Level: Intermediate, Lecture
Excerpt: Beginning with macOS 10.14.5, macOS will be more aggressive about requiring notarization of some application binaries. What is notarization for? What does it ensure that developers do? How does it benefit you as a user? How do you need to prepare your environment to check for notarization, provide exceptions for critical utilities, and plan fo the future? This session will take you through the basics of what it means to have a notarized binary, how notarization occurs during the build cycle, what it can mean if an application isn’t notarized, and how to handle whitelisting applications with UAKEL and UAMDM.
Description: Beginning with macOS 10.14.5, macOS will be more aggressive about requiring notarization of some application binaries. What is notarization for? What does it ensure that developers do? How does it benefit you as a user? How do you need to prepare your environment to check for notarization, provide exceptions for critical utilities, and plan fo the future? This session will take you through the basics of what it means to have a notarized binary, how notarization occurs during the build cycle, what it can mean if an application isn’t notarized, and how to handle whitelisting applications with UAKEL and UAMDM.
About the speaker
Tom Bridge – Partner – Technolutionary LLC
Tom Bridge is a partner at Technolutionary LLC, providing IT support to dozens of Mac-focused businesses, from organizations as small as two to as large as two hundred. He is the founding producer of the Mac Admins Podcast. He lives in Brookland, District of Columbia, with his wife Tiffany, their son Charlie, and a chonky cat named Macro.