Behind the Curtain
This Advisory team member upholsters chairs as a hobby.
Who is Christina Parker?
This free resource, related to mobile device management, allows us to ensure newly purchased Apple devices are automatically reflected in a client's MDM tenant.
What is Apple Business Manager?
This identity provider is Advisory's current gold standard offered to clients.
What is Okta?
This piece of hardware can be found in a server closet and ensures all network drops in a client's office are live to use.
What is a network switch?
This former client POC wrote a book that none of us read.
Who is Chris Castaldo?
This Advisory team member would rather go hungry than ever have macaroni and cheese as a side dish to salmon.
Who is Orbis Lopez?
A tool leveraged by Windows users to ensure their 3rd party apps are always up to date.
What is Patch My PC.
This widely used XML-based open standard allows Okta to pass authentication and authorization data between the identity provider and a service provider.
What is SAML?
This Cisco-owned brand famously requires a per-device license to pass traffic; without it, your hardware becomes a very expensive paperweight
What is Meraki.
This Karbonite, who shares his name with an Avenger, posted a Holiday photo with his three hairless cats.
Who is Jourdan Pym
This Advisory team member has a really difficult time finding name plates at Disney World, but can ask for customer service in 2.75 different languages!
Who is Anoush d'Orville?
To manage Apple devices, Intune & Jamf require this specific certificate to be renewed annually.
What is the Apple MDM Push certificate (APNs)
This is Okta’s proprietary mobile app used for push notifications, biometrics, and time-based one-time passwords.
What is Okta Verify?
This UniFi hardware device functions as an all-in-one "console," combining a Security Gateway, Switch, and a built-in Network Controller
What is the Dream Machine.
This Flowcode POC is a 'gem' to work with.
Who is Kiley Pearl
BBQ shrimp is on the menu at this fictional Advisory office.
What is Australia?
Often paired with Intune, this Microsoft Entra feature acts as the "gatekeeper," blocking or allowing access to data based on compliance status.
What is Conditional Access?
This is the term for an external system (like Bamboo or Active Directory) that acts as the "truth" for user data, automatically creating or disabling Okta accounts.
What is a Profile Source?
Both Meraki and UniFi support this 802.1X-based protocol used to provide port-based authentication for users connecting to the network.
What is RADIUS.
At NCF, this POC can sometimes get “Rowdy”
Who is Charlie Piper
These two "Florida Men" have thankfully not ended up as the namesake memes.
Who are Jim and Ryon?
In Jamf Pro, this specific feature is used to customize the macOS "Setup Assistant" experience, such as skipping the Siri or Touch ID prompts.
What is a PreStage Enrollment?
This specific Okta feature allows a user to sign into a Mac or Windows machine using their Okta credentials, bridging the gap between the OS and the Cloud ID.
What is Okta Device Trust (or Okta FastPass)?
This is the specific license tier required for Meraki MX appliances to access advanced features like Cisco Talos-powered Content Filtering and IDS/IPS
What is Advanced Security.
You won't find this Scott in the orchard, even though he's our main man at a Korean skin care brand.
Who is Edward Scott.