I’m about 4 months into a new job and I do everything via laptop. It’s a good sized company, about 400 employees I think. I got a request from IT for a meeting to transition from JAMF to Desktop Central, which is affecting everything. I had no idea about JAMF though, it was never mentioned in my onboarding. Trying to look up info on these two brought me to basically “they can see absolutely everything you do.” But it’s not too clear to me the extent involved here. Any IT folks with knowledge about this? Researching into it, fucking every company with remote employees is getting into this. Feels like a massive surveillance transition unrolling in real time and it seems real bad

Edit - are there any ways I can effectively prevent them from doing this? Dummy activity scripts? VPNs?

Double edit — it is indeed a work laptop issued to me

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don't know if my company just poorly implements JAMF (it wouldn't be the only system they've poorly implemented), but in my company, the only thing JAMF can do is see who a company device is registered to, its serial number, turn on "lost mode" (it's deactivated until an employee brings it to us) and wipe it.

    • red_stapler [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      JAMF needs to talk to Apple in order to do anything more than you described, so they're probably just using JAMF standalone which is pretty basic.