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I can't remember the names of any of these companies, but I know there's a healthy ecosystem of "endpoint management" businesses that sell essentially this serv
by woodruffw 4y ago
I can't remember the names of any of these companies, but I know there's a healthy ecosystem of "endpoint management" businesses that sell essentially this service (among other things, like endpoint security monitoring/EDR).
The downside is then that you're running an ultra-privileged agent on each developer machine, with no particular guarantee that said agent is more secure than any given piece of software despite having way more power.
Edit: Remembered one: you could use something like Kolide[1], which more or less wraps osquery[2] to enumerate applications and their versions, and push out warnings asking users to upgrade.
[1]: https://www.kolide.com/ https://www.kolide.com/
[2]: https://www.osquery.io/ https://www.osquery.io/
- petecoop 4y agoAlso see Fleet (https://fleetdm.com/ https://fleetdm.com/) for an open source self-hosted solution. I'm currently using this at a small company to query / enforce policies across a bunch of Windows laptops.