Charles S. Edge
About the Authors
Allister Banks is an enthusiast. He's very excited to be in the exceedingly limited, exclusive club of coauthors of Charles S. Edge. After working for a decade with IT consulting companies on both the coasts of the U.S., he now works for a medical-focused institution with education and data center aspects. He has given speeches at LOPSA-East, MacTech Conference, and MacAdmins Conference at Penn State. He lives in New York. He contributes to various open source projects and speaks enough Japanese to order food.
Charles S. Edge has been working with Apple products since he was a child. Professionally, Charles started with the Mac OS and Apple server offerings in 1999 after working of years with various flavors of Unix. Charles began his consulting career with Support Technologies and Andersen Consulting. As the chief technology officer of 318, Inc., a consulting firm in Santa Monica, California, Charles built and nurtured a team of over 50 engineers, which was the largest Mac team in the world at that time. Charles is now a product manager at JAMF Software, with a focus on Bushel (http://www.bushel.com).
Charles has spoken at a variety of conferences including DefCon, BlackHat, LinuxWorld, MacWorld, MacSysAdmin, and Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Charles has also written 12 books, over 3,000 blog posts, and a number of printed articles on Apple products.
About the Reviewers
Jeremy Agostino is a longtime Mac and iOS developer with a professional focus on hardware support and device drivers. He has assisted in the design and implementation of custom technical solutions to manage some of the largest iOS deployments in the U.S. Jeremy is currently leading the engineering team at Ground Control Solutions, where he is developing a powerful deployment and management tool for iOS devices.
William Smith is a solutions architect for 318, Inc., which is an IT consultancy that is based in Santa Monica, California. He is a technology veteran with more than 20 years of experience. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he has provided training and consulting services on behalf of customers such as Apple and JAMF Software.
William enjoys writing and presenting on technology topics and he has spoken at JAMF Nation User Conference, MacIT, PSU MacAdmins, and other conferences. He has been a Microsoft MVP for more than 11 years and is co-owner of OfficeforMacHelp.com. Currently, he is a part of the steering committee for the new Twin Cities Mac Admins professionals groupa community that supports all things Apple, from education to enterprise.
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Preface
Nowadays, iOS is becoming more and more prevalent in companies and larger organizations. Whether this is a trend that is driven by Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or something that is coming from within the IT department, our knowledge of platforms is being stretched more and more all the time. It's getting harder and harder to be an expert on every platform that is in use in our organizations!
You need to secure your iOS devices. Learning iOS security gives you the knowledge to build security into large-scale iOS deployments. This book takes you through good security practices; these include configuring privacy options to keep personal data away from prying eyes, learning about encryption options to keep data safe at rest, securing apps to reduce the risks introduced by third-party apps, and then laying down practical steps and procedures for carrying out these steps, both on-screen on devices and at scale using Apple Configurator, profiles, and Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions.
This book also includes a section on debugging and viewing data so that you can check out how to further secure items not covered in detail in the book. We teach you how to provide enterprise-class security to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch deployments. This includes a quick run-down of basic security steps and mass deployment of these steps to aid in your large-scale deployment of iOS devices.
This book is meant to be an easy-to-digest guide that follows real-world examples to implement best security practices. Each topic is covered in a theoretical context and further resources are provided where they are needed/applicable.