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Apple beta testing and device management services: the perfect match
Mike Boylan

6 min read

Apple beta testing and device management services: the perfect match

Every fall, Apple’s newest operating systems arrive everywhere at once. That’s great for users, but it puts IT teams on the clock: they need to validate the release, find blockers, prepare their support teams, and decide when the business is ready to move.

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Endpoint security for Mac: How to protect macOS at scale
Iru Team

9 min read

Endpoint security for Mac: How to protect macOS at scale

How a single PostScript file leaks your Mac's memory
Csaba Fitzl

8 min read

How a single PostScript file leaks your Mac's memory

Threat Intelligence

Reliable Windows app patching with Iru system tray notifications
Lance Crandall

2 min read

Reliable Windows app patching with Iru system tray notifications

Notify Windows users when app updates are available. When your users are ready, they can allow Iru to close the app and update the application. Employees get more control over when updates land, and you spend less time chasing down unpatched devices.

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Iru Quarterly Threat Report: August 2026
Calvin So

5 min read

Iru Quarterly Threat Report: August 2026

EDR threat detections and responses Iru EDR is built to detect threats before they go mainstream. By combining behavioral detections with insights from our own malware research, we're able to protect customers from exploitation even before public disclosures or patches become available.

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Feature engineering for a macOS malware classifier, and why the Mac makes it harder than Windows
Jacky Xue

Calvin So

Cristian Molina

13 min read

Feature engineering for a macOS malware classifier, and why the Mac makes it harder than Windows

The threat landscape for macOS malware is expanding, while the number of specialists dedicated to defending against it has not kept pace. Unlike Windows, where machine learning (ML) models are supported by extensive documentation and standardized datasets, the macOS environment presents a significant knowledge gap. At Iru, we captured SSTAR Agent, a crypto drainer targeting web3 technology developers via a fake interview lure, which we documented in an earlier post using an ML triage we built.

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What is endpoint vulnerability management (EVM)? (+Best practices)
Iru Team

8 min read

What is endpoint vulnerability management (EVM)? (+Best practices)

Endpoint vulnerability management (EVM) is the process of identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and remediating security weaknesses on your endpoints before attackers can exploit them. Modern endpoint fleets are constantly changing. New devices come online, software updates roll out at different times, and vulnerabilities appear every day. For context, 2025 saw 49,183 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).

How-to guide: Changing and resetting Mac passwords
Arek Dreyer

8 min read

How-to guide: Changing and resetting Mac passwords

This post was originally published in May 2023 and has been updated in July 2026 to reflect the latest information. When was the last time you or someone in your organization needed their Mac password to be something different than what it previously was? There are two ways to do that: change or reset. But although those two words might seem similar, their difference is significant.

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Teams running Vulnerability Response patch critical CVEs in half the time
Matt Day

2 min read

Teams running Vulnerability Response patch critical CVEs in half the time

We recently measured remediation behavior across anonymized customer fleets. Customer accounts running Vulnerability Response closed more of their critical vulnerabilities, and closed them faster. The pattern held across every customer cohort.

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Introducing Policy Management: Create, publish and track compliance policies in Iru
Pedro Ventura

5 min read

Introducing Policy Management: Create, publish and track compliance policies in Iru

It's Thursday afternoon. The audit is in 45 days.

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Compliance Automation momentum: new frameworks and industry recognition
Iru Team

4 min read

Compliance Automation momentum: new frameworks and industry recognition

As of this week, Iru Compliance Automation supports three new frameworks: CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, and ISO 27701. These frameworks join the others within Iru Compliance Automation today (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST 800-53, and NIST CSF 2.0), bringing the total to ten.

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What is endpoint visibility and control, and how does it work?
Iru Team

8 min read

What is endpoint visibility and control, and how does it work?

Endpoint visibility gives you a real-time view of your endpoints, including device inventory, patch status, configurations, running processes, and security posture. Your new list iEndpoint control lets you act on that data by deploying patches, enforcing policies, restricting software, and remediating threats.tem Endpoint visibility and control combines monitoring and remediation, helping you identify risks and fix them from a single platform. Visibility without control creates security gaps since detecting issues is only half the job. The ability to remediate them quickly is what reduces risk. Features like automated patching, policy enforcement, and continuous compliance help reduce manual work and keep your endpoints secure. Every endpoint tells a story. One laptop is missing critical patches. Another is running unauthorized software. A contractor's device hasn't checked in for weeks. You know exactly what's happening across your environment, but knowing isn't the same as fixing.

Managed OS for Windows: Enforce updates on your timeline
Lance Crandall

2 min read

Managed OS for Windows: Enforce updates on your timeline

Target a Windows feature release, set a deadline, and know that devices will be running that version when it arrives.

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Config as Code for device management: How it works in Iru
Mike Boylan

9 min read

Config as Code for device management: How it works in Iru

Most device management workflows still depend on tribal knowledge. An admin makes a change, documents it somewhere (maybe), and hopes the next person understands why it was done. At small scale, that’s manageable. At enterprise scale, it’s a risk.

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How to automate Mac patch management with Iru in 3 simple steps
Iru Team

10 min read

How to automate Mac patch management with Iru in 3 simple steps

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