santa VS macOSLAPS

For anyone wondering: https://github.com/google/santa

Have you looked at SANTA?

Not directly relevant but interesting...

https://github.com/google/santa

This is a product developed by Google that has at least been utilized internally to some extent. It's not perfect, but my previous company used it and it does prevent unexpected unknown code from running in the background.

What it does not do is prevent someone from intentionally downloading and executing a library unless the upvoter actually comes to some demand that you do so. I found that it quickly became a bit of a "alert fatigue" where you approve things your coworkers send you so they can get back to work without properly vetting.

If you really want to get draconian with your controls/logging have a look into https://github.com/google/santa

Is your company open to adopting open source tooling? There is a tool called Santa that could be used to block binaries from executing.

you may like https://github.com/google/santa

> Infostealers for Mac are a thing (Uber is a mac heavy shop I hear)

Block unknown executables on company machines. Google developed Santa to protect themselves: https://github.com/google/santa

> and that's all it takes to steal cookies and tokens post-mfa,

Make post-MFA cookies and tokens short-lived. Require MFA re-authentication at least daily.

> or why even bother with that, if you're running code just make it a reverse shell.

All outbound connections should be strictly monitored, especially from production servers, which should have no ability to make outbound connections. With modern dependency management, that's harder for build servers, but still doable.

https://github.com/google/santa for anyone curious

LAPS isn't natively supported but once again there's a third-party solution

As others have mentioned, a second account with admin privileges might be your best bet. If you're going to go that route, you may want to implement macoslaps along with that. Macoslaps randomizes the local admin password which comes in handy if you need to give the password to someone. It used to be only for Active Directory joined Macs but now can be used without an active directory (via MDM). Here's the link for more info: This goes on the clients - https://github.com/joshua-d-miller/macOSLAPS

We use MacOSLAPS on our Mac clients to randomize the admin password on those machines: https://github.com/joshua-d-miller/macOSLAPS

And that implementation is why when I set this up at $oldJob I set the RemovePassChars key to all ambiguous characters I had run into on the Microsoft product.

I believe setting something like macOSLAPS up will also resolve the issue since the automatically created local account would authenticate and update it's password silently.

There are a variety of alternatives, such as https://github.com/joshua-d-miller/macOSLAPS