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Any suggestions for MDM for Linux laptops? Most device management solutions I have seen are for either Windows or Mac, but is there one that is accepted by auditors and is not utter garbage UX wise for the user on Linux, where the user is most likely going to want and have full admin access to their own laptop? (I.e. since the user in question is a developer, I feel a strong aversion to not trusting them to do system administration on their own laptop.)

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We passed our SOC2 Type 2 audit without any MDM - we're just doing a manual quarterly audit on machines to check that they're update to date.

MDM helps to detect issues earlier, and can remove the need for manual audits, but is not a hard requirement - same with most other things in SOC2.

We've been looking into Osquery. It's open source and appears to be very lightweight. Has anyone else used it?

https://www.osquery.io/

osquery is great and, while it does not tick precisely the same checkboxes as Jamf or Fleetsmith, it'll almost certainly suffice for evidence generation for compliance (osquery is in fact much better at producing "evidence" than most MDM tools are).

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