Sophos Intercept X for Mac does not natively support this new chipset however, it can be made to work using a piece of backwards compatibility software called Rosetta 2. Typically, we don’t make EAPs available to Sophos Central MSP accounts, however given that some customers may be purchasing new Apple hardware that comes pre-shipped running Big Sur, we have extended the EAP to MSP customers too.Ībout new hardware, the following Macintosh models (at the time of writing) use the new Apple M1 ARM-based system chipset: Most of you are probably aware of the process on how to join an EAP and then enroll devices, however if you would like some info on this process click here. This means that you can control its rollout by blocking the application – the installer is classified as a “System Tool”. If you would like to prevent users from upgrading to BigSur AND if you or your customer are using Sophos Endpoint, then it’s worth noting that the SophosLabs have added an Application Control detection for the Big Sur installer.

TIP: As you can appreciate, we don’t typically recommend using EAP (pre-release) software on a production system. The good news is that we now have an Early Access Program (EAP) available in Central, whereby customers can nroll devices running macOS11 in order to receive a pre-release version of Sophos Endpoint v10.0.2. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a GA version of Intercept X for Mac available on the first day of release.

This allows software like network extensions and endpoint security solutions to extend the functionality of macOS without requiring kernel-level access.Īn interesting third party review of some of the most significant changes in the last decade Apple have recently introduced can be found here. These changes started to appear with macOS Catalina (10.15) – Apple is beginning to deprecate the use of system wide kernel extensions in favour of user space system extension APIs. In this article, we will take a look at these changes, as well as some of the things you might consider doing to automate much of the deployment of Intercept X on macOS.

The latest operating system from Apple, macOS11 Big Sur, has arrived and it brings with it a few significant architecture modifications.

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