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The Kandji Team
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Updated Management of Firewall Payloads

DATE:
AUTHOR: The Kandji Team

 ㅤ   Two keys in the Firewall payload have changed:

  • Ensure Firewall is configured to log; and

  • Ensure detailed firewall logging.

Prior to macOS 12, these keys were set by the Kandji Agent. In macOS 12, these keys are set via MDM; on this version and later, on this version and later, the Kandji Agent is not able to set them due to security improvements within macOS.

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With this change, if a device running macOS 11 or earlier has this profile and is then updated to macOS 12, Kandji will re-push the profile and include the new keys that are set by MDM; the keys will no longer be managed by the Kandji Agent. Administrators will notice an activity log entry for this action when Kandji automatically pushes down the Firewall profile.