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mikermcneil

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About mikermcneil

I'm Mike McNeil, and I code and make business and stuff. I'm building tools to simplify cybersecurity, device management, and software development.

I'm CEO of Fleet, open-source platform for security and IT teams with lots of endpoints (https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company). I'm also the creator and BDFL of Sails, open-source MVC framework for Node.js (https://sailsjs.com/about).

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikermcneil Twitter: https:/x.com/mikermcneil GitHub: https://github.com/mikermcneil

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    In https://fleetdm.com/tables/mounts ?

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    Comment #39507671

    runs as a daemon, communicates over http

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    Comment #39507573

    Nice! “ACT” for anyone searching (automatic table construction)

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    Comment #39507475

    this is true

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    Comment #39507116

    Was about to say "will fix ASAP", but double-plus since it's @nyanshak!

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    Comment #39506191

    osquery after Meta: https://devops.com/the-linux-foundation-breathes-new-life-in...

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    Comment #39506179

    you should chat w/ AB! https://www.linkedin.com/in/abubakar-yousafzai-b7213659/

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    Comment #39506168

    likely the origin of the `carbon_black_info` table https://fleetdm.com/tables/carbon_black_info

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    Comment #39506158

    We just launched open-source Windows MDM in Fleet: https://fleetdm.com/device-management

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    Comment #39506153

    (used in production directly or via major EDRs by much of silicon valley, governments, and the F1000) Contributions: https://github.com/osquery/osquery

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    Comment #39506041

    Some example queries: https://fleetdm.com/queries The formula osquery uses to report performance: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/issues/16123

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    Comment #39506012

    Having paved roads helps: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet

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    Comment #39505983

    Feel your pain! This was the idea behind query performance "bubbles" in Fleet. (Uses the osquery performance metadata to indicate whether performance impact of a query on a host is…

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    Comment #39505960

    me and my brother-in-law Eric built this table viewer: https://fleetdm.com/tables (it's got an extra layer of metadata with examples. Supports markdown in the yaml for most fields.…

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    Comment #39505951

    Started as people sending scripts back and forth, like The Postal Service https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramosjohnny/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/marpaia/

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    Comment #39505834

    They did an amazing feat of engineering. Mike Arpaia's brainchild, co-created by my cofounder zwass at Fleet, and massively improved by seph (@directionless), ted reed, alessandro,…

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    Comment #39505712

    History (tldr): https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#history There’s also a podcast episode on it with two of the creators: "The story behind the creation of osquery" https://fleet…

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    Comment #39505693

    What did you run into on Linux?

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    Comment #39121639

    Disclosure #2: I'm the CEO One of my fav things about this is that we're solving the "Linux MDM problem". As a person who likes to use Linux, it's exciting that, no matter how big …

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    Comment #39120973

    Such an interesting man. Quoted his mom in the company values recently: https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#empathy """ When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, …

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    Comment #38717529

    Hear hear!!

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    Comment #35532239

    Negatron: https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#history