Use Macs in your business?

Check this life simplifier out and drop me a line if interested. Made for Mac by Mac fanatics. https://www.gal.uk/dru/peanut

Peanut is a cloud IT service. Leveraging central system management and security compliance suite of products it manages deployment, patching and monitoring of your Mac computers. Updates, installs, security enforcement and custom settings are all managed centrally and seemlessly.

Unlike many other computer mangement systems, Peanut is made for Mac by Mac fanatics. It is not a Windows system with half-hearted Mac support. It is aimed at Mac users and no one else. Being Mac centric enables us to dedicate our resources to providing Mac users the best possible experience. Based around the systems used by Google, Facebook, Disney and many universities and schools around the world, we bring enterprise level quality and security to small business. We like Peanut so much we use it too.

Peanut can help your business become GDPR compliant by ensuring your systems are up-to-date and are setup with data security and integrity in mind.

Price: ￡9.95/device/month + VAT

Services included in main package:

Simple Enrolment

Single double-clickable signed installer

Can be deployed via Apple Remote Desktop

Encryption Enforcement

Encryption is enforced on all computers

A recovery key is stored securely

Automated Updates

Applications, drivers, security updates all happen automatically without user intervention keeping your network secure and up-to-date

Revertible Updates

Some updates cause more problems than they solve. Our system can downgrade an application or driver if necessary.

Antimalware

Anti-malware software with automatic scanning and removal costs ￡2-3/device/month, we include it for free

Security Enforcement

Enforce various security settings such as encrypt-on-hibernate, screen lock, firewall

Application Installation Control

Control which programs get installed on your company systems

Customised Setup

We will customise the setup to suit your busness needs, down to last byte.

Shared Secret LAPS management

In the past system administrators used a single master password to access all computers. A leak of such a password could have severe security consequences. Shared Secret LAPS works by combining a randomised password, a password escrow service and a shared secret that can be revoked at any time to make your systems as secure as possible.

Custom AppStore

Create your company custom AppStore where users can easily download and install approved pre-licensed applications.

Standard Users (non-admin) possible

The system allows non-admin users to install and update approved apps, eliminating the need to make users administartors.

All data transfers are encrypted

We use industry standard top grade encryption to protect all data 

2-way identity verification

In order to prevent anyone from accessing your data, a key based 2-way handshake protocol is used to verify both server and client before each data transfer. Your user name and password are useless to a hacker without your unique key which is near impossible to copy.

Predictive Hardware Failure

We use deep SMART scanning to predict hard disk and SSD failures before they happen

Thermal load monitoring included

Battery monitoring

Location Tracking

You can enable location tracking on your Macs

Energy Usage report

Monitor the energy consumption of your Macs, some rogue programs can cause your computers to run at very high loads, increasing their energy use.

Application Usage Tracking

See which programs are being used and analyse work patterns

Apple security updates enforcement

Normally a user can defer a security update indefenitely. Our system will ensure that updates happen in a timely manner, allowing the user to save their work before forcing the update according to a system set schedule.

Installer integrity verification

All installers and updaters are verified before they are executed on your devices

All data scanned for viruses, adware and malware

All the data we transfer, including the installers and updates are each scanned for all known threats by some of the best security providers including Sophos, AVG, ClamAV, MalwareBytes, McAfee and others.

Remote Wipe

If a computer is stolen we can delete all user data remotely if the computer ever goes online

Cloud Service

The service is available anywhere in the world with inernet access, remote workers included

Behind the scenes

Most of the tasks are performed seemlessly in the background

Rapid system deployment

Deploy new Macs quickly and efficiently. Simply install our application , restart and watch as all your standard applications and drivers get installed automatically.

Inventory and hardware monitoring

Rich data and statistics about your computers including

Memory

Network

WiFi

Storage

Security

Backup status (Archiware, TimeMachine and CrashPlan supported)

CPU and memory load

Bandwidth usage

All data is exportable in Excel format

Optional add-ons: 

MDM, DEP and VPP management - working on price - ￡3-4 inc license and service