Apple's new macOS Sequoia update is breaking some cybersecurity tools (opens in new tab)

I don't see a single product listed there that actually improves security. I'd consider them "cover your ass for compliance" products. None of these vendors has a track record of delivering quality or actual protection without increasing the attack surface, as proven by past screwups of these companies. They even quote Crowdstrike in the first paragraph.

macOS release dates are predictable and Apple ships developer previews and public betas. If these vendors can't update their products in time that doesn't speak for their processes, automated testing infrastructure nor care for their customers.

> “As a developer of macOS security tools, it’s incredibly frustrating to time and time again have to deal with (understandably) upset users (understandably) blaming your tools for breaking their Macs, when in reality it was Apple’s fault all along,”

I would like to understand this better. Were there not any beta releases that these companies could have tested with in advance? Or were changes made between the beta and the release that broke things? Or something else?

Always fun to see the spyware merchants whining about how Apple’s privacy protection efforts makes creeping on users difficult.

Cry harder, dirtbags.

> At this point, it’s unclear exactly what is the issue

So, is this a bug in Sequoia or a change that affects these low-level tools? If the latter, they may not like it, but that’s par for the game on MacOS.

(Tried reading https://x.com/patrickwardle/status/1836862900654461270, referenced by sephamorr, but that link isn’t working for me)

Yes, this is the right move that Windows should have done long ago. These are not security products; they are security theater. Chosen only for compliance or CYA reasons by people who don't fully understand the systems they are in charge of securing and administering.

Break them again and again until people realize how useless they are.

all my wireguard tunnels could not connect upon upgrade. disabling the macos firewall allowed me to use my tunnels again, fyi.

> “As a developer of macOS security tools, it’s incredibly frustrating to time and time again have to deal with (understandably) upset users (understandably) blaming your tools for breaking their Macs, when in reality it was Apple’s fault all along,”

> On the day of macOS Sequoia’s release, a CrowdStrike sales engineer said in a Slack room for Mac admins that the company had to delay support for the new version of Mac’s operating system. “I’m very sorry to report that we will not be supporting Sequoia on day 1 in spite of our intention (and previous track record) to support the latest OS within hours of [General Availability],” the engineer said in the message, seen by TechCrunch.

If only Apple had offered these clowns some sort of beta or developer preview version to test their snake oil against before the widespread release of the new OS...

Absolutely zero sympathy.

These cybersecurity tools are like posting a contracted armed security guard to an airport departure lounge.

> And, somehow, the software update has broken the functionality of several security tools made by CrowdStrike, ...

What terrible news – whatever shall we do?