Compliance audit approaching and you have no visibility into your Apple fleet?
Compliance Gaps: No Visibility for Audits
Auditors will ask specific questions: Prove all devices are encrypted. Show patch compliance rates. Demonstrate access controls. You'll have no documentation and no evidence.
The Apple Blind Spot in Your Compliance Program
No documentation of Apple device security controls
Can't prove all devices are encrypted
No visibility into patch compliance across Mac fleet
Audit logs don't include macOS devices
Security policies documented for Windows, not Apple
ISO 27001 audit scheduled in 30 days. Your Windows infrastructure is ready: documented policies, automated controls, compliance dashboards. Then the auditor asks about Macs. Are all MacBooks encrypted with FileVault? Don't know, no central visibility. What's your patch management process for macOS? Don't have one, updates are user-driven. How do you enforce security baselines on Apple devices? We don't, each Mac is independently managed. Show me audit logs for device access. We don't log macOS events. The Windows team is ready. The Apple environment is a compliance black hole. Picture a financial services firm we worked with: FINMA audit revealed they had comprehensive controls for 200 Windows workstations and zero documented controls for 30 MacBooks used by executives and developers. Those 30 Macs became the focus of the entire audit. Remediation deadline: 60 days. Penalties for non-compliance: lose banking license. They called us on day 2.
When Apple Devices Derail Your Audit
Failed Audits and Remediation Deadlines
Compliance frameworks don't care about platform. ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS2, and SOC 2 all require documented security controls across all endpoints. Apple devices without controls means failed control objectives. Auditors issue findings. You get remediation deadlines. Miss the deadline, lose the certification. Miss the certification, lose customers or face penalties.
Can't Prove Security Posture
Auditor asks: Are all devices encrypted? You think so, but you can't prove it. Auditor asks: Show patch compliance rates. You don't have that data. Auditor asks: Demonstrate least-privilege access. You can't, because everyone has admin rights. Each unanswered question becomes a documented control failure. Hope isn't evidence.
Emergency Remediation Under Pressure
Audit finds gaps. Now you have 30-90 days to remediate while running your business. Rush implementation introduces new risks. Documentation gets written retroactively, and auditors notice. You spend 10x the effort under time pressure compared to implementing controls properly from the start. And there's no guarantee of audit success after emergency remediation.
Apple Expertise Gap Exposed
Your security team understands Windows compliance. They can answer auditor questions confidently. For Apple? They're guessing. Auditors recognize uncertainty. It undermines trust in your entire security program. One domain of obvious weakness makes auditors scrutinize everything more carefully. The Apple gap becomes the thread that unravels your audit.
Apple-Specific Compliance Controls and Documentation
We implement MDM-enforced security controls mapped to your compliance framework, with automated evidence collection and audit-ready documentation. FileVault encryption: enforced and monitored. Patch management: automated with compliance dashboards. Access controls: least-privilege documented. Audit logging: centralized and retained. Security baselines: CIS Benchmarks implemented. Every control mapped to specific compliance requirements with evidence collection automated. When auditors ask questions, you have answers and documentation.
MDM-enforced security controls for all Apple devices
Automated evidence collection for audit requirements
Real-time compliance dashboards and reporting
Documented security baselines aligned with frameworks
Centralized audit logging with retention policies
Apple expertise to answer auditor questions confidently
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