Allen Golbig
MacOS Threat And Detections Researcher
Greater Cleveland United States
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Top SchoolAllen Golbig is a macOS threat and detections researcher with 14 years of hands-on experience securing and engineering Apple environments across NASA, healthcare, education, and enterprise. Currently at Jamf, he blends deep platform expertise with threat detection research, having previously led agency-wide macOS baselines, smartcard FISMA compliance work, and large-scale Jamf Pro deployments. A founding member and active contributor to the US Government macOS Security Compliance Project, he has extended tooling to generate SCAP data streams and remediation reports—work that bridges open-source standards and operational security. Known for pragmatic solutions, Allen has repeatedly converted complex federal and research requirements into auditable, interoperable macOS workflows and was recognized with an agency honor award for a successful smartcard redesign. Based in Greater Cleveland, he pairs long-term client support and automation experience with a rare depth in macOS security engineering.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Anthropology, Bachelor's degree Anthropology at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (11)
it-security10
compliance10
macos10
bash10
cap10
openscap10
sca10
security10
python9
zsh7
ruby6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
usnistgov/macos_security
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
macOS Security Compliance Project
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 248 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Allen primarily contributed to the `generate_guidance.py` script, enhancing its functionality for macOS security compliance. Their work included adding features to generate reports, incorporating options for remediation, and integrating default values. Furthermore, the user integrated additional fixes related to the ruby gems within the project. They also focused on generating the SCAP data stream from the project's rules.
endpoint-securitysecuritybashsecurity-compliancemacos-security
golbiga/Profiles
Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
OS X configuration profiles
Contributions:22 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
windowsos-xconfiguration-profilesmacossolaris
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