How do you allow Macbooks in your environment? Our Marketing team requires them for the nature of their work, but IT has been reticent. I suggested leaving Macbooks off network entirely, but we still need efficient file share option and/or VPN access. What solutions have you employed?
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Properly configured and administered, the Mac OS can be as secure, if not more secure, than the Windows Platform. We offer our user community a choice of either Mac or Windows as their primary device - finding it best to let people use the tool that works best of them. Properly configured and administered, the Mac OS can be as secure, if not more secure, than the Windows Platform. Through Apple Business Manager, our Mac laptops are all firmware tied to our organizational ID, so they will look to our JAMF instance to reimage remotely even if they're stolen and wiped clean. We use JAMF to manage our MacBook fleet and Maas360 to manage our Windows machines.
We allow resources to pick the device that helps them do their job. Many of our sales personal and engineers use Macbooks. We have added several tools to help secure the environment, like Intune, Crowdstrike, and Manage Engine.
We have a large percentage of users in the US on MacBooks esp. for online, marketing, and others including myself. We use Jamf to manage, CISCO Anyconnect, and Intune. It works quite nicely for me and I'm on the Apple M1 Max chip.
We have several Macs among our fleet of laptops as well. I'd recommend you look into a Mac MDM that works within your Microsoft Ecosystem. If you have Microsft Intune there is a MacOS client, there is also Jamf but I haven't used that in years.
Most security platforms with clients have MAC OS compatibility like Okta, Zscaler, Crowdstrike, Etc. Using modern security platforms and https://www.jamf.com/ the Mac OS can be secure and play well with others. Typically when I see this type of policy it is because the IT Teams do not have the Mac skill set.