Google Chrome will update itself in the background, but the new version will not take effect until after the user restarts Chrome. The primary settings you are looking to setup are UpdatePolicies for and the RelaunchNotification* settings.Īlternatively, you could uninstall and reinstall any existing Google Chrome installations via a script and Jamf Pro if you don’t wish to enable auto-update. Alternatively, you can use a script with Jamf Pro such as Ryan Ball’s chrome-enable-autoupdates as discussed on Jamf Nation. If you’re using the Chrome cloud management infrastructure, you can easily manipulate settings there. Google Chrome has the ability to automatically update itself, so we’ll leverage that first. Google also provides full guidance on how to deploy or enroll Chrome installations into their management infrastructure with Jamf Pro. You can get all the details in the Chrome Browser Cloud Management guide. Using this will greatly simplify a number of management operations such as configuration, reporting and extension management for Chrome. Google provides central configuration and policy management through a cloud service to its customers.

(Optional) Step 0: Managing Chrome through the Cloud We’ll use the Google Chrome update as our example. So let’s talk about how to roll out these patches to your Mac infrastructure. There are few details on the specifics around these patches outside of the designation of them fixing “heap buffer overflows” and “memory corruption vulnerabilities.”Īs we’ve talked about a number of times, when vendors publish these kinds of patches it is critical for organizations to roll them out as efficiently as possible. Microsoft patched Edge in January, which may have been related, and Google recently released Chrome. In many of these cases, the attacker was exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (which is based on Chromium). In the last few weeks, multiple security researchers reported that they’ve been under attack.

Attackers exploiting Chrome and Edge zero-day vulnerabilities

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