Those kinds of improvements, though technical, have big implications for how enterprises deploy and secure Macs. Zero-touch enrollment — ordering a Mac that auto-registers with the corporate IdP the moment it’s powered on — is the holy grail of Apple fleet management. It reduces both administrative overhead and exposure from unprotected endpoints.
While Apple’s incremental advancements in macOS Tahoe bring optimism, they also raise the bar for ecosystem partners. Both Iru and Addigy plan to support the new PSSO and Authenticated Guest Mode capabilities, but they say full interoperability depends on Apple maintaining stable APIs and documentation — a perennial complaint among enterprise developers.
And even with new tools, few IT leaders expect overnight transformation. Dodd acknowledged that “macOS still relies on a username and password for authentication, so there can be an impedance mismatch with more modern, phishing-resistant, passwordless methods.” Once logged in, however, “the experience of using passkeys with macOS is quite good,” he said, adding that “every enterprise should be looking at passkeys to level up security for critical apps and resources.”
