iOS 16 new feature— Managed Device Attestation and what can you learn from it?

With the iOS 16 official release back in September 2022, Apple released a cool feature, not only applicable to Apple devices but also to IoT devices or in general, whenever one is dealing with a Zero Trust Network. For those of you unfamiliar with Zero Trust Networks, they are basically networks where no one is trusted by default from inside or outside the network, and verification is required from everyone trying to gain access to resources on the network. But this post is not about Zero Trust Networks, but rather about the Managed Device Attestation feature.

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This feature deals with the problem of securing the service and making it accessible to only authorized devices. But one might say:

When I access or use companies services I’m using my password and username for authentication. Why would I need another authentication tool?

I mentioned this because I don’t want you to confuse between user authentication and device authentication. Your password and username are something you need to provide to authenticate as a user, but device authentication is something completely different. Not only device authentication can completely replace user authentication but it can also automate the authentication process itself. Let’s say, for example, your company provides you…