Apple is bringing some networking protections over from iOS to macOS starting with Sequoia. Please see the following links: "What’s new in privacy" WWDC 2024 Video, https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10123?time=1097 "Local Network Privacy FAQ" https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/663858. In particular, the first few FAQs therein. "Support local network privacy in your app" https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10110/

Hi @DTS Engineer (Quinn) I'm a colleague of @apodila. Like he mentioned in a subsequent comment, yes, it is a regular daemon, launched by launchd. Curious why this would matter though? And thanks for the FAQ: Going by the below from the What is a local network FAQ (bolding mine), can we assume that a user connecting over VPN to an on-prem server, would NOT see the local network prompt: A local network is an IP network associated with a broadcast-capable network interface. These interfaces include Wi-Fi and Ethernet (1), but not WWAN or VPN. Any address on a local network is considered to be a local network address. Finally, is there a way to set this local network permission using MDM or programatically? Thanks -Vivek