[dangerclose]

my colleagues' mbp m2 got into recovery mode after sonoma 14.3 update. it is mdm managed and the recovery key got from the IT is not able to decrypt the disk. login accounts tied to the drive also not able to unlock the disk. IT reached out to apple support and waiting response. because of silicon no other methods like in intel, getting into the machine works. does that mean no way of getting the data back? is it possible to install a fresh mac installation on a external disk and access mbp internal disk for decrypting?

[KennyBlanken]

Why does your IT department MDM devices but not have backups and/or why is any substantial amount of data not synced to servers, in repos, etc?

Given how fast networks and storage and processors are these days - if something takes more than an hour or two of diagnostic time and rarely happens, you just nuke the machine and re-image.