Hardening Your Macs: Keeping Apple Computers Safe at the Hardware and Software Level

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J. Vigo, Jr.Hardening Your Macshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8939-6_2

2. Risky Business

Jesus Vigo, Jr.¹  

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Miami, FL, USA

 

Before you can understand how to implement the proper strategies to protect something, you need to first know what exactly you’re protecting, right? After all, what good is security if you apply the wrong solutions or forget to apply any protection whatsoever to certain devices?

This is where the concepts of risk, risk assessment, and risk matrices come into play by helping you break down what needs protecting and how to best protect it.

Additionally, the terms tolerance and appetite apply to risk-based concepts, helping you to determine ...