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_7

7. The Outer Limits

Jesus Vigo, Jr.¹  

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Miami, FL, USA

 

Securing your Mac occurs when you harden or lock down various settings within your Apple computer. These settings, as mentioned previously, fall into two separate categories that – when combined – make up a comprehensive security plan to keep Mac protected.

The first of these categories is external security protections and the various settings that make up this section will be discussed here in great depth, alongside step-by-step instructions (when allowable) to configure these settings for maximum security against threats that ...