Set Up Basic Security
Time to start improving your security! This chapter contains steps so fundamental to your security that you’d be doing yourself a huge disservice to avoid them. Just as you need to check that the appliance is plugged in before you call customer service, the steps in this chapter constitute a sort of minimum threshold for security awareness.
This chapters covers keeping macOS and third-party software up to date, configuring security and privacy settings in macOS (particularly regarding locking your Mac when you’re not in front of it),
Keep Your Software Up to Date
It’s a fact of life: software has bugs. And some of those bugs result in security vulnerabilities. Fortunately, most major software vendors, including Apple, ...
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