Fortify Yourself and Your Mac

It’s time to step up the security game with a bit more information and more choices to make in ways that keep marauders out (with one loophole), and that let you protect data entering and leaving your Mac. This will include using, purchasing, or subscribing to third-party software, something I suggest sparingly, but that is critical in this case.

In this chapter, I dig into Gatekeeper, Apple’s built-in software integrity system hinted out back in Control Which Apps Launch, and now spread out so you can better understand it—and now how to override it.

I also dive into anti-malware software, and why a modern Mac user who may have skipped it for decades, should consider it in 2021 and beyond. Finally, I look at Apple’s ...

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