Take Control of Securing Your Mac, 3rd Edition

Share Resources Securely

No Mac is an island. From almost the company’s first days, Apple has given the Mac the ability to talk with other devices—and share things with them. macOS can share files, folders, and volumes, as well as share a variety of services, like internet access and even content from Apple cached to a local network server.

What’s critical is that you make choices to share only the things you want to, and that you don’t open up access in a way that reduces your security and exposes your data or system to exfiltration or attack.

An extremely popular additional way to share for the last several years is via cloud-based services that let you upload or sync files, and then access them yourself or share them to others, often with ...