Take Control of Securing Your Apple Devices

Fortify Your Mac

Let’s narrow the focus from all of Apple operating systems for a moment and look at all the ways in which you can mediate, filter, and control how your potentially very open Mac handles its security and your private data.

In this chapter, I cover a broad range of macOS-specific security and privacy features. I start with basic settings and how to create new accounts in macOS. I then move on to Gatekeeper, Apple’s app-restricting technology designed to deter malicious software, and more general advice on avoiding malware.

From there, I take you through safe networking setup, protecting data on one macOS account from other accounts on the same Mac, and understanding Apple’s sandboxing approach, which lets you limit how each apps ...