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macOS security considerations

macOS security considerations

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macOS security considerations

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] macOS is known for having really strong security built in. And in this video, we're going to see how we can better secure a Mac by leveraging file and directory permissions. We'll take a look at the built-in firewall. We'll also consider a utility called FileVault, which is going to encrypt our drive. And we'll take a look at a few commands we can issue from the command-line interface. And first, let's consider file and directory permissions. And macOS, it's based on UNIX, specifically the origins of macOS was NeXTSTEP, and the origins of NeXTSTEP was BSD Unix. So the way permissions work in macOS, it's very similar to what we see for most Linux and UNIX distributions out there today. And the permissions that we can assign to a file or directory determine if a user can read that file, write to that file, or execute that file. And we can assign one set of read/write execute permissions to the owner of the file. We could assign a different set of…

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