Master Your Mac Security  macOS Complete Security Guide!

Most people have no clue how to enable Apple’s built-in Security for Protecting their Mac. Honestly this concerns me, because it’s really easy, you just need to know how to do it! The built-in free tools are fantastic, but the problem is that Apple cannot ship the Mac with all the different Security options enabled. This means YOU must be the one to enable these Security options, but if you have no idea what they are and what they do, then why would you… That is why this course was made, to help everyone Secure their Mac!  

Throughout the years I have assisted many people with their Mac Security, but what I discovered is that people really need to learn themselves and not just have it done by their Mac Guy. When you take this course and learn it, then go back to it whenever and forever, you gain a feeling of control and understanding of what the Security does and how to Configure it. My recommendation is to always enable the built-in tools from Apple, cause they are great and I recommend it to all my friends and family, which means you should do it too!

Jesse’s personal goals for this course:

1. One Hour Max Course Length - People are extremely busy and I did not want my course to feel like a burden. It took me 70 hours to shoot the 9 sessions in order to make it only 1 hour. Dozens of re-shoots, but I was able to accomplish the goal.
2. Teach everyone how to enable and review Apple’s built-in Security tools. 
3. Make it easy enough for non-technical Mac Users and the Mac newby.

Course Outline:

1. Enable FileVault (Required to protect your data if your computer is stolen)
2. Enable Firmware Password (Required to prevent your Mac from being used again if stolen)
3. Enable Application Firewall (Control connections made to your computer from other computers on your network.)
4. Enable SIP - System Integrity Protection (Helps prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac.)
5. Review Gatekeeper (Gatekeeper helps protect us from the applications we download from the Internet, not the App Store as those are already vetted by Apple.)
6. Enable Xprotect & MRT - Malware Removal Tool (Helps prevent malicious files downloaded from the internet within Quarantine-aware applications.)
7. Easy Complex Passwords, Auto-Login = Bad, Require Password After Sleep or Screensaver, TouchID
8. Review Keychain Access (Stores your passwords and account information and reduces the number of passwords you have to remember and manage.)
9. Enable iCloud - Backup & Find My Mac (iCloud can backup specific items on your Mac, along with the ability to track it, send alert sound to it, lock it, and wipe it.)

Course Details:

Enable FileVault (Required to protect your data if your computer is stolen):

• I will be showing you how to enable FileVault and generating a Recovery Key for you to store in a Safe place.

Enable Firmware Password (Required to prevent your Mac from being used again if stolen):

• I will be showing you how to Boot into the Recovery Partition and Enabling a Firmware Password.

Enable Application Firewall (Control connections made to your computer from other computers on your network.):

• I will be showing you how to enable the Application Firewall.
• I will be showing how to Approve and Block Application connections into your computer. 

Enable SIP - System Integrity Protection (Helps prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac.):

• I will be showing how to check and see if SIP is enabled from the Terminal Application.
• I will show how to Boot into the Recovery Partition in order to enable System Integrity Protection.

Review Gatekeeper (Gatekeeper helps protect us from the applications we download from the Internet, not the App Store as those are already vetted by Apple.):

• I will show you the available options for Gatekeeper.
• I will show you Gatekeeper in action with a downloaded application from the Internet.

Enable Xprotect & MRT - Malware Removal Tool (Helps prevent malicious files downloaded from the internet within Quarantine-aware applications.)

• I will show you how to enable the proper updates to make sure the XProtect System is getting the latest security patches. 
• I will also show the XProtect and MRT system in action with a piece of Malware and with an outdated Adobe Flash Plugin.

Easy Complex Passwords, Auto-Login = Bad, Require Password After Sleep or Screensaver, TouchID:

• I will show you how to come up with a good complex password with the Password Assistant. 
• How to turn-off Auto-Login. 
• How to require a password after Sleep or ScreenSaver. 
• How to add a TouchID Fingerprint for Macs with TouchID.

Review Keychain Access (Stores your passwords and account information and reduces the number of passwords you have to remember and manage.)

• Review Login Keychain
• Review Local Items Keychain
• Review System Keychain
• Review System Roots Keychain
• Add Password Entry for Facebook to allow fast logins
• Add a Secure Note to keep data in a safe place.

Enable iCloud - Backup & Find My Mac (iCloud can backup specific items on your Mac, along with the ability to track it, send alert sound to it, lock it, and wipe it.)

• I will be showing you how to enable iCloud on your Mac
• I will be showing the different backup options within iCloud
• We will be enabling Find My Mac and  Location Services for Find My Mac to work.
• We will Track the Mac on a Map from the Find My iPhone app on iPhone, as well as from within a Browser.
• We will send an Alert Sound to the lost Mac.
• I will show how you can send a Lock or Wipe to your lost Mac in the event it was stolen from you.