TechTips Vol II – Mac HowTo Security
Don’t be fooled. Just because you are virus free, doesn’t mean you’re hacker proof. Secure your mac..
10 Most Essential Steps to secure your Mac
Break Down
- Set screen saver to turn on after 15 min (what you deem relevant) of inactivity
- Set security to require password after wake and after screen saver
- Disable Auto Login
- Set a very good login password, 8 characters, letters, numbers, capitals.. Use a phrase
- i.e. Three Blind Mice went up the Clock.
- So the password could be 3BMwutCl0ck
- Check Secure Virtual Memory
- Use the built in firewall