This paper addresses operating system hardening in terms of patching, administration roles and setting passwords. It also provides information on Apple Macintosh OS X network security: namely, basic firewall configuration and hardening of network services such as FTP, SSH and the Apache web server.
Securing Mac OS X
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Just turn it on. No exploitable services are on by default. Okay, sure run SoftwareUpdate to get all the patches for everything that isn’t even enabled, but besides that.. Mac OS X is pretty safe.
Yeah, that’s the true joy of OS X. It’s set up with sound security in mind.
However, there are times when you need to be extra paranoid and this paper goes into good detail about how to make your OS X workstation nigh unhackable.
This article skips some of the real meat of securing OSX. Call it a decent introduction, maybe. It fails completely to address netinfo/open directory in a multi-computer situation.
Does anyone have a link for OS X server and Windows clients. Security is a real issue with windows workstations. I am wondering, what kinds of security concerns they might have with Apple’s config. of SAMBA.
I’m a designer who happens to have to administer a network of a few macs in a studio. We have open access to each others systems (i.e know each others passwords so the casual wandering worker doesn’t mess! but a simple locked door if we are all out to lunch is better!)
This does some up things well if i did have to get a little more dictatoral about how people use their systems or i was in charge of more people who were’nt so trustworthy….and i had to be a little more paranoid!
Compared to what needs to be done in order to secure pre-service pack 2 Windows XP, this is simple ;^)
http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/NIST_WinXP_draft_R1.0.1_07042004.zip