{"id":5533,"date":"2008-06-03T16:51:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/wise-up-on-leopard-security\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:30:27","slug":"wise-up-on-leopard-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wise-up-on-leopard-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise up on Leopard security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/06\/leopard.jpg\" alt=\"Leopard\" align=\"right\" \/>Keeping your Mac safe isn&#8217;t the most difficult of things. As I previously wrote, Macs are generally well protected against any sort of threat, and if you&#8217;ve followed my advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/tightening-up-your-macs-security\/\">tightening up security<\/a> by configuring your firewall and making sure your screen is locked, you shouldn&#8217;t have any problems.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who still feel a little paranoid, and have time on their hands, should take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/server\/macosx\/docs\/Leopard_Security_Config_20080530.pdf\">Leopard security configurations guide<\/a> released by Apple today. This guide is clearly aimed at experienced Mac users though as it really goes into details on Mac&#8217;s security architecture and each and every sensitive areas. Consider it like a map of the bank and how to keep it safe from robbers. Leopard offers a number of security improvements, including better Trojan horse protection, stronger runtime security, easier network security and improved secure connectivity, that this guide takes into account.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting read, the security configurations guide for Leopard conscientiously takes you through each and every security issue: global system settings, accounts, system preferences, data and encryption, system swap and hibernation storage. For the ultra geeks out there there&#8217;s even a security checklist for action items at the end of the document. This can actually be very useful if you handle systems in a company, but I wouldn&#8217;t really worry about it on your home computer.<\/p>\n<p>The advanced security management section will teach you all you need to know about managing authorization rights, maintaining system integrity detecting intrusions or auditing system activity.<\/p>\n<p>Worth a read if you&#8217;re curious as to how your Mac handles security, to check out the improvements in Leopard and to keep your Mac safe at all times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping your Mac safe isn&#8217;t the most difficult of things. As I previously wrote, Macs are generally well protected against any sort of threat, and if you&#8217;ve followed my advice on tightening up security by configuring your firewall and making sure your screen is locked, you shouldn&#8217;t have any problems. Those of you who still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wise-up-on-leopard-security\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wise up on Leopard security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336068,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/336068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}