![]() Using the SANS Institute course as a sister, this book caters to both the beginning home user and the seasoned security professional not accustomed to the Mac, establishing best practices for Mac OS X for a wide audience. It contains detailed Mac OS X security information, and walkthroughs on securing systems, including the new Snow Leopard operating system. popular, slash-dotted first edition and was written in part as a companion to the SANS Institute course for Mac OS X. ![]() When sharing is enabled or remote control applications are installed, Mac OS X faces a variety of security threats.Įnterprise Mac Security: Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a definitive, expert-driven update of the. ![]() While this might be true in certain cases, security on the Mac is still a crucial issue. ![]() Read moreĪ common misconception in the Mac community is that Mac’s operating system is more secure than others. We also discuss pairing the Apple Remote Desktop software with scripts and tools such as ARD Companion and NetRestore to create an easily managed and deployed OS X lab environment. We detail the advantages, disadvantages, and recommended use of each program. This paper and presentation discuss our experience with Apple's imaging tools as well as third-party imaging software. After consultation with Apple engineers and with colleagues from other schools, we settled on Mike Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner and NetRestore applications in conjunction with Apple Software Restore and Mac OS X Server's NetBoot feature. certain environments, or with post-flight modifications, but we found them to be unusable in our environment. Apple's OS X Server imaging tools work fine in. A month of testing left us frustrated with the Network Image Utility and the NetInstall procedure they simply did not work as advertised. Apple provided a free training session on its OS X Server Network Image Utility, and we jumped at the opportunity. In fall of 2003, our department decided to deploy OS X on our 100 or so Apple lab computers.
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