The Ultimate OS X Hardening Guide Collection
Many security professionals tend to use OS X systems. Maybe for the nice and shiny looks, or the Unix under pinnings that make it a great platform to run current tools. However, the operating system itself isn't exactly "secure out of the box" and like all operating systems can profit from some additional hardening tricks.
I have recently looked over a number of OS X hardening guides, and found that not many specifically address the latest version of OS X (Lion, 10.7), nor are they necessarily well maintained. Instead of coming up with another (soon to be outdated) guide, I am trying to come up with a "meta guide". If you know of a good hardening guide for OS X: Please let me know. Also, if there are any tricks that you find useful (or things that fired back and didn't work at all): Let me know too.
Most notably: Apple released a guide for each version of OS X up to Snow Leopard, but I can't find one for Lion. Does it exist?
Here are some of the guides that I have sound so far:
Apple: http://www.apple.com/support/security/guides/
NSA Guide: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/macosx_hardening_tips.pdf
Mac Shadows: http://www.macshadows.com/kb/index.php?title=Hardening_Mac_OS_X
Univ. Texas: https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/ISO/Mac+OS+X+Server+Hardening+Checklist
Center for Internet Security: http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/en-us/?route=downloads.browse.category.benchmarks.os.unix.osx
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.
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Comments
kyler
Feb 20th 2012
1 decade ago
Bill
Feb 20th 2012
1 decade ago
BGC
Feb 20th 2012
1 decade ago
This one can be added to the list.
http://www.safegadget.com/30/free-security-how-to-computer-security-computer-protection-on-macintosh/
sfmacuser
Feb 21st 2012
1 decade ago
some guy
Feb 22nd 2012
1 decade ago
http://www.securitygeneration.com/leopard/
It's currently up to date for Snow Leopard. I plan on updating this for Lion (or maybe go straight for Mountain Lion) soon.
SG
Feb 22nd 2012
1 decade ago
And for an in-depth <a href="http://www.htchd2android.com">HTC HD2 Android Install Guide</a>, this is your source.
Andrew
Feb 29th 2012
1 decade ago