Apple Platform Security
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform security
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- System security overview
- Signed system volume security
- Secure software updates
- Background Security Improvements
- Operating system integrity
- BlastDoor for Messages and IDS
- Lockdown Mode security
- System security for watchOS
- Random number generation
- Communicating emergency information using satellites
- Apple Security Research Device
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- Services security overview
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- Apple Pay security overview
- Apple Pay component security
- How Apple Pay keeps users’ purchases protected
- Payment authorisation with Apple Pay
- Paying with cards using Apple Pay
- Contactless passes in Apple Pay
- Rendering cards unusable with Apple Pay
- Apple Card security
- Apple Cash security
- Tap to Pay on iPhone
- Secure Apple Messages for Business
- FaceTime security
- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright and trademarks
Intro to app security for macOS
App security in macOS consists of a number of overlapping layers, the first of which is the option to run only signed and trusted apps from the App Store. In addition, macOS layers protections to help ensure that apps downloaded from the internet are free of known malware.
macOS offers technologies to detect and remove malware, and offers additional protections designed to prevent untrusted apps from accessing user data. Apple services such as Notarisation and XProtect updates are designed to help prevent malware installation. When necessary, these services locate malware that may have at first avoided detection and then quickly and efficiently remove it. Ultimately, macOS users are free to operate within the security model that makes sense for them, including running completely unsigned and untrusted code.