Hardening macOS

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  • CIS-for-macOS-Catalina-CP

    CIS Benchmarks for macOS Catalina

  • You can get most of the way to hardening to CIS level 1 picking more up-to-date fork of these https://github.com/jamf/CIS-for-macOS-Catalina-CP.

    FWIW, CIS level 1 will mean people get locked out of their machines very frequently. Complex 15 character passwords with 3 retries from memory. So you need a half-decent MDM to unlock quickly. There is no half-decent MDM out there. Only shit ones but workable like Jamf.

    Also you the username does't get auto-populated on login so the typo can be in username and user assumes it is with password. Very fast way to get lock outs.

    To pass a full security review you might want to play with Google Santa. But that is intense.

  • santa

    A binary authorization and monitoring system for macOS

  • > Install and configure Google’s Santa.

    Interesting, I'd never heard of this before. "A binary authorization system for macOS". Open source.

    https://github.com/google/santa

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  • macos_security

    macOS Security Compliance Project

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