🎯 What You'll Learn
- Navigate macOS and its Unix shell
- Understand the macOS security model
- Use built-in management tools
- Identify the platform’s attack surface
About This Workbook
macOS appears in more workplaces every year and brings its own security model. This workbook covers the environment, shell, security features and where its attack surface lies.
Chapter 1 — The Environment
Orientation to macOS and its Unix roots.
- Filesystem layout
- The shell on macOS
- App and package model
Chapter 2 — Security Model
How macOS protects itself.
- Gatekeeper and notarisation
- SIP and TCC
- Privileges
Chapter 3 — Administration
Managing and inspecting a macOS system.
- Command-line tools
- Logs
- Persistence locations
Keep going. Work through each chapter in order, then apply what you learned in the matching labs.