Securing Your Apple Devices
Last week I gave a talk at Victor Medina’s excellent MILOfest conference about How to Secure Your Mac Law Firm. In preparing for the talk, I developed the following set of best practices that any lawyer using Apple devices should employ to help protect their law firm’s data:
Securing Your Desktops/Laptops
- Upgrade to OS X Lion and enable FileVault 2 for full disk encryption. Read more about FileVault 2 and Lion here.
- Enable the off-by-default firewall.
- Set your screen saver / lock screen to activate after 5 or fewer minutes of activity.
- Disable automatic login.
- Enable Find my Mac