Your people are your weakness
The data tells its own story. OC explains: Employees account for 57% of all security incidents and 45% of these incidents come when workers bypass or ignore security policies by, for example, using unapproved tools.
Attackers are actively searching for and exploiting those kinds of policy workarounds, seeking weaknesses in commonly used, but unapproved, tools. Users really should educate themselves.
While companies can put some mitigations in place using device management and policy controls to constrain app use and downloads across their endpoints, Apple is also working to keep systems secure with a focus on the Terminal app.
Terminal’s early warning system
In this case, it will introduce new malware warnings and protections to help prevent people from using Terminal to override system security to install malware-laden scripts. That’s the attack vector currently being used in the ClickFix series of attacks, which use fake macOS utilities to trick Mac users into doing just that.
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