HACKER Q&A
📣 starwind

What's the best way to keep my Mac secure?


I know hn has a pretty low opinion of antivirus software. Is XProtect and a skeptical view towards links and software enough to keep it secure, or should I do something else?

  👤 MadsRC Accepted Answer ✓
If it’s for personal use, I find the tooling found at Objective See’s website to be great. The RansomWhere utility can be noisy, but I don’t mind it. Link: https://objective-see.com/index.html

For enterprise use, I can highly recommend Crowdstrike Falcon.

👤 tedmiston
You might try an endpoint security product like Kolide with a single-user org. Perhaps, it sounds like overkill, but there's a free trial period that you could use to button up any loose ends specifically.

https://www.kolide.com/

I also run Malwarebytes regularly. It's never found anything for me personally, but I'm a very cautious user, and others I've recommended it to have found meaningful results that they didn't know otherwise.