Introduced as a security feature in Mac OS X El Capitan, OS X System Integrity Protection (SIP) protects files, directories, and processes at the root level from being modified. For a lot of ...

Also part of Microsoft Security is ransomware protection. This protects certain files, folders ... ties in with other aspects of the operating system. Under Account protection are links to ...

Security and privacy are fundamental in the design of Apple File System. On OS X, Full Disk Encryption has been available since OS X 10.7 Lion. On iOS, a version of data protection that encrypts ...

El Capitan ships with a new OS X feature: System Integrity Protection (SIP), also known as “rootless” mode. This reduces the attack surface for malware that relies on modifying system files by ...

One of my favorite jokes about security people is that ... process isolation (sandboxing), file system abstraction and (usually) trusted bootloaders to ensure OS integrity at boot-time.

The latest operating system ... data protection is also a big part of the new OS release, Maddison said. Data protection combined with enforcement points across the Fortinet Security Fabric ...

Topics include thread and process management, virtual memory management, synchronization and communication, file systems, protection and security, operating system structure and extension techniques, ...