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Administer gatekeeper

Administer gatekeeper - Mac OS Tutorial

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Administer gatekeeper

- [Instructor] Gatekeeper prevents applications and scripts from running unless those apps are known to be safe to run. You can of course choose to allow only items from the Apple-controlled App Store. That's pretty restrictive though as there are a lot of apps that are only available through other channels like Adobe Creative Suite for example. If you download and install apps from the internet or directly from a developer, macOS continues to protect your Mac. When you install Mac apps, plugins and installer packages from outside the App Store, macOS checks the developer ID signature and notarization status to verify that the software is from an identified developer and that it has not been altered. When Apple shipped macOS Mojave, developers could also have their app notarized by Apple. An indication that the app was uploaded to Apple and passed a security check before it was distributed. Then in Catalina…

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