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ERNW White Paper 77: Unified Security Hardening with Cross-Platform Native Binaries

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When configuring a new device, achieving an acceptable Lynis hardening score is a challenge most practitioners are familiar with.

One More Thing: Introducing the New macOS 26 Tahoe Hardening Guide

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After seven years, we’re publishing a new macOS hardening guide. Fully updated, modernized, and now publicly available on GitHub as Markdown and on our website as PDF.

The previous guide, written for macOS Mojave (10.14), reflected a very different macOS security model. At the time, hardening often meant working around the operating system, manually enforcing controls, and compensating for missing platform guarantees. That guide served its purpose, but the platform has fundamentally changed since then.

macOS Mojave Hardening Guide

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Due to the new release of macOS Mojave in September we updated the El Capitan hardening guide.

The hardening guide received a little revamp on some chapters which are now obsolete or had to be changed due to the new features of macOS Mojave. Further, the hardening guide got extended for the new privacy features in macOS Mojave.

You can check it out here. We hope some of you might find it helpful.
Cheers,
Birk