Apple Mac OS X Lion – Know About The New Security Features

OS X Lion is said to be the best release ofApple‘s esteemed operating system ever and world’s most advanced OS.

The great new features of OS X Lion such as auto save, tracking your files and defaultapps like safari and Mail are making it more popular and admired among the users. Along with these apparent features there are some excellent under-the-hood features too which makes your system more secure both offline and online.

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The security feature in OS X Lion is highly advanced as compared to that provided by its predecessors. This new features makes hacking almost impossible and even tougher for the malicious websites to access your computer system.

Below is a description of the features of OS X Lion that you can use to make your computersystem even more secure and safe.

Turn On The Firewall

It is very easy to turn on the Firewall in OS X Lion. Go to the system preferences click on security and privacy click on Firewall. You may see a lock tab at the bottom. If you want to make changes to your firewall settings click on that lock tab and enable firewall. After you turn on the Firewall, the OS will automatically prompt for your permission to run any new application in your system. You can manually control the applications connecting to your web by turning on the firewall.

Encrypt Your Data

To encrypt the data, you again need to go to the system preference and then click the tab Filevault. This encrypts your hard drive just in a few clicks. The encryption in OS X Lion is much faster and easier.

Privacy

The browser safari 5.1 which is provided as a part of the OS X Lion is again multi-featured and is worth browsing. The “private auto fill” feature of Safari 5.1 not fills the web forms until you ask it to do so. You have the control to fill the specific fields which you want to be auto filled.

You can also delete the cookies or allow the cookies from any particular sites by changing the settings in “Privacy” option in the preference pane of the browser.

Wrapping up the best features of OS X Lion all that we can say that it is more secure and advanced than its predecessors but that doesn’t mean that it is not susceptible to attack. Whatever Operating system you are using, make sure you download the web files cautiously and from trusted sources.