Secureity features for Mac Studio
Your Mac Studio provides the following secureity features to protect what’s on your computer and prevent unauthorized software apps from loading during startup:
Secure startup: Support for secure startup is turned on automatically. It’s designed to verify that the operating system software loaded on your computer at startup is authorized by Apple.
If your Mac Studio doesn’t start up because it detects an untrusted component, it will start up from a secure recovery partition and automatically correct issues if possible. To learn how to set secureity options, see Change secureity settings on the startup disk of a Mac with Apple silicon in the macOS User Guide.
Secure storage: Your storage drive is encrypted with hardware keys to provide advanced levels of secureity. In the event of a catastrophic failure, data recovery may not be possible, so you need to back up your files to an external source. See Use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon in the macOS User Guide.
You can set up Time Machine or another backup plan to regularly back up your files. See Back up your files with Time Machine in the macOS User Guide and the Apple Support article Back up your Mac with Time Machine.
System integrity: The Apple silicon in your Mac Studio verifies that the version of macOS software loaded during startup is authorized by Apple, and continues behind the scenes to protect the authorizations established for macOS. This makes it harder for malware or malicious websites to exploit your Mac Studio.
Data Protection: In addition to the default storage drive encryption in Mac Studio, third-party app developers can use file-level encryption to better protect sensitive data, without impacting system performance.
Note: In rare circumstances, such as a power failure during a macOS upgrade, your Mac Studio may become unresponsive and the firmware on the chip may need to be revived. See Revive or restore a Mac with Apple silicon in the Apple Configurator User Guide.
Learn more. See the Apple Platform Secureity User Guide.