The combination of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper and Apple’s recently enacted sandboxing requirement for the Mac App Store will provide Mac users with significant protection from attackers, but ...

By default, Gatekeeper will allow apps from the Mac App Store to be installed, as well as other apps that have been signed using a special certificate given to registered OS X developers.

Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will automatically default Gatekeeper to only allow users to download software from the Mac App Store, and software that’s certificate has been digitally signed by a ...

Gatekeeper Slams the Door on Mac Malware Epidemics. There are three ways to attack a computer — gain physical access, hit it over the network, or trick the user into running something they shouldn’t.

Apple introduced Gatekeeper in 2012, creating it as a method of protection for users against malicious threats by adding various layers of security during installation of Mac apps. The feature is ...

Apple provides three basic settings for Gatekeeper in OS X Mountain Lion, but you can manage this service in finer detail if needed. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Gatekeeper is an OS X security feature that, by default, blocks all applications but those downloaded from the Mac App Store, or (optionally) apps from “identified developers.” ...

By default, Gatekeeper is not enabled in Mac OS X v10.7.3. For testing purposes, you can turn it on by using the new Mac OS X system policy control command-line tool, spctl(8).

When sandboxing and Gatekeeper become de facto Mac standards, certain behaviors of automation technologies like AppleScript and Automator will change. Here's how.

It works invisibly in the background, meaning it needs no maintenance or activation and doesn’t slow down your Mac. Gatekeeper, meanwhile, will prevent the app from opening without your ...

Apple employed a Gatekeeper for its Macs to do one job: keep unsigned, unverified software out. It might be time to fire Gatekeeper, or hire a new one, as its failures have again been shown up by ...

Newer versions of OS X have a Gatekeeper feature that prevents apps from unidentified developers from installing without your okay. Typically, to approve apps you want to install, you have to go ...