Apple Platform Security
- Welcome
- Intro to Apple platform security
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- System security overview
- Signed system volume security
- Secure software updates
- Rapid Security Responses
- Operating system integrity
- BlastDoor for Messages and IDS
- Lockdown Mode security
- System security for watchOS
- Random number generation
- Apple Security Research Device
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- Services security overview
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- Apple Pay security overview
- Apple Pay component security
- How Apple Pay keeps users’ purchases protected
- Payment authorization with Apple Pay
- Paying with cards using Apple Pay
- Contactless passes in Apple Pay
- Rendering cards unusable with Apple Pay
- Apple Card security
- Apple Cash security
- Tap to Pay on iPhone
- Secure Apple Messages for Business
- FaceTime security
- Glossary
- Document revision history
- Copyright
Firmware Password: This can be enabled in two ways: by the user or by an MDM administrator. This helps prevent a physically present attacker from launching alternate boot modes such as recoveryOS, Single User Mode, or target disk mode from which the booter can be overwritten. This also helps prevent booting from alternate media, by which an attacker could run code to overwrite the booter.