Security Preferences

After stepping through the welcome screen and the various setup questions that you are presented with, you will finally be shown a rather sparse Desktop screen with a Harddisk icon to your right and a Dock at the bottom of your screen.

The first thing I usually do is to setup some Security Preferences. Begin this process by clicking the System Preferences icon on your Dock at the bottom of your screen.



You will then see several rows of icons. Click on the icon that says Security.



There are three tabs in the Security Pane. The first is called General. I usually recommend ticking "Require password..." and "Disable automatic login" as seen below.



The next tab is called FileVault. I usually do NOT recommend turning on FileVault but I strongly recommend setting a master password so that no one else can sabotage you (on purpose or by accident) and lock you out of your own data.

So please do go ahead and click "Change..." to set a master password. Be sure to set something that you will definitely remember. If you do forget the password and you accidentally turn on FileVault, you will lock yourself out of your own data.



That concludes what I do with the Security Pane in System Preferences.