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NIST platform security: roots of trust, firmware and secure enclaves SP 800-219
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has traditionally published secure configuration guides for Apple desktop/laptop operating system versions as prose-based Special Publications (SPs), such as NIST SP 800-179, Revision 1, Guide to Securing Apple macOS 10.12 Systems for IT Professionals: A NIST Security Configuration Checklist . NIST will no longer produce SP guidance documents for each macOS release but will instead continuously curate and update machine-consumable guidance as part of NIST’s macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) to keep up with each macOS release version.

The latest macOS security baseline content is maintained and updated on the mSCP GitHub page, https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security [1] . Security baselines are groups of settings used to configure a system to meet a target level or set of requirements or to verify that a system complies with requirements. The mSCP seeks to simplify the macOS security development cycle by reducing the amount of effort required to implement security baselines. This collaboration between federal agencies minimizes duplicate effort that would otherwise be needed for these agencies to administer individual security baselines. Additionally, the secure baseline content provided is easily extensible by other parties to implement their own security requirements.