Took a leap of faith from Windows to Mac today! How to secure Mac?

[blackbirdz]

Today, my new MacBook Pro arrived. I have been using Windows like forever (since 1990) and today moving to MacOS. It took a lot of faith for me to make this jump and I am glad I did it.

Now, My objective is very simple:

How do I secure this MacBook so that if it is missing or stolen, I or the thief will not be able to do password recovery to login? I have password protected account, but from resources online, if you forgot the password, you can do recovery by Disk Utility Ctrl-R or something and do reset password, login and the files are still there.

Should I use root account instead? So that when I forgot the password or the laptop got stolen, nobody would be able to do password recovery. Thanks.

 

[keysofanxiety]

You can:

1) Set a firmware password to prevent people from booting into Recovery HD: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204455

2) Set up FileVault so the drive will be encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204837

3) Set up Find My Mac so you can remotely lock/wipe your computer if it's stolen: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205362

 

[KALLT]

Just enable FileVault and you are good to go.

Never ever, ever, enable the root account.