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Platform Integrity
macOS protects its own operating system from tampering — even by root. Learn how System Integrity Protection, the Signed System Volume and the secure boot chain fit together, how to verify they are intact, and why kernel extensions are giving way to system extensions.
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- System Integrity Protection and the Signed System Volume
What SIP and the Signed System Volume protect on macOS, how to verify them, why they stay on in production, and how system extensions replace kernel extensions.