Pareto Security
macOS App

Avoid common security mistakes on your Macs

Pareto Security macOS App makes sure your Mac devices are correctly configured for security.

Avoid easily preventable security misconfigurations on your Macs

A simple menu bar app that regularly checks your Mac's native security settings. It helps you take care of 20% of security tasks that prevent 80% of problems.

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Pareto Security helped me to detect 3 security leaks and decided me to enable FileVault. Lightweight, discreet and efficient. Top feature: automatic checks.

Pareto Security macOS App
Why use Pareto Security?

How Pareto Security keeps you safe

Here are a few completely scenarios that can happen if you have your Mac's security misconfigured.

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Mike forgot to enable FileVault disk encryption after OS reinstall, then someone stole his MacBook, and now they have all of his photos, documents, and business files.

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Suzie turned off the Firewall to debug a router, did not remember to turn it back on, and accidentally exposed her local webserver to the entire Starbucks network.

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James lent his MacBook to mom for a weekend, forgot he enabled automatic login for her convenience, then found his son playing on his company's Slack.

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Paul needed to turn off Gatekeeper to install an app he found on the Internet, then failed to turn it back on again, and his Mac got infected with malware.

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Marie did not set auto-updating of apps and got hacked because she was not running a recent app version with the security patch applied.

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Mia used her MacBook for a presentation, disabled automatic screen locking, forgot to re-enable it, only to find coworkers having fun with her Facebook.

The simplest security is the most important

32 Security Checks

24 Security Checks

Aimed at regular users, not security geeks.
Zero Hassle

Zero Hassle

Running automagically in the background. Snoozable.
32 Security Checks

Transparent & Private

Open-sourced. Runs locally on your device.

What does the app check?

Pareto Security app follows Center for Internet Security benchmark guidelines.
The app currently verifies 23 out of 73 checks quoted as automated. More are coming soon.

A few months after I bought my new Air, I was checking some settings, and I noticed with horror that FileVault was turned off. When I started thinking of all the travel I did and where I left my Mac, I broke out in cold sweat. I have important company documents on my computer that would be easily accessible if anyone got their hands on it.

So I was telling this story to my coworker, and we were musing at my carelessness. Then I asked him to check his computer with our app, then in just the alpha version. And, lo and behold, his FileVault was also disabled. He couldn't believe it. Same as me, he was 100% sure he had it turned on.

Macs have great security out-of-box. But it's not worth anything if it's not turned on. Pareto Security makes sure it is.

Nejc Zupan

Founder of Pareto Security

Pareto Security is focused on privacy and transparency.

The device owner keeps full control over the device and the app. Only the following data sent is to Pareto Security servers every eight hours:

  • The passed, failed, and disabled checks
  • Unique device ID & device name
  • macOS and app version
  • Date and time of last check

All Pareto Security apps are open source.

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