Pareto Security Blog

Compliance with various security regulations and standards is crucial for businesses of all sizes. However, generating compliance reports can be a tedious and time-consuming process. The good news is that Pareto Security offers a powerful solution to automate compliance reporting – the CSV Export feature. The CSV Export feature allows you to easily export data […]

Pareto Security for Teams REST API is a powerful tool that allows you to automate security reporting for your organization. With this feature, you can fetch all data about checks on all of your team’s devices and export it to various formats, making it easy to create compliance reports for SOC 2, ISO27001, UK’s Cyber […]

Knowing what the apps installed on your Mac are sending out to the internet is crucial if you care about privacy. A simple toolbar app such as Pareto Security shouldn’t send any unnecessary and potentially privacy-violating data. And we don’t! Read below how you can verify our claim. SpyBuster is a tool for analyzing network traffic […]

If you have clients that require high security standards, then they might appreciate a page that displays the status of your Mac’s security configuration. The page shows your Gravatar (if available) name, profile, websites, Mac name, and the status of your security checks. You can try it out by going to the device page. The […]

Ninite is a Windows software that allows you to bulk install and update programs easily. Until now, there was no easy solution to do that with Macs. We built Pareto Bulk Install to be very similar to Ninite, with a free version for bulk installing and a paid version, Pareto Updater, for bulk updating. You […]

We added support for running custom checks using the Auditor. This allows a far greater flexibility and covers the cases that we don’t currently support. If you wish to learn more and see examples check out the custom checks page.

The first beta of macOS 13 has been released, and I’ve noticed some exciting new features that are great for security-conscious people.  USB devices can be allowed or disallowed On portable Mac computers with Apple Silicon, new USB and Thunderbolt accessories require user approval before the accessory can communicate with macOS for connections wired directly […]

In this topic we’ll cover the basic Mac cyber security checklist. Macs have great security options out-of-box but not all of them are configured.

A lot has happened since our last blog post! Here’s a quick rundown.  New checks We’ve added checks for Software Updates. These track installed apps that could potentially be an attack vector and let you know when they’re outdated. MacOS version check was also added.  WiFi check lets you know when your connection is unsecure. […]

Less than a month after our invitation to Setapp, the Pareto app has been published and is now available on their app store. We’ve launched with 750 daily users which was definitely more than we expected. Here’s our graph from Setapp: We hope that even more Setapp users improve their Mac security in the future. […]