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These activities are fine, but if you download a malicious app that secretly logs your keystroke and sends sensitive data to a malicious actor, that’s a problem.

Apps partake in activities all the time: your email app downloads new messages, apps periodically check for updates, and Dropbox syncs newly changed files.

How can you be sure that all those connections are genuine?

Take a look at all the processes in the Activity Monitor > Network tab.

But many processes running in the background also send and receive data.

Most apps that you use on your Mac have a visible interface and continuously exchange data between your machine and servers located elsewhere.

How can an average user utilize outgoing traffic data? Let’s illustrate with some examples.

However, you can monitor outgoing connections as well. The built-in firewall gives you the ability to monitor and block incoming connections.