Checking XProtect and Gatekeeper update status on Macs

As part of making sure that XProtect and Gatekeeper are providing up-to-date protection, it can be worthwhile to see when your Mac received the latest updates from Apple for both XProtect and Gatekeeper. As both are background processes, as well as also receiving Config Data updates silently in the background, it’s not always obvious when updates have been applied.

To assist with this, I’ve written a couple of scripts to report the last time that Gatekeeper and XProtect have been updated on a particular Mac. For more details, see below the jump.