{"id":291,"date":"2007-06-28T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/06\/28\/windows-more-secure-os-x-better-commercials\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T18:38:55","slug":"windows-more-secure-os-x-better-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/06\/28\/windows-more-secure-os-x-better-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista: More Secure &#8211; OS X: Better Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/\">CSO Online<\/a>, Vista is the most secure desktop operating system available.\u00a0 Here is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/pdf\/6_Month_Vista_Vuln_Report.pdf\">full report<\/a>.\u00a0 The graph below shows how Vista compares with XP, Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE and Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/pdf\/6_Month_Vista_Vuln_Report.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.csoonline.com\/files\/6mo-reduced-high.PNG\" style=\"width: 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three months ago there were skeptical comments concerning the way each OS was installed before the vulnerability testing (see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.csoonline.com\/node\/218\">90 day report<\/a>).\u00a0 Some users stated that extra components not used by most users were causing the problems.\u00a0 The six-month study shows two separate graphs &#8211; one with a full install and one with a reduced build.\u00a0 The chart above shows the reduced build.\u00a0 Clearly all versions of Linux have more problems than XP or OS X.\u00a0 OS X has a slight advantage over XP when it comes to high severity vulnerabilities while OS X has\u00a0twice an many total\u00a0vulnerabilities as XP.\u00a0 If you read the report you will see that Apple takes significantly longer to repair problems than Microsoft does.<\/p>\n<p>It is good to see that Microsoft has finally gotten it right with Vista.\u00a0 Even <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grc.com\/securitynow.htm\">Steve Gibson<\/a> says Vista will probably end\u00a0up being the most secure desktop OS ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CSO Online, Vista is the most secure desktop operating system available.\u00a0 Here is the full report.\u00a0 The graph below shows how Vista compares with XP, Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE and Mac OS X. Three months ago there were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/06\/28\/windows-more-secure-os-x-better-commercials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}