March 29, 2008...1:14 pm
IBM Security Blog comments on Apple vulnerabilities
IBM Internet Security Systems: “Apple is trailing Microsoft in security patch responsiveness – in fact, after inspecting their graphs, Apple appears to be trending entirely in the wrong direction; more vulnerabilities, longer patching times, more 0-days, etc. – not the sort of thing we expect from a well known software vendor.While I think that there are quite a few reasons why this is probably so, I’d be inclined to say that Apple’s biggest problem appears to be that they treat every new vulnerability as a potential PR disaster rather than an opportunity to visibly reinforce their work in securing their customers.”
The only way to improve your security posture is to acknowledge that you’re vulnerable and to continue to work on identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities. Apple doesn’t understand this yet- hopefully they’ll get it soon.
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