Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.
Microsoft's operating system was never designed with security in mind. For Microsoft, security is always an afterthought.
You have something called ALE average loss expectancy. You multiply the probability of an event happening with the amount of damage you'll incur, and that'll tell you how much to spend on security. When you deal with events that have a very, very high damage amount, and a very, very low probability of occurrence, you multiply infinity by zero and get whatever you want.
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
It's the dominant operating system out there, so it's going to attract the attention. On the other hand, Windows has extremely sloppy security,
What will happen when the CFO looks at his premium and realizes that it will go down 50 percent if he gets rid of all his insecure Windows operating systems and replaces them with a secure version of Linux The choice of which operating system to use will no longer be 100 percent technical, ... Microsoft, and other companies with shoddy security, will start losing sales because companies don't want to pay the insurance premiums.
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