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Study Shows Windows Beats Linux on Security

Wipro surveyed 90 companies in the U.S. and Western Europe with 2,500 to 113,000 employees where both the Windows and open source operating systems were simultaneously being run. When the costs of updating are distributed across the size of the environment and evaluated on a per-asset basis, the study shows Microsoft software to be less expensive to patch than open source equivalents. These findings confirm what many customers are experiencing in their deployment scenarios.
Ref. https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/feature...06-23WiPro.mspx

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I think a factor that is not often taken into account with security is the ease at which security is employed. That fact of the matter is that anyone can crack open anyone of three dozen windows security books and secure windows. Linux is not so easy to secure, even for people who know linux. This article focus's on cost but not securability. Of the people who read this post, I would venture that almost 90% will know how to add a user to a new group on a windows server, but less than 10% will know how to add a new group to a user on a linux box (assuming the title draws mostly techies). The fact is that you cannot secure what you don't know. So lack of product knowledge plays a factor in how secure linux can be. I have had allot of people argue with me that linux is just more secure by design, when you take that approach, you are in for it, because a linux system that is not properly secured, in the hands of a linux expert, can be hacked to pieces just as easily as a windows box. Not as many viruses and spybots run on linux because its not that widely used.

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I was once very impressed and would swear by the security that Linux had over Windows. Over the past few years this has changed dramatically for me. While Windows has always had ease of use and was building security for their products Linux did just the opposite. Linux started with a very stable and secure yet not very friendly interface and in efforts to make it more appealing and easier to use have lost their hold on security.

Go Bill!

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Bwren, can you give some examples of how Linux is lacking in security now? Wouldn't they be also making patches as they bring on the new user-friendly features?

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My most recent flaw that I have dealt with was the security in particular associated with the proxy abilities. While it is quite simple to limit the amount of information that is cached and even the file type that is cached I had an unbearable time attempting to limit certain sites from this as well as which ports I wished to limit the proxy to serving. More basically I was attempting to only serve as an outgoing proxy for ports such as 80, 81, and 21 and leave the rest free to flow out without interference. While attempting this I found that as I limit the ports that it controlled outbound I could not separate that from what it would control inbound as well. So as I opened a port such as 3389 so that I did not have remote desktop draining processor time from the server I in turn was leaving that port unprotected from incoming traffic on that port as well.

*I finally found a third party program that would serve more appropriately for what I was attempting to control.

Yes they do release patches as they go to prevent security issues but if you have ever had to wait for a fix for Windows you know how terrible the between time can be. Linux is actually quite a bit slower at releasing patches than Microsoft is. (My personal experience concerning patches that I have had to wait on but not a fact by any means.)