Microsoft has been named a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms, Q2, 2024, and received the highest scores in both strategy and current offering categories, as well as in the market presence category.
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Once again, my effort to explore common misperceptions (more recently exploring unpatched statistics) has brought out some of the common objections from those that don’t necessarily like the results. Very rarely do I get comments that can find a substantive problem with the analysis – instead the arguments tend to be detailed variations of “your comparison […]
How many of you have heard “many eyes make all bugs shallow”? My guess is that many of you have and that it may have been in conjunction with an argument supporting why Linux and Open Source products have better security. For example, Red Hat publishes a document at www.redhat.com/whitepapers/services/Open_Source_Security5.pdf, which they commissioned from TruSecure […]
How many of you have heard of the Common Criteria ? If you’ve ever done security work with government, you probably have. If not, then possibly not. Either way, read on and I’ll give you my own view, including some of the barnacles clinging to the hull of the general program. Common Criteria Background Way […]
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based unified endpoint management platform that empowers IT to manage, assess, and protect apps and devices.
You’ve probably already read Brian Krebs article A Time to Patch III: Apple, but if you haven’t, I encourage you to read it and read the various responses he received – the responses run the gamut of Linux advocates (“You do understand that Mac OS X is not a version of Linux, and is not […]
