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The main security benefit you get from not using Windows is almost purely that Windows is the most common, and thus the most targeted. And even that is changing
by user-the-name 5y ago
The main security benefit you get from not using Windows is almost purely that Windows is the most common, and thus the most targeted. And even that is changing, as Windows slowly wanes in popularity and high-value targets use other systems.
- staticassertion 5y agoNot really true. There are a number of problems with Windows and, more generally, the Microsoft ecosystem. One clear area is that Windows has very weak separation of admin from user. There are tons of great mechanisms like integrity levels, but for a user's laptop Microsoft does not consider UAC to be a boundary between user and Admin and so escalations are ubiquitous. This is certainly not the case with OSX and Linux. Windows also has a litany of persistence mechanisms, far more than I'm aware of with OSX and Linux. The Windows registry is this incredible hive of ways to execute code. There's all sorts of debt involved that really puts Windows at a disadvantage, despite their significant investments that we should all celebrate. Once you add things like Word, Active Directory, etc, it gets really bad. If you're building a traditional "microsoft" network you're setting yourself up for ransomware.