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I've had similar thoughts. I can make a fairly strong case that the best platform for me to access sensitive information from is iOS (specifically my iPad). It'
by cletus 14y ago
I've had similar thoughts. I can make a fairly strong case that the best platform for me to access sensitive information from is iOS (specifically my iPad). It's sandboxed and comparatively secure.
Using Windows these days just seems like asking for trouble on the spyware/malware front. Some of it is your machine getting owned, other times its just missing a checkbox on a program install that installs a browser bar that does God knows what.
My Macbook Air is pretty much my computer of choice these days (with very little third party software). Soon Apple will require sandboxing on the Mac App Store too. Linux of course also being a much better choice than Windows from a security point of view.
On the browser front I can't see myself using anything other than Chrome. Part of this is feature-related and the whole one process per tab thing but it's also the most security-conscious browser IMHO (disclaimer: I work for Google but not on Chrome).
- gouranga 14y agoWe've got 135 on site users, 25 mobile users and about 500 windows machines and VMs floating around. We haven't had any machines "owned" at all...
- simonbrown 14y agoAs far as you know.
- rdl 14y agoWell managed and secured Windows 7 is actually probably more secure than any other major desktop OS right now (iOS blows it out of the water of course). OSX is more secure out of the box for a single user deployment perhaps (largely due to being less of a target), but in a corporate environment, it's harder to really lock down OSX than anything else. Sadly.
- gouranga 14y agoIndeed. Our security police means that we have to put our iOS and Macs on the DMZ rather than internal network.
- gouranga 14y agoOh believe me, we know.
- anextio 14y agoFamous last words. Sorry, but a basic principle of security is to assume that you are already 'owned'.
- gouranga 14y agoActually no, that's part of risk assessment i.e reactive security. A better basic principle is guard all your doors, windows (excuse the pun) and cracks religiously (proactive).