[Fed-Talk] RE: Fed-talk Digest, Vol 5, Issue 84
[Fed-Talk] RE: Fed-talk Digest, Vol 5, Issue 84
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] RE: Fed-talk Digest, Vol 5, Issue 84
- From: "Kim Cummings" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:56:54 -0400
- Thread-topic: Fed-talk Digest, Vol 5, Issue 84
Re: 2. OS security guides: Microsoft way ahead of Apple (Rex Sanders)
Something else I should have noted in my first response - in the article
you quoted, you didn't
include the rest of that paragraph, in which Arsenault also talks about
the guide for Office 2007.
He mentions that the guide for that is solid, even if it did take a
year-plus for them to release it.
The Office 2007 guide is far closer to the phase of development we are
in for the OS X guides. In
addition, I would contend that guidance for an operating system is far
more complex than for Office.
Kimberly Cummings Hersh
Apple Team Lead
NSA Systems and Network Analysis Center (SNAC)
410-854-5192
email@hidden
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:00:15 -0700
From: Rex Sanders <email@hidden>
Subject: [Fed-Talk] OS security guides: Microsoft way ahead of Apple
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032608-microsoft-security-concerns
.html?fsrc=netflash-rss
"Arsenault pointed out that the first operating system hardening guide
Microsoft wrote for Windows 2000 came 18 months after shipment of the
product; the next (for XP Service Pack 2) was within 90 days of product
shipment. With Vista and other new products, Microsoft ships the
hardening
guide along with the product."
XP SP2 shipped August 25, 2004, Vista shipped January 30, 2007.
Mac OS X Leopard shipped October 26, 2007.
Maybe we'll get a security guide next month - 5-6 months after Leopard
shipped.
Apple really needs to catch up to Microsoft here, especially for the
Federal market.
-- Rex
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