Re: [Fed-Talk] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Remediating & Patching Macs
Re: [Fed-Talk] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Remediating & Patching Macs
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Remediating & Patching Macs
- From: "Gordon, Robert D (Bob (macman)) JR CTR DTRA J6 (US)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:47:41 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Non-DoD Source] Re: [Fed-Talk] Remediating & Patching Macs
DoD has moved passed and then some. But some Wintel losers still exist.
On 3/31/16 2:02 PM,
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>Wow. Haven't we seen this film over and over and over again going back
>decades? Thought DOD had moved past that.
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>Joe
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>> Subject: [Fed-Talk] Remediating & Patching Macs
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>> Although there is no mandate from NAVSEA or NSWC to ban macs, it seems
>>as
>> if they are trying to get rid of them on base.
>>
>> General theme is macs are dead through attrition. Can only replace a
>>Mac if u
>> provide a POAM & business plan that demonstrates
>>
>> how you plan to move your software off the Mac to a PC platform with the
>> funding and timeline in place.
>>
>>
>> They complained that we were doing updates directly through Apple and
>>not
>> through DISA servers. Was afterwards able to give them the
>>
>> link for the STIG put out by DISA/NIST section 3.2 Software Updates that
>> states Apple Computer is a DOD approved resource for updates.
>>
>> They complained that we don't have an automatic process in place to push
>> updates to the macs. And it seems that a presentation
>>
>> was given that showed Macs are not as secure as Linux & Windows
>>machines.
>>
>>
>> What I'm looking for is how other places remediate and patch their
>>Macs. Is
>> there a way to push the updates to Macs? Are there any
>>
>> good documented cases that show a fair comparison of how secure each
>> platform is? I have a feeling someone saw the article that
>>
>> stated Macs aren't as secure because there were more CVEs issued to OS X
>> than any other software and ran with it. Of course,
>>
>> that doesn't take into account the severity of each, time taken to
>>patch, and
>> probably a host of other data points I'm not thinking about.
>>
>>
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