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1809 may have some bugs that need to be worked out, but once it is fixed up, there are some security goodnesses in it that are worth mentioning. And
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – best security features of 1809]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
It’s a total disaster in matter of security and privacy looking from a technical standpoint. Windows is insecure by design, based partly on technology of around 20 years old. The security measuseres introduced are just patches to shield of the vulnerabilities. There are so many of those that monthly patching is required. Other operating systems are much more modern and designed from the ground up as secure. That’s the case with Unix, Linux, macOS, iOS and even (more recent versions of) Android. Basically indirectly all family of eachoteher. Under Windows, it will be always a race between bad guys and good guys to plug holes. A modern, secure by design OS has much less of those troubles. And if a leak is discovered, first of all it will be very difficult to abuse and easy to repair. Just because of the whole inner workings that are clean, modular and easily adjustable.
Susan,
Now list for me all the security exceptions, disabled security features etc. required to make customer’s applications run.
You don’t have to use windows defender – there are some third party enterprise level a/vs that are playing nice nice with the ATP stuff. The cloud forensics is very cool and very informative. My wish is that they bring this down to all versions of Windows 10.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
I’m not saying Windows Defender hasn’t improved. In fact, recently it has become quite decent. I still prefer not to put all my security eggs in one basket. This is largely a personal choice, not a value judgment.
BTW, it isn’t difficult to be a “Top Product” in those tests. However, any “Top Product” probably will do the job. As long as everyone has something, I won’t argue further over which is good, better or best.
I agree with Susan that bringing Cloud Intelligence (ATP Forensics) down to the Pro and Home editions of Windows Defender would be a great addition. Even though I am skeptical of Cloud AV, since that is sometimes synonymous with Crowd Sourcing, which I do not trust one bit. (The Wisdom of the Crowd is vastly overrated. Look at the Crowd during the French Revolution and thereafter, as described by sociologist LeBon. I think we can also find modern parallels.)
There’s good Cloud Intelligence and there’s bad Cloud Intelligence. Microsoft has for Enterprise users, a good model. Let’s encourage them to bring this model to Pro and Home users.
-- rc primak
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