The Truth About OS X Security

While this theory of “potential” and “actualised” does give a nice outline in terms of different systems and popularity, the fact will still remain that Windows [hasta la Vista] or otherwise will, IMO, remain the high point of focus of attack.

Quite simply Windows is still windows, maybe with some extra ‘Window Bars’ in place but the arseholes who still try to access it, won’t be deterred just because of that.

They are so used to the inner workings of Windows that the little bit extra trouble they may have to go to to get in, won’t be the major deterrent people may think it will be.

Mac OSX, while undoubtedly still does have many unrealised potential flaws, will still not attract those ‘moths to the light’ in droves as conceptualised.

I use Windows, but also use Macs in my business, and I am under no illusion that just because I use a Mac I am safe, no, I still practice safe browsing, don’t open any emails [read in plain text anyway] I don’t know who the sender is, etc.

There can be no doubt that a lot of those potential flaws in Mac OS will be realised, one would be an idiot to stick their head in the sand, but to the extent of it becoming a major crisis, I don’t think so.

Your above thoughts is very well written, and I like that ‘potential’ / ‘actualised’ concept btw. Firt time I have seen it put like that and it’s so simple a thought, that like many things, you wonder why it’s not been stated before. [Maybe it has, just I have not seen it, lol]

See ya. Blue

Excellent points, Blue.

You could hypothesise that the fact Mac has so few ‘actualised’ flaws that it would actually make it a bigger target for a virus writer or hacker… And yet there’s no increase in ‘actualised’ flaws.

Could it be that it all boils down to a numbers game? Windows boxes are randomly scanned for potential botnets,etc., while as long as there is a known vulnerabity in OSX, it might be used for a very specific targeted attack to gain intellectual property? Would MAC users generally use their machines for specifically focused uses, ie. creative things such as design, mucic creation, etc., and as such be a different kind of target for theft?

Hmm, I think that most people who use Macs are using them for everything. I have not met anyone who uses Macs for one part of their work but then uses Windows for their main OS. If they have a Mac at home, they tend to love it and use it for everything they do.

http://www.riskmanagementinsight.com/media/docs/FAIR_introduction_DRAFT_v20.pdf

Jack Jones’ FAIR (he just one one of the RSA awards for this thing, and has spoken about it to our local ISSA chapter) uses the same style of arguments, but with a little more structure.

Essentially, if you use his model, the Threat Community Capabilities, the Frequency of Threat Events, the Control Strengths of OS X, when quantified and put into his risk analysis framework, lead me to believe that there is much less risk surrounding the use of OS X vs. Windows for the same data (or, in his language, the Loss Magnitudes would be the same for an incident, regardless of operating system used because we would suffer the same sources of loss).

Regarding use (Rob’s post above): Once OS X switched to a UNIX core I think it bought Apple a lot of “street cred”. Two Fortune 500 CiSO’s I personally know, and many “deep geeks” both in development and in attack and penetration have switched to OS X as their main platform. None of whom are naive enough to operate without the proper controls.

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