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July 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard

Summer and work travel have really had an impact and I've missed a couple of months of scorecards, so last weekend, I decided to dig in and catch up to July. I hit a few road bumps: Sun changed their Security Alerts web site, making it a bit more challenging. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:47 PM by jrjones | 15 Comments

Windows Vista - 6-Month Vulnerability Study

I was nudged by some colleagues this week, telling me that some folks may only be reading my technet blog, but that I hadn't been doing a great job of cross-posting some things. Six months is a much more interesting time frame than the previous Windows Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:34 PM by jrjones | 1 Comments

2006 Client OS Days of Risk

As a follow-up to my previous Days-of-risk in 2006 : Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows , where I compare Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell SUSE, Apple Mac OS X and Sun Solaris, I've also completed a look at the latest client products that were available for Read More...
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007 9:19 PM by jrjones | 3 Comments

2006 Days of Risk Comparison

Among the other metrics that I track, I also periodically look at days-of-risk, or the average amount of time that customers are exposed to public vulnerabilities before a vendor provides a patch. You can take a look at the full findings on Days-of-risk Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 12:07 PM by jrjones | 2 Comments

March 2007 - Vuln Scorecard

I just posted my March 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard over on CSOOnline, which includes charts comparing the vulnerabilities in Windows, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Novell, Sun, and Mac OS X, broken down by server and workstation. Here is Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:01 PM by jrjones | 2 Comments

February 2007 - Vuln Scorecard

I just posted my February 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard over on CSOOnline, which includes charts comparing the vulnerabilities in Windows, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Novell, Sun, and Mac OS X, broken down by server and workstation. I do Read More...
Posted Friday, March 30, 2007 12:14 AM by jrjones | 1 Comments

Windows Vista 90 Day Vulnerability Analysis

February 28 th marked 90 days that Windows Vista had been available to business customers. Has it been a good or a bad 90 days for security vulnerabilities? Dang, this is a sweet chart, but click here to read all the details and download the full report Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:45 PM by jrjones | 9 Comments

Microsoft and Novell Linux Partnership

I've gotten quite a few questions about what this partnership means, but I think the best response is to point people to Bill Hilf on Port25 . Bill is the GM for platform strategy and the original guy who got the Linux/OSS interoperability lab started Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:54 AM by jrjones | 0 Comments
 
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