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Microsoft: State of the Security Union is Good
Twice a year, Microsoft issues its Security Intelligence Report (SIR), part of an ongoing effort at transparency and customer education. This week, Microsoft has issued its seventh SIR, and the results are actually somewhat comforting. Within the wider context of Microsoft security, the state of the union is good.
The least surprising trend confirmed by the SIR is that newer Microsoft operating systems are routinely more secure than the OSes they replace. Windows Vista, for example, is infected with malware about 62 percent less frequently than is the aging Windows XP that so many businesses still rely on. (But that’s just with the very latest XP version; Vista with SP1 was infected fully 85 percent less XP RTM.) These are astonishing differences.
But it’s not just a version to version trend: Microsoft has also found, within any given Windows version, those systems with the latest service packs are more secure than those on previous service packs. The message here is clear: Keeping up to date with modern Windows versions and the very latest security fixes are key ways that you can keep your users more secure.
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