This report has just been issued compiling the first year’s worth of security vulnerabilities found in Windows Vista, and comparing Windows XP and non-Microsoft OS’s first year vulnerabilities.
The report can be found here but here are a few highlights:-
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Metric |
Windows Vista (year 1) |
Windows XP (year 1) |
|
Vulnerabilities fixed |
36 |
65 |
|
Security Updates |
17 |
30 |
|
Patch Events |
9 |
26 |
|
Weeks with at least 1 Patch Event |
9 |
25 |
These figures may be merely interesting until you consider the cost saving implications of reduced patches. A customer told me recently that each patch event costs them £30K, so this yr 1 reduction in patches would have delivered a direct £480,000 per annum saving to them running Vista over Windows XP!! Then there’s the incalculable reduction in corporate risk from this reduction in vulnerabilities.
I won’t comment but it’s interesting to note the comparison to non-Microsoft operating systems. It certainly does fly in the face of some of the IT press reports that have surrounded Vista since it’s launch.
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Metric |
Windows Vista (year 1) |
Windows XP (year 1) |
Red Hat rhel4ws reduced (year 1) |
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS reduced (year 1) |
Mac OS X 10.4 (year 1) |
|
Vulnerabilities fixed |
36 |
65 |
360 |
224 |
116 |
|
Security Updates |
17 |
30 |
125 |
80 |
17 |
|
Patch Events |
9 |
26 |
64 |
65 |
17 |
|
Weeks with at least 1 Patch Event |
9 |
25 |
44 |
39 |
15 |
Not sure about the 30k per patch … I’d like to see more information on that [Rich]
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