Will Macs Be The New Secure Solution? Is Switching To A Mac a Security Solution?
Despite the fact that corporate interest is growing in Macs, they haven’t been able to penetrate the market.
There’s just one problem. “Apple will tell you that they are focused on [the commercial business market], but at the end of the day, it’s not a big priority for them,” says David Daoud, an analyst at IDC.
A big reason Macs are getting this kind of attention is due to people’s perception that they are more secure. Even the US military has begun using them.
He points out that Apple’s X Serve servers, which are gradually becoming more commonplace in Army data centers, are proving their mettle. “Those are some of the most attacked computers there are. But the attacks used against them are designed for Windows-based machines, so they shrug them off,” he says.
The question is two-fold; is this lack of corporate interest better for businesses in the short-term and is this a security alternative based on obscurity?
My quick answers are that Apple will make it a priority when the money justifies it and that Macs have more inherent security but won’t have such a spotless image once a few clever teenagers turn their attention to them.
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