Hey, remember when we were looking at how long it takes Apple to patch compared to other vendors? Well, it looks like somebody took that same concept and ran with it - extending the sample set in order to get better data. Not for nothing, but their more scientifically rigorous approach bears out the humble conclusions that we came up back in March (man I love being right). ;-)
Anyway, in "A Time to Patch III: Apple" (to give due props, I came across it via reference on Emergent Chaos), they tracked how long it takes for Apple to patch vulnerabilities compared to other vendors that have the same vulnerabilities (like Linux, BSD, etc.) The article is worth a read both for the data, but don't neglect to read the humorous comments just below.
Posted by Ed at May 2, 2006 09:46 AM | TrackBack