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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 703799">Corporation/Enterprise targets can be ancillary to consumers. In large part, that&#039;s the point of an attack against a corporation is to leverage their IP and that IP is usually filled with consumer/client assets. However what we often see are consumers becoming collateral damage to corporate attacks. Also we&#039;re seeing this becoming a huge issue with BYOD where consumers are bringing targeted threats into a corporate ecosystem allowing a compromise. It&#039;s a complex issue that impacts everyone.The complexities of the threats, the varied/blended vectors and overall lack of security concerns by certain vendors, recklessness of our Intel organizations, are all collecting into a perfect storm. Windows is ill-prepared for the modern threat landscape and it&#039;s becoming woefully evident with each passing day. Windows is still an acceptable OS, I use it for gaming but let&#039;s not for a minute think it&#039;s secure and safe in any form by educating a user on what not to run and installing a basic AV. That&#039;s delusional speak. These aren&#039;t the old days bro where you can install Spybot Tea Timer and be a hero.ChromeOS perfect? No. Secure? Very. The worst you are going to get on it is an Android App that causes annoyance or a bad extension in chrome. Nothing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + R won&#039;t fix in 20-25 seconds (Powerwash). There is a reason the EDU market is now 60% ChromeOS and will likely be virtually the entire EDU market in 5 years or less. Do yourself a favor - if Aunt Sue needs a laptop toss her a Chromebook and show her how to use it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 703799"] Corporation/Enterprise targets can be ancillary to consumers. In large part, that's the point of an attack against a corporation is to leverage their IP and that IP is usually filled with consumer/client assets. However what we often see are consumers becoming collateral damage to corporate attacks. Also we're seeing this becoming a huge issue with BYOD where consumers are bringing targeted threats into a corporate ecosystem allowing a compromise. It's a complex issue that impacts everyone. The complexities of the threats, the varied/blended vectors and overall lack of security concerns by certain vendors, recklessness of our Intel organizations, are all collecting into a perfect storm. Windows is ill-prepared for the modern threat landscape and it's becoming woefully evident with each passing day. Windows is still an acceptable OS, I use it for gaming but let's not for a minute think it's secure and safe in any form by educating a user on what not to run and installing a basic AV. That's delusional speak. These aren't the old days bro where you can install Spybot Tea Timer and be a hero. ChromeOS perfect? No. Secure? Very. The worst you are going to get on it is an Android App that causes annoyance or a bad extension in chrome. Nothing Ctrl + Shift + Alt + R won't fix in 20-25 seconds (Powerwash). There is a reason the EDU market is now 60% ChromeOS and will likely be virtually the entire EDU market in 5 years or less. Do yourself a favor - if Aunt Sue needs a laptop toss her a Chromebook and show her how to use it. [/QUOTE]

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