Forums
New posts
Search forums
News
Security News
Technology News
Giveaways
Giveaways, Promotions and Contests
Discounts & Deals
Reviews
Users Reviews
Video Reviews
Support
Windows Malware Removal Help & Support
Mac Malware Removal Help & Support
Mobile Malware Removal Help & Support
Blog
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search titles only
By:
Search titles only
By:
Reply to thread
Menu
Install the app
Install
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Forums
Security
General Security Discussions
What is more secure, desktop Linux or Windows?
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Stenographers" data-source="post: 1044894" data-attributes="member: 97396"><p>A topic of much heated discussion. Which one is more secure? Lets frame this in some context to help answer the question. For this example, take a Fedora Linux desktop with SELinux configured and ClamAV installed. And lets compare this to a Windows desktop with the optional security features like ASR rules and controlled folder access enabled. This would be in an enterprise environment.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, some people say that open source development is more secure because anyone can review the source code for security holes. Others argue that open source is less secure because bad actors can look at the source code for vulnerabilities. Research has shown that security holes, once discovered, are patched in about the same amount of time for both closed source and open source software. </p><p></p><p>Windows has virtualization based security and sandboxing for user space applications. Fedora has Flatpaks which are sandboxed applications you can control the permissions of. </p><p></p><p>So, which one is more secure in this example? Does Linux have an edge over Windows when it comes to security? (Ignoring things like Qubes OS, which is by design much more secure than any other OS.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stenographers, post: 1044894, member: 97396"] A topic of much heated discussion. Which one is more secure? Lets frame this in some context to help answer the question. For this example, take a Fedora Linux desktop with SELinux configured and ClamAV installed. And lets compare this to a Windows desktop with the optional security features like ASR rules and controlled folder access enabled. This would be in an enterprise environment. Additionally, some people say that open source development is more secure because anyone can review the source code for security holes. Others argue that open source is less secure because bad actors can look at the source code for vulnerabilities. Research has shown that security holes, once discovered, are patched in about the same amount of time for both closed source and open source software. Windows has virtualization based security and sandboxing for user space applications. Fedora has Flatpaks which are sandboxed applications you can control the permissions of. So, which one is more secure in this example? Does Linux have an edge over Windows when it comes to security? (Ignoring things like Qubes OS, which is by design much more secure than any other OS.) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Top