You may be thinking, that I’ve got the title of this story all wrong, but according to a study carried out by BeyondTrust I’m right. It turns out that if you take away the administrative rights from Windows 7 it will reduce the number of critical vulnerabilities by as much as 90%. What’s more, its said to remove 100% of vulnerabilities reported last year in Microsoft Office.
It will also reduce the risk of 94% of vulnerabilities found in all versions of Internet Explorer in 2009 and 100% of the vulnerabilities discovered in Internet Explorer 8 during the same year. There’s more as well, apparently it could reduce the vulnerability of all other Microsoft products by as much as 64% .
These findings come from a study conducted by BeyondTrust, which suspiciously sells software that restricts administrative privileges. Hmm does this remind you of the study carried out a while ago about Windows 7 using more memory, this report came from a company that sells memory optimization software and it turned out all to be a big farce. I’m not saying this one is too, I’m just pointing that out.
BeyondTrust EVP of corporate development Steve Kelley argued in a statement
“Enterprises continue to face imminent danger from zero-day attacks as new vulnerabilities are exploited before patches can ever be developed and deployed,”. “Our findings reflect the critical role that restricting administrator rights plays in protecting against these types of threats.”
Asked to comment on the conclusions of the report, Paul Cooke, director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, said the company had enabled the UAC feature to enable users to work without admin rights;
We believe that running users as standard users is good for Windows, the ecosystem, and all of our users,”"It is our hope that with the help of UAC that ISVs (independent software vendors) will continue to adapt their software to work well with standard user rights.”
I’ll let you guys make your own decision as to whether or not you think that Windows is more secure without the admin features or if you think this is just another company looking to get some business by coming out with false and/or exaggerated reports.
Let us know in the comments
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It will also reduce the risk of 94% of vulnerabilities found in all versions of Internet Explorer in 2009 and 100% of the vulnerabilities discovered in Internet Explorer 8 during the same year. There’s more as well, apparently it could reduce the vulnerability of all other Microsoft products by as much as 64% .
These findings come from a study conducted by BeyondTrust, which suspiciously sells software that restricts administrative privileges. Hmm does this remind you of the study carried out a while ago about Windows 7 using more memory, this report came from a company that sells memory optimization software and it turned out all to be a big farce. I’m not saying this one is too, I’m just pointing that out.
BeyondTrust EVP of corporate development Steve Kelley argued in a statement
“Enterprises continue to face imminent danger from zero-day attacks as new vulnerabilities are exploited before patches can ever be developed and deployed,”. “Our findings reflect the critical role that restricting administrator rights plays in protecting against these types of threats.”
Asked to comment on the conclusions of the report, Paul Cooke, director of Windows Client Product Management at Microsoft, said the company had enabled the UAC feature to enable users to work without admin rights;
We believe that running users as standard users is good for Windows, the ecosystem, and all of our users,”"It is our hope that with the help of UAC that ISVs (independent software vendors) will continue to adapt their software to work well with standard user rights.”
I’ll let you guys make your own decision as to whether or not you think that Windows is more secure without the admin features or if you think this is just another company looking to get some business by coming out with false and/or exaggerated reports.
Let us know in the comments
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