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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

In the enterprise space, Windows isn’t an issue at all.

This is because enterprise manages security properly - layered, minimum perms to perform a task, etc.

Windows laptops have been tightly locked down since the early 2000’s, including USB ports.

I’ve never seen a virus or malware on machine in enterprise, and if it were to occur, the most it can damage is the local machine, as network shares are minimal (most data is kept in databases), the shares with write access are limited to small user groups, etc.

Users simply lack permissions to change stuff, so malware lacks it too.

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Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is because enterprise manages security properly - layered, minimum perms to perform a task, etc.

Apparently Microsoft itself isn’t Enterprise?

I’ve never seen a virus or malware on a machine in enterprise…

Change Healthcare - www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/…/ar-BB1kvg2t

MGM Grand - www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/business/…/index.html

HP Enterprise - apnews.com/…/russian-hackers-hewlett-packard-ente…

Here’s 12 more - www.kaspersky.com/blog/…/50634/

Users simply lack permissions to change stuff, so malware lacks it too.

Oh something is lacking in your world and I’m not talking about permissions.

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Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Have you been near some sort of news in the last years? Corporations using windows get hacked regularly and they are far off from having everything in a database somewhere. You have no fucking clue. What you are describing is the dream of corporate security newbies, but no big corporation let alone some state government is anywhere close to that.

They have massive shares, where all the people can read and overwrite everything, they open all attachments directly on their machine and click away all warnings without reading them. (Who needs USB if you can mail malware directly?)

This is hell and in Germany dozens of smaller or bigger government networks were hacked and massive amounts of data encrypted last year alone.

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- naticus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I can from personal experience that there is a huge push to get much more secure in the local government space in the US, including adhering to NIST 800-53, and be audited on it. It’s not foolproof, but it’s a much needed step forward towards preventing big events becoming breaches. But if they are a breach they’ll be lower impact. It’s painful to get there, but I’ve been involved heavily in the conversion in policies and procedures to get there.
  
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