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May 9, 2012

What Microsoft Can Teach Apple About Security

Ed Bott, ZDNet


AP

Security vulnerabilities are a fact of life. Even the best-managed development processes will miss some attack vectors, leaving the software makers responsible for fixing the underlying vulnerabilities.

Speed of response is important. But equally important is how a software vendor communicates with its customers about those vulnerabilities.

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TAGGED: privacy concerns, security systems, Apple, Microsoft

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