http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/14/29FE-mac-security_1.html



By Glenn Fleishman

InfoWorld

July 14, 2008 



Macs are immune from security threats, right? It's Windows we have to 

worry about. That water-cooler wisdom needs to be flipped on its head, 

security experts and IT managers warn. Microsoft has gotten its security 

act together with Vista and its current security-response program; 

meanwhile, Apple is fast becoming the company most in need of getting 

its security mojo going.



Many IT and security managers who have focused on securing Windows need 

to turn their attention to the Mac OS, as these six Mac security flaws 

attest. And with Macs increasingly making their way into the enterprise, 

they shouldn't wait: According to a recent Yankee Group study, 80 

percent of senior managers at 700 companies had Macs in house, with 21 

percent boasting 50 or more Macs in use.



A few security holes in Mac OS X are already known, such as the 

unpatched ARDAgent vulnerability. But that's not where the principal Mac 

security threat lies. From interviews with security experts and 

corporate IT managers, it's clear that security concerns and potential 

risks are much more quotidian -- exactly the kind of bread-and-butter 

stuff that is easy to ignore, especially for Macs, where IT's 

familiarity with the Mac is slight because users have typically managed 

the computers themselves.



It's time for IT to figure out where the Mac's security holes are so 

that you can plug them before your corporate knowledge starts bubbling 

out. Here are the six main flaws you should focus on.



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