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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by dissent on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:01AM (#41024134)
I go the other way, it's absolutely their fault. Their historical business model of monopolizing the enterprise while outsourcing security is at the root of all this. The same thing could happen with Crowdstrike on other platforms, but it's only on Windows where these suites are considered essential.
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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by gruez on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:23AM (#41025308)
>but it's only on Windows where these suites are considered essential.

They're "considered essential" for all corporate machines for compliance and CYA reasons. If you're the CISO/CTO and a hack occurred on your watch, do you really want to be the one telling the board that you didn't need EDR on your linux machines because linux is secure?

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Re:Microsoft's global sprawl under fire from regulators afte... by dissent on Sunday July 21, 2024 @01:51PM (#41026747)
It's a culture that has grown up around a dominant platform that had little or no security built in. Where I work, Windows is heavily locked down with all sorts of security junk on it, but iOS gets by with minimal MDM.
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