A Time to Patch III: Apple
Posted by jericho
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/05/atimetopatchiiiapple2.html
A Time to Patch III: Apple
Over the past several months, Security Fix published data showing how long it took Microsoft and Mozilla to issue updates for security flaws. Today, I’d like to present some data I compiled that looks at Apple’s performance on this front.
Here’s what I found: Over the past two years, after being notified about serious security flaws in its products, it took Apple about 91 days on average to issue patches to correct those vulnerabilities. I also found that almost without exception, open-source Linux vendors were months ahead of Apple in fixing the same flaws.
You can download a copy of the charts I put together either in HTML format or as a Microsoft Excel file. I spent a long time on this research, but that doesn’t mean it is free of typos and so forth. If you spot one, or a discrepancy in the data, please drop me line and I will update the data as necessary.
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