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2022-06-18 Cyber

Security Experts: Microsoft Is Doing a Lousy Job of Protecting Customers

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-18 08:48|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Microsoft ~~Is Doing~~has always done a Lousy Job of Protecting Customers

Yeah. That's more like it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-18 12:56|| 2022-06-18 12:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Glancing at Microsoft's Azure Synapse web page, it appears to be a database in the cloud.

Having worked with both Microsoft and Oracle, I'd recommend Oracle over Microsoft.

And from what I can gather about this "cloud" thingy, it's customers accessing Microsoft's disk storage over the internet. So, IOW, you put your database on Microsoft's disks and access it over the internet.

I count at least two major vulnerabilities there: 1) the disks are owned and operated by Microsoft, 'nuff said, and 2) your data is flapping out on the internet like underwear drying on a clothes line. You never want your mission critical database directly exposed to the internet especially if you're relying on Microsoft to keep it secure.

I recently installed a one terabyte solid state hard drive on my computer. It was about the size of a baseball card. That's an obscene amount of storage. When I used to work for a mid-sized company we could have put four instances of our Oracle database on this one little disk without any need for striping over multiple old style spinning disks. Why then, would we ever need a cloud?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-18 13:35|| 2022-06-18 13:35|| Front Page Top

#3 I've found the Linux Mint OS to be very secure. And free.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-06-18 14:29|| 2022-06-18 14:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Most people today don't know any better so they spend their hard earned money on Windows or Mac. But Linux is a viable alternative and it's what they call Open Source so it doesn't cost anything. You don't necessarily have to be a nerd to use it either although, if your are a nerd, Linux is a helluva lot more fun. I never looked back after I put Linux on my computer.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-18 15:04|| 2022-06-18 15:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Why would they care?

Posted by Glenmore 2022-06-18 17:01|| 2022-06-18 17:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Linux, yeah, baby!

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-18 21:40|| 2022-06-18 21:40|| Front Page Top

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