quote: IT managers don't trust MS: surveyJames RileyApril 01, 2003NEARLY three-quarters of enterprise-level IT security chiefs don't trust Microsoft security, according to new research from Forrester.Yet the same survey found that nine out of ten of these users have deployed sensitive applications on Windows, regardless.The Forrester "Can Microsoft be secure?" paper surveyed 35 IT security specialists in the US from companies with $US1 billion or more in annual revenues.Some 77 per cent of those surveyed cited security as their top concern when deploying Windows applications.Yet Forrester maintains Microsoft has suffered unfair criticism of its security efforts, claiming the company's track record is "both better and more complicated than conventional wisdom suggests".Forrester suggests that although there are improvements Microsoft could make to security practices, the blame for incidents often rests with the users themselves.The report points to major worm and virus attacks, and says Microsoft generally issued patches well before outbreaks. The company issued a patch for the Nimda vulnerability nearly a year before that worm's release, and issues a patch for SQL Slammer more than six months before it brought down a major bank
