“The National Security Agency – the U.S. government’s cryptologic organization, has given Mac OS X 10.4 a glowing endorsement for security,” Charles W. Moore writes for Applelinks.
Moore writes, “The NSA is a bleeding-edge high-tech spy outfit, so their endorsement of an operating system’s security carries a lot of weight. In the introduction to its ‘Mac OS X Security Configuration For Version 10.4 or Later, Second Edition,’ the NSA says:
As part of a change in our development strategy for security guidance, the National Security Agency does not intend to publish separate security guides for the Macintosh OS X operating system beyond that which was produced by the vendor, beginning with Tiger, OS X version 10.4.x. The recommendations in Apple’s “Mac OS X Security Configuration For Version 10.4 or Later” and “Mac OS X Server Security Configuration For Version 10.4 or Later” track closely with the security level historically represented in the NSA guidelines. It is our belief that these guides establish the latest best practices for securing the products and recommend that traditional customers of our security recommendations use the Apple guides when securing Macintosh OS X 10.4.x and Macintosh OS X Server 10.4.x.
Full article, with links to the NSA documents, here.
ZDNet’s Larry Dignan also extensively covers the story in his blog here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Another Irish Dude" for the heads up.]
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