U.S. Army Acquires More Macs To Enhance Cybersecurity
According to Forbes, the Army has quietly begun to integrate Macs into its systems. While Macs currently only make up around 20,000 of the Army's 700,000 computers, Macs are currently entering the Army at a rate of approximately 2,000 per year.
The previous barriers to Apples entering the Army have recently been overcome by Common Access Card (CAC) software development efforts by a Texas developer (CAC's are used extensively by the military) and security concerns outweighing cost concerns.
"A leaked deployment order, for instance, might reveal the path of a supply truck and the points where it could be sabotaged [...] This is information that affects the lives of soldiers and the civilians we're trying protect [...] It has to be safeguarded."
Every now and then questions rise about the security of Mac OS X. Earlier this year was the Month of Apple Bugs, and just this week was an article claiming that Mac OS X had 5 times more flaws than Windows over the past year. However, developments like this seem to indicate that Apple's security reputation remains positive amongst IT professionals.
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(View all)More Mac users is always good. :D
I hope that they can develop something for us.
I wonder what Macs they are using. I would expect Mac Pro's with like 3.0GHz Quad Core??
More then likely XServes.Ohhh, you are probably right. I forgot all about the Xservers.
You don't when you have a few and a personal copy of Leopard Server. ;)You don't when you have a few and a personal copy of Leopard Server. ;)
Damn your lucky.
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