Posts Tagged ‘infosec mac’

What’s with all the glowing Apples?

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

When I began attending security conferences several years ago, PowerBooks were a rare sight. In the years since the release of OS X, however, it’s not unusual to find more MacBooks than Windows systems in rooms populated by security professionals.

MacBooks are certainly not more widespread in enterprise environments than Windows systems; BusinessWeek places Apple’s corporate laptop market share at 20%. So why the bigger market share upon InfoSec professionals?

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