6 security flaws prove IT needs to secure Macs

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Jul 14, 20081 min

The time has come for IT managers typically focusing their energy on making Windows PCs secure to turn toward Macs — as these 6 security flaws prove. Some are already known, but that is not where the real threat resides, Glenn Fleishmann explains.

“It’s clear that security concerns and potential risks are much more quotidian — exactly the kind of bread-and-butter stuff that is easy to ignore, especially for Macs, where IT’s familiarity with the Mac is slight because users have typically managed the computers themselves,” Fleishmann writes.

Here are the six main flaws IT should focus on.