The two largest cloud providers, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure (cough) are almost completely linux. Second, the world started the move towards cloud based infrastructure with virtualized servers. The Windows Defender product is a powerhouse unto itself! Windows machines are not by default as easy a terget as they used to be. Up until recently, Microsoft took a back seat to Endpoint Protection vendors like Symantec, McAfee, Trend, Kaspersky, etc.

If you were putting something like ClamAV on your Linux box, it was simply due diligence to protect Windows File Shares on the Samba service.īut over the past 5-6 years, a couple things have happened.įirst, Microsoft woke up and started adopting security practices right into their Operating Systems and Applications. There was nothing of interest or value kept on a Linux box. well forgive me Microsoft, but they were easy targets. The general consensus was that the majority of endpoint out there were some variant of a Windows Device and.

Once upon a time, it was accepted practice to run a Linux machine (or a Mac for that matter!) without Endpoint Protection

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