[Full-Disclosure] Vulnerability response times -- MS and others

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Now... what about the following? I cannot read the Forrester report --
I am not a client, and I do not wish to spend $899 on it... so I
cannot discuss the metrics used, nor how Forrester determined what was
a "vulnerability disclosure".

Given the fact that a lot of the MS security fixes were privately
disclosed to MS (and public announcement was withheld until MS put out
a fix), this *may* have played a role.

Anyways... the report seems to indicate that Microsoft is the fastest
on solving security issues.

Comments?

 --Comparing Windows and Linux Security
(30 March 2004)
Forrester Research has released a report titled "Is Linux More Secure
Than Windows?"  The report, which looked at Debian, Mandrake, Windows,
Red Hat and SuSE, focused on these questions:  How quickly does each
fix public security vulnerabilities? How severe are the problems that
arise? And how close does each company come to fixing 100% of its flaws?
The metrics used were the number of days between flaw disclosure and
release of fix and NIST's ICAT project standard for severe computer
vulnerabilities.  During the yearlong period studied, Microsoft had the
shortest lag time between disclosure and patch release, but the highest
number of high severity flaws (67%) in the time period examined.  56%
of Red Hat flaws were ranked high severity, but Red Hat fixed all but
one, or 99.6%, of its vulnerabilities.
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,1761,a=123143,00.asp
ICAT: http://icat.nist.gov/icat.cfm
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