Once the Mac Trojan Flashback was struck this spring, Apple drew attention to the safety and security of Mac from viruses, results of which manifest themselves already in the OS X Mountain Lion. Based on the information to developers in the Mountain Lion DP4 work
"A new system update for security reasons", which uses a secure connection to work with servers and Apple knows how to install all the updates OS X automatically in the background.
Will the new system of protection in OS X Mountain Lion success for schools and businesses, or all of a sudden fail? This is what we learn after the official release of the new operating system version for the Mac, but now is the time to analyze the bones details of the security system.
According to the notes, DP4, Apple has made security updates automatic, and they will be perceived by users, not as a task that will need to be sure to do this manually, but as a simple background process. Apparently, the defense will be updated even when the Mac user is not logged in, which is very reminiscent of a similar security system in Windows.
Not the fact that the new Mac security will be popular among business and education. Besides, Apple does not hurt to pay attention to a number of problems, including:
A narrow channel updates - If all Macs will check and pump up security updates at the same time, it can create stress on the channels of up to lost connections on some computers.
Testing update - not often that the updates from Apple violate any sphere of Mac, but sometimes it still happens. Yes, Apple offers individual companies to test updates to its software to access the free access. But if the process to update the protection system will be automated, many Mac get raw update, which is not good.
Office upgrades - Not only should ensure that the updates are tested and the results sent to Apple, managers need to specify what kind of security update Mac in question. And they will go, apparently, a lot. Fully automated process will save the situation; you only need to implement an intelligent synchronous update for all Mac.
Reboot after the update - it is also very important detail. How many of you know, the Windows update, which is expected to spend 1-2 minutes, may take a couple hours or even longer. And then the computer goes to reboot. Homes such annoying things as well in the business consequences may be expressed in reduced productivity and loss of finances. It is important that Apple has not allowed this.
All these problems are common to all operating systems, which are regularly downloaded some updates and things like that. Surely now confronted with such issues, and Apple.
In fact, to solve these "problems" can be one click, turning off automatic updates protect Mac. So make sure in American schools, which use software such as Apple Remote Control and Net install or JAMF and Star Deploy.
But we will not bore you with more complicated names that many of you know anything do not say, but only add that if you disable the automatic downloading of updates, then three days later after the next update of the system will be updated automatically. Apple will not abandon you, do not expect!
In fact, it's hard to believe that Apple did not remove all these defects and "indent" in the center of security updates OS X. Much more interesting is the extent to which will be implemented by management and control of the security system from Apple...
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