So it's just considered security features and security bugs of operating systems.
But what affects the likelihood of there being threats to your operating system the most thus increasing
your risk based on your operating system.
Well that's the usage share of the operating system i.e. how popular is the operating system that you
are using.
So let's have a look at the statistics when it comes to usage share.
Here we are looking at data from a site or a company called stat counter and look at this huge market
share from Microsoft Windows operating system.
81 percent of the total desktop operating system market is Windows followed by Mac OS at a relatively
tiny 13 percent which actually is up from 8 percent in 2015.
So it's up 5 percent since 2015.
So Mac OSS is becoming more popular and taking over a little bit of the Windows market.
Then look at Linux and chromis tiny tiny percentage of actual usage of the Windows operating systems
we can see a further break down Windows 10 has the majority share around 46 percent which is not too
much of a surprise.
But no Windows 7 is at a staggering 40 percent which is why I still cover the cost because so many people
don't want to move to Windows 10 even though it was offered to them for free as a free upgrade from
Windows 7.
And amazingly people are still using XP.
Can you believe it.
I'm not surprised.
Worth noting.
Desktops and laptops are no longer the most used form of computer.
Smartphones are at 51 percent usage.
Desktops are up 44 percent usage.
We will talk about smartphone statistics in a minute.
Cyber criminals like any budding entrepreneur wants to get the best return on investment in time and
effort.
It makes much more sense to target the largest demographic of users which is Windows generally.
Malware is written for a single type of operating system.
So because Windows still has the greatest market share that's where they're going to aim.
That's where the money is.
Book Mac users need to be aware the walls are circling with increased popularity and increased number
and severity when reality is criminals will start to focus on math.
If we moved down here you can see another way of viewing the U.S. statistics and now including the mobiles.
And look you can see Android is becoming extremely popular and mirroring its popularity is a massive
increase in attacks against Android.
If you buy an Android device you need to buy it from Google or a major manufacturer who provides timely
updates to security books.
There are currently millions of vulnerable Android phones out there that will never be patched because
nobody's providing the patches for them.
A vulnerability called stagefright means that a picture message can be sent to those phones to take
control.
And there's millions of Matlab hon.
So what does this tell us all about the operating system that we should pick.
Well Linux offers the most secure operating system plus it has a tiny usage share which means the real
risk the threat landscape for Linux is tiny.
On the downside it's difficult to get applications for it and don't support all the applications that
you're going to need.
So it's a it's a tradeoff there but you will get the most security from a Linux type environment.
Not many people are attacking Linux.
Then you have your Mac OS X which has got a nice balance it's not a well targeted operating system and
it has reasonable security features.
I would say Mac is probably a good balance for your average user that cares about security and also
cares about usability.
But you do also increase cost which is unfortunate.
And then you have Windows.
It is the highest market share is attacked the most.
But this course is the solution to mitigate the risks.
So although you may be running with an operating system that is attacked the most there are solutions
to help you mitigate risk and this is what this course is going to do for you.
And with some simple and easy steps you'll be able to reduce your risk massively so that they don't
go after you.
They go after the low hanging fruit.