BeyondTrust’s findings show that among the 2008 Microsoft vulnerabilities given a "critical" severity rating, 92 percent shared the same best practice advice from Microsoft to mitigate the vulnerability: "Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights." This language, found in the "Mitigating Factors" portion of Microsoft’s security bulletins, also appears as a recommendation for reducing the threat from nearly 70 percent of all vulnerabilities reported in 2008.
Other key findings from BeyondTrust’s report show that removing administrator rights will better protect companies against the exploitation of:
* 94 percent of Microsoft Office vulnerabilities reported in 2008
* 89 percent of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities reported in 2008
* 53 percent of Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities reported in 2008.
I'd like to take this a step further. Let's compare a system operated by a user with no administrator rights -- but no antivirus -- against a system operated by an administrator *with* antivirus. I believe the no administrator rights system would survive more often, albeit not without some failures. Anyone know of a study like that?
Richard Bejtlich is teaching new classes in DC and Europe in 2009. Register by 1 Jan and 1 Feb, respectively, for the best rates.
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