Top 5 OS: Security-wise

With increasing number of hackers, operating systems(OS) are intruded every now and then stealing away your private data. To be precise, any networked OS can be intruded how secure it may be. We use a variety of OS's today. Here is a list of the top ten most secure OS's in the world which are even today trusted for a lot of personalized security features.

1.     OpenBSD:  It is the most fundamental operating system used by penetration testers mostly. The proof of its security lies in the fact that this OS has been exploited for 2 times only in the last decade. Recently OpenBSD was seen quoting on their website

                       "Five years without a remote hole in the default install!"

2.           Linux: It is my most favorite operating system. Linux can be customized by each user altering some codes according to their own needs, well security can also be increased by customizing. Moreover Linux has an impressive vulnerability patching mechanism.

3.      Windows Server 2008: This version of Windows Server has improved web server roles, backup and recovery options, user account controls, and server security configurations than its previous release, Windows Server 2000. Windows Server 2000 was also very most secure as it provided regular patches to protest machines from worms and hackers even a decade after its release.

4.       Windows 7: This operating system is the updated transformation of Windows Vista, the latest release of Microsoft Windows. It has added new features like BitLocker Drive Encryption, improved firewall settings and parental control and also customizable security settings.

5.      Windows Vista: All the blunders windows did in its previous releases like windows 98, windows xp etc. were fixed in this operating system but they eventually lost a good amount of potential buyers due to complicated security policies and compatibility issues with the older versions- but they were designed so to to make Vista a lot more protected from hackers.

Other Close competitors were Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, HP-UX 11i and Solaris

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