This sounds more like a policy decision. Any serious company is heavily limiting how customer data is accessed. Lots of them have special rooms, with heavy physical security, where you cannot even bring electronic watch, not even talking about your work phone or normal work laptop. And those companies often run on Linux.
Open source doesn’t make stuff magically secure. Remember heartbleed? Or how easy it’s was proven (by sketchy research, sure, but that’s secondary point) to bring malicious code into THE open source project, Linux kernel?
Believing that by simply using open source you have secure infra, and that by using Windows is naive view by people who never seriously worked on security for big companies.
I say all of that as a heavy Linux supporter. Linux is better, yes. But it’s not a magic bullet. I’ve worked in Windows shops that had extremely good security, and Linux shops that could’ve been hacked by someone after one day classes of how to be a hacker.
Open source doesn’t make stuff magically secure. Remember heartbleed? Or how easy it’s was proven (by sketchy research, sure, but that’s secondary point) to bring malicious code into THE open source project, Linux kernel?
Believing that by simply using open source you have secure infra, and that by using Windows is naive view by people who never seriously worked on security for big companies.
I say all of that as a heavy Linux supporter. Linux is better, yes. But it’s not a magic bullet. I’ve worked in Windows shops that had extremely good security, and Linux shops that could’ve been hacked by someone after one day classes of how to be a hacker.