________________________________ From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, January 23, 2010 8:33:36 AM Subject: Re: "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) -------------------SNIP------------------------------------------------------------------ there have been past stories about some companies nearly being taken down ... when it was discovered that backup process wasn't actually writing anything on the tapes.
there are some federal standards for overwritting as countermeasure to such recovery ---------------------SNIP------------------------------------------------ Here is a true story that everybody might enjoy. Place: Large Hospital Systems: MVS & VM One night there were two tape drives down so the backup for the VM (yes they backed it up from MVS with FDR). So the boss gets a telephone call telling him that there weren't enough tape drives to run this one backup job. So the boss tells the operator to delete some DD cards that point to the VM volumes and rerun. Fast forward 3 years and one day the VM drives had a hard error. So they went for the backups and there were none to be had. The VM system was down (hard as you might say). The boss had never told him the operator to save the JCL just to submit it (at least that how he told it). So we have 100+ VM users (who essentially used it for editing and JCL submission could no longer do their job. I had to quick come up with an ISPF class for the VM people and give it to all the people. IS really got a black eye on that fiasco (deservedly) but they did end up saving the bucks for VM :) Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
