Hal Merritt wrote:
Ya just gotta love the media agendas. I scanned the report and saw some audit 'boiler plate' (yawn) but most all of the real 'problems' were network and Windows related (shock and awe). I did not see any unresolved mainframe issues. True, I did not see the detailed findings, but I'd bet a nickel that I've seen every one of the mainframe findings before on my own audits.
I worked at the headquarters building, as a contractor, in the late nineties. While we didn't actively probe for loopholes, we didn't notice any obvious problems other than human factors - one colleague kept using passwords like AAA111, etc., and putting them on a Post-It at his terminal. When admonished, he promised to stop, and put the Post-It into the desk drawer, instead. He only lasted a couple of weeks.
Really sad that the authors felt that it was more important to bash mainframes than report facts.
What's important to them is whether their boss knows better. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
