Tony Harminc wrote: >Yes, storage administrators are a small population, but their >credentials can be compromised as much as anyone else's, and then >you're not dealing with rogue storage admins but with criminal (or >goverment or whatever) actors. And storage admins (or their >credentials) may well make a better target than those of application >users because the admins have much broader access to data.
More Swiss cheese. Yes, there's benefit. It's relatively small compared to things like format-preserving data protection, however, which let the data be in its protected state by default, with only the few use cases that absolutely require cleartext access having those permissions. It's all about outrunning the bear! ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
