[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <00659a5f$0$10051$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
> 	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>> We wre talking about systems in corporate situations run by supposed
>>> professionals, not "your momma's PC", remember.  If they don't know
>>> how to set up a secure system and don't know where to find the info
>>> they belong on the breadline and not in the corporate datacenter.
<snip>
>> It is relatively easy for a geek to secure his windows desktop. Not so
>> easy for a large corporate network with thousands of workstations to
>> roll out a new patch across its network.
> 
> It is much easier than you think. If the boxes are set up properly and,
> in a corporate network, that is not as hard as some would have you think,
> most of these threats become a much lower precedence for concern.  	
> would suggest that anyone doingt his for a living needs to do a lot
> more of that professional development and self-study that is what
> sepatrates us from the geeks.  Start with learning about something called
> "Defense in Depth".

"Secure PCs" can be produced and reproduced quite easily.

  You set up one box correctly and then clone it.  There is a way to 
alter the ID of the machine so that the clones have unique IP addresses!
ISTR that we had a "Standard Load" for PC's and a box that cloned disks.