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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <dLKdndB9ef0mYOTUnZ2dnUVZ_tPinZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 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.

Yeah, that's one way to do it.  That's why people buy Ghost (which I have
used both here and in my other job quite a bit.)  But it is certainly not
the only way.  Of course, people here will tell you that there is no way
to make that first Secure PC Image.

bill

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