[Info-vax] The new world that VMS will be living in

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/7/2020 8:25 PM, Mark Berryman wrote:
>                                          For me, the real issue is the 
> number of instances (that have been reported) of the major cloud vendors 
> saying "oops, we accidentally leaked this customer's data".  AWS is the 
> vendor I've seen this happen to the most.

It has happened and it has gotten some press.

An example is the Capital One AWS leak in 2019.

But if you look at what was the problem then it was two
specific problems:
* a mis-configured web application firewall
* the web application firewall having too many permissions

That is bad.

But it is not really cloud specific.

If someone put a VMS system in the cloud (when VMS x86-64 is
ready), allows telnet/ssh from anywhere and make the
SYSTEM password SYSTEM, then it will get hacked. But I will
not blame cloud for that.

Arne