[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[seasoned_geek]

On Friday, June 4, 2021 at 12:58:51 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
> One thing that should work to some extent, is to have a private 
> communications protocol, and don't run TCP/IP on internal systems. That 
> probably won't work on many systems, since the capability of designing 
> and implementing such is beyond most shops. 
> 
> Like it or not, security by obscurity is the only thing that will work. 
> If the bad guys don't know how to talk to your system, and you don't 
> have any known comm protocol, they will have a much harder time.

A full air gap will work. Too many dufuses want to "manage everything from one terminal" and it is the same computer they want to check Facebook from.

I actually talk a lot about this topic in my latest book.

https://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/agile_book.html

*nix did it wrong.