[Info-vax] Special deals on Tape Drives

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-03-05, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
> Hallelujah
> And what about security?
> When you are on the cloud, you are almost certainly running OpenVMS on 
> an emulator
> And in most cases that emulator is running on Windows (M$)

Mostly Linux, not Windows. And Linux is currently _way_ more secure
than VMS is.

VMS needs some serious work to bring it up to current security standards.

For starters, Linux has ASLR, sandboxing, and mandatory access controls.
VMS has nothing like that.

Linux is also an environment where it is actively probed for security
issues so those issues get fixed and Linux becomes more robust as
a result.

You can also help yourselves by getting rid of unencrypted obsolete
protocols on your network and replacing them exclusively with encrypted
modern protocols.

There's quite the attitude in the VMS world that just because something
was acceptable 20 years ago, then it's automatically somehow acceptable
today.

In the security world, you never know when the next security issue
to be found and reported on is just around the corner.

Simon.

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