Based upon my own experience attempting to negotiate with vendors over whether it is "good" or "bad" that they use Key 8 CSA in their code, and if it was "bad", whether they would actually fix their code, this sledgehammer is ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED.
Thank you, Jim. Once again, you've made another huge improvement to the z/OS platform! Brian On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:48:18 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote: > I still wanted to move to a default of NO quickly, as the >slow progress in eliminating user key CSA convinced me that >the sledgehammer approach was required. Hopefully, having >to explain to security auditors why use of product X requires >overriding IBM's recommendation, default, and HealthChecker >will be a sufficiently large sledgehammer. > >Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
