> My employer's VPN disabled all other network connections (is this typical?)
Yes. Sometimes it is a checkbox in the client configuration that the user can change if sufficiently cognizant. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Am I missing something when doing XMIT with an encrypted data set? On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:49:34 +0000, Mike Wawiorko wrote: >Secure NJE with AT-TLS? > >But you do have a point that XMIT might somehow check that to make it >all-pervasive encryption. > Pervasive encryption is pervasively too transparent. Do similar concerns apply to FTP, IND$FILE, VPN, VNC, IEBGENER to an unencrypted data set, ... The assumption is that a trusted person via a secure connection does no harm. My employer's VPN disabled all other network connections (is this typical?) An irritant to employees who had to disconnect VPN to use their home network printers. But I could VPN from a Linux guest while the host remained connected to the Internet. Portable storage devices? Photographs of terminal screens? Body cavity searches at the security perimeter? A pair of co-workers swapped music CDs. One was stopped carrying out a cardboard box of CDs. The rule was that boxes were searched; bags were exempt. Someone suggested putting the box in a paper bag. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
