> On Mar 20, 2017, at 8:12 AM, John Crossno <[email protected]> wrote: > > If one reads the article, then digs into the underlying research, and > finally the Congressional report on the OPM incidents (all 250 pages of > it), it's quite easy to see that the authors of the research and subsequent > article are implying that legacy=mainframe/COBOL, while the real problem(s) > really had nothing to do with either, at the end of the day. It had > everything to do with "legacy" network security, not following best > security practices, etc. Where the research talks about investments in > modernization, they imply that the problem is "archaic" 30-year old COBOL > systems, when that really isn't supported by the research at all > (contradictions?). They really mean that when the distributed network > security is modernized with security best practices, advanced intrusion and > malware detection, use of MFA/PIV/etc, there's a reduction in the number of > incidents. ———————————————SNIP———————————————————
This goes along side of Computerworld disliking the mainframe. This started happening in the mid 1990’s. I got the idea that a lot of Gartner people wound up there. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
