I was a DBA. Anyone who has valid access, no matter how they got it, doesn’t 
qualify as a hack of that platform. Nearly every bank in the world still uses 
the mainframe. Why? Because it is almost impenetrable by regular hacking means. 
So do most insurance companies for the same reason. 


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On Monday, May 6, 2019, 7:30 PM, Grant Taylor 
<[email protected]> wrote:

On 5/6/19 1:42 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
> Still never would have occurred without a valid userid.

Think about it this way:

Would a DBA be able to get away saying that "the DB was copied because a
mainframe operator reused their mainframe credentials as their
credentials to access the RDBMS."?  (Regardless of how the credentials
were actually acquired.)

My bet is that such a response would not hold any water and the DBA
would be expected to better secure the RDBMS.

I feel like the same methodology & standards apply to the mainframe as
it does to the RDBMS.



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Grant. . . .
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