First, I happened to see an article on LinkedIn quoting Krebs on
Security. The Capital One hack of 106 million pieces of personal
information seems to have been on AWS? And an Engineer from AWS was the
hacker? The data was "improperly secured". Why would companies put
personal data somewhere that other people really do have access, and it
is really not as secure as you hope. And the Starwood hack, I was on
some bulletin board and the Starwood engineers were so proud they got
off the mainframe (just to make world news on getting hacked badly).
Aren't they proud now (and now their data is back on a mainframe oh darn)
I'm thinking that if this data was secure in an IBM Secure Container,
this would not have happened. (Or probably on any reasonably secure
mainframe). So I'm starting to understand more the need for all the
encryption and security that IBM Z is providing.
If you are considering the IBM Secure Container architecture, Velocity
Software has worked with the IBM team in coming up with a solution for
managing performance. I saw many presentations on the subject, and
asked to blank stares why would customers utilize a black box for
anything - if there is a problem, it can not be diagnosed. Great idea,
but did not include any mechanism for managing performance or diagnosing
problems.... A solution for managing IBM Secure container can be found
at http://velocitysoftware.com/collectd.html
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