As the saying goes, a Unix server goes down and you have a bad weekend. A Mainframe goes down and the earth stops rotating on its axis. To the latter point, MQ Series and other messaging systems that communicate with Mainframes and heritage(*) systems get next to no attention from the security community, however they are critical. Here is a chat with T. Rob Wyatt on that subject
http://1raindrop.typepad.com/1_raindrop/2015/10/security-140-chat-with-t-rob-wyatt-on-mq-and-middleware-security.html -gunnar http://1raindrop.typepad.com @oneraindrop * Heritage is what most people call legacy, but legacy is pejorative and heritage more accurately reflects the role of the systems that basically runs many businesses _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates _______________________________________________
