On 20/07/2024 9:31 am, Steve Beaver wrote:
We never had these problems until Windows showed up
You can't really blame Windows in this case.
If you had a linklisted, APF authorized product that hooked into system
functions and was remotely updateable by the vendor without a system
restart, they could equally bring down all z/OS systems simultaneously.
That's effectively the situation here.
If your auditor or CTO insisted you had to run Crowdstrike on the
mainframe, could you say no?
The biggest problem is the sheer number of systems affected. But
recovering mainframe systems could also be a challenge, if all your
systems are down. Time to launch your DR systems perhaps - but what if
the offending product is part of the real time data mirrored to the DR
site? And every customer is ringing the DR providor and declaring disaster?
--
Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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