Just in...
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3185530/government-it/trump-s-son-in-law-jared-kushner-prepares-for-cobol-cloud-mainframes.html
"Common sense is not so common."
* Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764)
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]>
wrote:
> [email protected] (scott Ford) writes:
> > Bravo Phil and Tim from IBM. In my experience with NYC Stock Exchange
> > and too many Brokerage houses to count, all of these installations had
> > very tight internal/ external security. Including multiple firewalls
> > to enter the MF domains. Once in the MF domain, the security subsystem
> > was tightly controlled.
>
> as part of our IBM HA/CMP product
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-hacmpcheatsheet/
>
> ... we had meetings with SIAC at their offices in wtc
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_Industry_Automation_Corporation
>
> The Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) is a subsidiary of
> the NYSE Euronext. Its purpose is to provide technical services for the
> exchanges themselves, members and other financial institutions. In this
> role, SIAC provides the computers and other systems required to run the
> exchanges. It also owns communication lines and hardware to provide
> real-time quotes and transaction information to all market participants
> from the Consolidated Tape/Ticker System (CTS), Consolidated Quotation
> System (CQS), and Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA).
>
> ... snip ...
>
> this was before
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
>
> note HA/CMP effort included handling attacks, not just failure modes.
>
> It was in this period that I also coined the term disaster servivability
> and geographic servivability. I was also asked to write section for the
> corporate stratetegic continuous availability document. However, the
> section got pulled because both the rochester people (as/400) and pok
> people (mainframe) said they could meet the requirements. some past
> posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
>
> posts in this thread:
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#60 [EXTERNAL] ComputerWorld Says:
> Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#61 [EXTERNAL] ComputerWorld Says:
> Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#67 Cobol plays major role in U.S.
> government breaches
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#69 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays
> major role in U.S. government breaches
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#70 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays
> major role in U.S. government breaches
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#71 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays
> major role in U.S. government breaches
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#75 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays
> major role in U.S. government breaches
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#76 Cobol plays major role in U.S.
> government breaches
>
> after leaving IBM, one of the first things was being brought in as
> consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payment
> trasnactions on their server, the startup at also invented this
> technology called "SSL" they wanted to use, it is now frequently called
> "electronic commerce". I had complete authority over the webserver to
> payment networks ... which included huge amount of firewalls and HA
> redundancy (including geographic survivability). However, I could only
> make recommendations on the client/server side ... some of which were
> almost immediately violated, that continue to account for some number of
> exploits.
>
> later at financial industry infrastructure protection meetings,
> securities industry participation were some of the most difficult
> https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/pdd-63.htm
>
> securities industry was amoung the most insistant on the FS/ISAC not be
> government operation and therefor subject to FOIA ... concern that
> public might become aware of some of the things that go on.
> https://www.fsisac.com/
>
> --
> virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
>
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