Re: Power7 firmware update

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HA! Good point though.

See I am a systems guy. If you can hack into the control bits for my 
systems that is bad. That means you can take down my entire 
infrastructure, cold. Also if I have to update this stuff to prevent 
issues like heartbleed, it potentially takes down everything on the 
server, not just Payroll!  Isolation lets me decide when to update 
because other prevention is in place.

As for Payroll yeah that's important and I'll work to assure that only 
the appropriate folks can reach the machine that contains it, and only 
in the prescribed ways. I'll also work to be sure that only the correct 
methods are used on the machine to access it but much of security is up 
to the vendors and the developers. And that's scary.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
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On 7/7/2014 7:38 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Wow, so do you also keep all your real data (ERP, Payroll, medical
> records, etc) completely private accessible only via the HMC and nothing
> else or is that data expendable as compared to firmware?
>
>
> Rob Berendt