[3992] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: OS/390 and WWW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arjan Vos)
Wed Jan 15 20:32:19 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:45:21 +0100 (MET)
From: Arjan Vos <arjan@pino.demon.nl>
To: Shin Katsumata <skat@flask.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970115153212.24497A-100000@ns1.flask.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Shin Katsumata wrote:
> Just one word,
>
> Intranet
>
> Shin
> www.flask.com
I expected that question, but then again, what are the consequenses in
technical as well as in organizational sense?
Many intranets I've seen were wide open to all the company - worse
companies are implementing intranest without knowing what they're doing.
I don't think your payroll data need to be accessible by all employees. I
know you can secure a lot, but I think is very hard for "mainframe"-people
to have them getting used to the world of "open communications". I'm
curious how that will evolve.
What about management of UNIX-specific applications or
applications with a UNIX history on a mainframe. Those are two totally
different worlds... At work I'm always argueing (mostly for the sake of
argueing :-))) with mainframe-people about pros and cons of mainframe and
UNIX.
Maybe I'm drifting off-subject or out-of-scope of this maillinglist, but I
would really like to hear some opinions on the subject...
cheers,
Arjan
>
> On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Arjan Vos wrote:
>
> >
> > Just some questions popping into my mind:
> >
> > IBM is now offering OS/390 with spec1170-complient UNIX intergrated and
> > TCP/IP etc. As far I can see IBM's main goal is to offer "open
> > computing" to their exisiting clients with (huge) corporate databases
> > (formerly) under MVS. Though UNIX is integrated, all security-related
> > measures are still being done under RACF or ACF or whatsoever.
> >
> > But, why would one want their corporate datatabes connected to the Net? It
> > is now possible to query DB2 databases, like in UNIX they've been doing
> > with Oracle databases since ages :-))
> > As far as I can see, one would not want to place corporate databases, or
> > high-transactional online systems on the Internet in the first place....
> <snip>
>
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