A Successful View of IT Security

Implications: If hackers could get into the banking system they could steal billions and possibly even trillions of dollars. They can’t, and they have been trying for at least twenty years. No virus scanner is needed when running the very rigid banking applications we built years ago using large IBM mainframe computers.

Analysis: Homeland, Immigration and very possibly the FBI were badly cyber-attacked. The attack was so severe that it might explain why Jeremy Jones the alleged serial killer was arrested and quickly released on several occasions. He confessed that each time he was released he killed another woman.

It also might explain how in the Aguela Case the fingerprints of a 5’10” adult male matched with an alias that was 5’7’ and yet another alias that was 6’4”. Biometrics is of little value if hackers can readily substitute fingerprints.

I believe IBM’s large scale Z9 environment similar to that used in the banking community will start to benefit from these and other Window’s based unfortunate incidents. Centralization either virtual or otherwise restricts intrusion points; not having to deal with viruses is a major problem simplification.

With regard to Microsoft Vista, my firm is going to write a Vista Compatible internet email program that shrugs of viruses and another firm I know of is planning to write an Internet browser that does the same thing. There may be other firms out there planning on doing the same thing.

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