[ale] OT - SED drive compatibility

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> My biggest issue with this approach is that each system requires manual
> intervention to come up.  We already have our Oracle drones insisting that
> they bring Oracle up manually....sigh.
> Luckily, our HIPAA compliant systems are all Windows-based, and a problem
> for another team :D
> We do have some PCI systems, and that is an unbelievable list of
> requirements, down to not locating PCI VMs on the same virtualization host
> as non-PCI VMs.
>

I would like to see the logic behind that last one!


> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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> Subject: Re: [ale] OT - SED drive compatibility
>
> Added layer of physical security for HIPAA compliance led to the wholesale
> adoption. Yes, remote access and data theft would occur to a decrypted
> filesystem once it's running. But much of my work often requires encrypted
> data at rest for many system and the performance hit is essentially trivial
> compared to the rest of the system, so it's easy to to keep that as a
> default. The HPC systems have absolutely all security disabled and are
> hidden behind firewalls on private LAN, etc.
>
> It also indicates a level of unsure trust of the physical access to the
> systems. Never had an issue but don't want to be on the wrong end if
> something does happen.
>
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