RE: Database security

From: Hemant K Chitale <hkchital_at_singnet.com.sg>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 23:40:47 +0800
Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20040317233914.00ad1e90@pop.singnet.com.sg>

The "backup" is the manager/ IT Security Officer who has the password [or the two halves of the password]
written down on a piece of paper , such paper being placed in a FireProof Safe.

So what happens if the manager / IT Security Officer decides to take a "peek" at the password ?

Hemant
At 10:30 AM 17-03-04 -0400, you wrote:
>Er... what happens if one of the two people gets hit by a bus?
>
>Just curious.
>
>Patrice.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Whittle Jerome Contr NCI [mailto:Jerome.Whittle_at_scott.af.mil]
>Sent: March 17, 2004 10:14 AM
>To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Cc: ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
>Subject: RE: Database security
>
>You'd have to hire guards to shoot anyone entering the No Lone Zone solo.
>Reminds me of my aircraft maintenance days in the military. Of course the
>stakes were MUCH higher then.
>Jerry Whittle
>ASIFICS DBA
>NCI Information Systems Inc.
>jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
>618-622-4145
>-----Original Message----- From: MacGregor, Ian A.
>[SMTP:ian_at_slac.stanford.edu] There is also the idea of two-man
>control. No one is allowed sole access to the machine room. No one knows
>the entire root/admin or dba password. I know of many places which
>implement two-man control for physical security, but none that have
>carried it to the computer security level. It would be so burdensome.
>
>Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
><<mailto:ian_at_slac.stanford.edu>mailto:ian_at_slac.stanford.edu>

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