bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

[bill at herrin.us (William Herrin)]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:25 AM Naslund, Steve <SNaslund at medline.com> wrote:
> You are free to disagree all you want with the default deny-all
> policy but it is a DoD 5200.28-STD requirement and NSA
> Orange Book TCSEC requirement.

And yet I got my DoD system ATOed my way earlier this year by
demonstrating to the security controls assessment team that the cost
of default-deny-all exceeded the risk cost of default-allow with IDS
alerts on unexpected traffic.

Because not spending more on a security implementation than the amount
by which it reduces the risk cost, is a CORE SECURITY PRINCIPLE while
default-deny-all is merely a standard policy.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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