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Honestly, this is bananas to me. I work for an IoT company with contracts to places like gas stations and chain restaurants. Freakin Wendy's and places like tha
by obmelvin 7y ago
Honestly, this is bananas to me. I work for an IoT company with contracts to places like gas stations and chain restaurants. Freakin Wendy's and places like that absolutely don't want our product on their network and we have a base station connected to cell network along with our own local wireless network. (fwiw I agree, I think its best we aren't on their network)
I know this is an apples to oranges comparison, but I just find it weird that payment processors (not the banks, I know I know) are the main driver behind these restaurant IT security measures, but other financial institutions have things like this that they do.
- dx034 7y agoI don't think network security is the issue here. Storing plain text passwords is likely a legacy problem, not an active implementation decision. And especially because some systems within the network can be vulnerable, locking down the network as much as possible at every possible point is even more important. Core banking systems can only run on 50 year old code because you have to get through many layers just to get close to accessing them.