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Am in my first IBMi class literally right now. It seems completely different than the Windows/Linux systems I've used for the last 25 years. There are techs fr
by artificialLimbs 6y ago
Am in my first IBMi class literally right now. It seems completely different than the Windows/Linux systems I've used for the last 25 years.
There are techs from 2 other companies in attendance. Apparently IBMi is used widely in banking.
It was the only thing NOT totaled when we got hit with ransomware, and is what holds our PII for our clients/workers.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago> It was the only thing NOT totaled when we got hit with ransomware, and is what holds our PII for our clients/workers. Because it's actually more secure, or because it's so obscure that the malware didn't know what to do with it?
- thequux 6y agoSome combination of the two. IBM i has its vulnerabilities, but because of the way that the OS is built, getting code execution accidentally is extremely difficult, and even getting native code to run given full access to the system requires mucking about with the objects on disk. However, with IBM i comes PASE, which provides a AIX-like environment that can run most software built for AIX directly, and that's going to have the same sort of vulnerabilities as any other UNIX system. As far as I know, that's mostly used for new development, though, because developers don't like learning unfamiliar platforms.