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Re: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report)
From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf () alameda net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:35:38 -0700
The auditors VMware sent to us were just as bad. To ensure we weren't running "rogue" ESX(i) servers or WorkStation, they made us provide full arp/cam tables. Then a list of the virtual machines. "Oh look, this MAC isn't listed as one of your virtual machines". It isn't because it was running on virtual box or something like that. Auditor didn't know you could export a virtual machine from VMware and load it into another visualization software and it would keep the VMware MAC .... On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:31 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net> wrote:On 4/30/2014 11:30 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:And in that discussion, we ascertained that what the PCI standardactuallysays, and what you need to do in order to get unclued boneheadedauditorsto sign the piece of paper, are two very different things.I am no longer active on the battlefield but as of the last time I was,itcan't be did. For years I managed various aspect of a UNIVAC 1100 operation and theauditsthereof. EVERY TIME, we were dinged badly because we didn't look like an IBM shop (some may be surprised to learn that different hardware and different operating systems require very different operating procedures(andit appeared to us that some of the things they wanted us to do wouldweakenus badly, others just simply didn't make any sense, and we got dinged for things we DID do, because they were strange.I won the argument with PCI auditors about leaving telnet alive on my exterior router (which at the time would have had to be replaced to support ssh). It's not a chore for the timid. You'd better be a heck of a guru before you challenge the auditors expectations and you'd better be prepared for your boss' aggravation that the audit isn't done yet. And I think we pretty well established that PCI auditors arrive expecting to see NAT. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
-- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-396-1764 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
Current thread:
- Re: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report) Ulf Zimmermann (Apr 30)
- RE: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report) David Hubbard (Apr 30)
- Re: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report) Alain Hebert (May 01)
- Re: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report) William Herrin (May 01)
- Re: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report) TGLASSEY (May 01)
- Re: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report) Alain Hebert (May 01)
- RE: Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report) David Hubbard (Apr 30)