Reducing the Attack Surface: Sometimes you can give the monkey a less-dangerous club.

The article presents an answer to a question regarding how to make a computer monitor-control system secure from cyberterrorists while allowing quality assurance (QA) and factory teams to access code that offers several debugging features, specifically a command-line interpreter (CLI).

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 27 - 29
Main Author: Neville-Neil, George V.
Format: Question & Answer
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2018
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