HP NonStop Server Security
This handbook provides readable advice on the key decisions in safeguarding the numerous components of the HP NonStop environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS HP NonStop Server Security
Chapter 7: Securing Applications
Understanding Application Development
Generally, applications and system tools that run on the HP NonStop server come from the following sources:
In-House application development
Third-party vendor applications
Legacy applications
In-House system tools
Third-party system tools
Regardless of the source, great care must be taken to properly secure an application, its database and its configuration files. First, we will discuss securing applications and later we will deal with system tools.
Applications are the company's business application(s). They are the reason for using the HP NonStop server. In essence, applications are the most important entity on the machine. Everything else that runs on the system supports the application.
In House Application Development
In-house application development is the most mysterious environment of an enterprise; mysterious to everyone other than developers and their managers. To most people, developers are geeks that wear cutoffs, sandals and beanies with propellers. You can hear them talking about the Source, Schemas, Buffers, Parsers and State Machines. How can any normal human communicate with such strange people?
Other than the strange language they speak, developers are no different than the rest of us. The exception is how they perceive computers. Computers are their universe and they take pride in inventing ways to make those electronic devices hum. To developers, there is nothing like a machine obeying their every command. To that extent they strive to learn every computer language on the planet.
Developers DO NOT like to be bogged down with computer security. They would be happiest if they...
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