[Cialug] Password Manager
Thomas Kula
kula at tproa.net
Tue Oct 2 18:45:11 UTC 2018
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 04:19:00PM -0400, Todd Walton wrote:
>
> On the topic of nerd-speak, looking over Hashicorp Vault I found the phrase
> "break-glass procedure". I didn't know what it was so I looked it up. It
> seems to me that Hashicorp is misusing the phrase. Everywhere else says
> it's a way to get emergency access (while leaving a highly visible trail of
> having done so). Hashicorp seems to be using it like "if the Russian mafia
> just broke the windows on your house you can quickly lock down access". So,
> emergency *non*-access.
Think of it "you need to do this drastic action and have to punch
through a pane of glass to do so".
Full disclosure: I work for HashiCorp and try to convince tech people to
buy things from us.
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