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The Linux version of CS sensor defaults to being installed as a kernel module as well.
by tastroder 2y ago
The Linux version of CS sensor defaults to being installed as a kernel module as well.
- anothernewdude 2y agoWho would trust that?
- fragmede 2y agoyour employer's IT department
- pdw 2y agoAnd especially their auditors
- braiamp 2y agoThis is a management move. IT probably wasn't in the loop, since this effectively reduce the responsibilities of IT in terms of compliance.
- inkyoto 2y agoThe cyber unit within IT is more likely, those ones are besotted with ticking compliance checkboxes, the delegation of responsibility and a game of musical chairs at any cost. It is even more likely that IT was at loggerheads with cyber, but nowadays cyber seems to be able to trump everything and everyone.
- nopcode 2y agoI work in a customer-facing role for a similar product. The handful of customers that asked about kernel modules / drivers saw it as a plus not a con.
- cnotv 2y agoI complained specifically about that and they bounced it back to me like this was safe and cannot use the machine as I want.
- quickthrowman 2y agoA business that is party to a contract that requires the use of such software.
- fifteen1506 2y agovia Reddit, don't know where so can't credit: Kernel panic observed after booting 5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4.x86_64 by falcon-sensor process -- https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083 -- 1 month ago