Key areas were kidnapped by IoE

Summary: The Snowden event pushes IoE (IBM, Oracle, and EMC) to the forefront of information security, which occupies a monopolistic market position in domestic hosts, databases and high-end storage. Recently, the State Council issued "on the promotion of information consumption to expand domestic demand

The Snowden event pushes IoE (IBM, Oracle, and EMC) to the forefront of information security, which dominates the market in domestic hosts, databases and high-end storage. Recently, the State Council issued a "on the promotion of information consumption to expand domestic demand", which is the first time the government to promote information consumption to the national economic level.

Banking was kidnapped by IoE

Take banking as an example. China has a total of 21 national banks, 256 local commercial banks, 2,455 Rural credit cooperatives and cooperative banks, and 635 village and township banks. In the above-mentioned enterprise information construction, domestic X86 server (also known as Universal Server) can basically and IoE rival, but at the mainframe level, basically by IBM Monopoly.

The industry calls for information security by going to IoE. But going to IoE is not a simple event, as an example of a host (usually a high-end server with more than 8 processors), the current domestic manufacturers only wave in the January this year launched this category of products, the field is basically IBM monopoly, HP and Oracle also occupy a small share.

Indeed, regulators have already begun to encourage the production of IT systems in financial institutions. However, the relevant departments and organizations to investigate the status of IT equipment localization, a city firm to submit the result is "domestic brand usage rate is basically 0." It is reported that this is a common phenomenon.

Analysis of hidden danger of safety

China's banking sector has been largely kidnapped by IoE, a potential disadvantage of two:

1, illegal hiding resident in the system, after the malicious function of precision design, commonly known as "backdoor", its existence form can be parasitic in the chip or electronic circuit board card Hardware logic module, can also reside in the normal running system of malicious software code. These backdoor can be used for Remote Shutdown Control command, hidden system login account, hidden data transmission pipeline, malicious keyboard input operation records and so on.

A simple example is the Microsoft Black screen event, which shows that Microsoft can remotely control the software at any time.

2,ioe equipment system is complex, management and maintenance technology is difficult, and do not disclose its technical details, can only through the continuous payment of high service costs, forced to accept foreign equipment suppliers for remote maintenance management. In the maintenance process, the system control power and the data in the system are completely exposed to foreign equipment suppliers, which brings huge security risks.

It's difficult to go to IoE, not overnight

Wave Group senior Vice President Wang Endong in the interview with Sohu it said that the gap in the host system is the crux of the delay in localization. Now the financial institutions of large procurement is still foreign host system, the international giants in the high-end area to use their monopoly position to raise prices, grab a large number of industrial profits, in the low-end areas, deliberately depress prices, or even lower than domestic manufacturers, is to let domestic manufacturers can not enter the financial industry.

The handover of domestic products is bound to be accompanied by a certain technical risks, the current policies for technical risk punishment is very heavy, but the promotion of domestic and incentive is not perfect, have expert advice, can consider to adopt incentive system, to promote the gradual substitution of localization.

For the banking sector, to IOE will be a long-term strategic project, the National Informatization Advisory Committee member Ningjia that in the key systems of various industries to gradually improve the proportion of localization is a very realistic national strategic needs, such a major project, the need for national supporting policies, the need for national industry development, Even the promotion of civic strategic awareness is needed. We should make a long-term plan, start from small place.