Minimizing your attack surface is an important security principle. This has been a challenge with bloated operating systems, but this is changing with an interesting build of Windows 2008 Server called Server Core. To make matters even more interesting, a control system vendor will soon release an application on Server Core. Hopefully this is the start of a trend.

Bryan Owen of OSIsoft joins me in this podcast to discuss Server Core, and their efforts to create a minimal attack surface version of the PI server running on Server Core. Other important benefits of Server Core include substantially reduced security patching and reduced hardware requirements.

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BTW, OSIsoft is looking for beta customers for this more secure build.

Disclosure: OSIsoft is contributing product and is a partner in Digital Bond’s Dept. of Energy research project.