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What's your plan for if an attacker gets access to your IPMI system and uses it to put rootkits on all your machines, including the ones that you image other machines from?

... or when that system gets hacked, like Mobile Guardian, where the hackers remote-wiped thousands of systems [1].

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Mobile-Device-Management-Einbreche...

The IPMI network is airgapped

> PC .. IPMI

Since IPMI is usually on servers, did you mean Intel vPro / AMD DASH for PC clients?

They clearly mean “Windows machine,” not “personal computer.”

IPMI?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managem...

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

Most severs have a management microcontroller in them that is capable of administoring the main system, typically including (but not limited to) full keyboard video and mouse access.

Typically this is exposed through a dedicated ethernet port, allowing administrators to remotely manage their servers.