Securing data in transit
One way of looking at mainframe data is that it is either at rest or in transit. Data at rest…
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Breach recovery – the fast and the furious!
Your organization has had a data breach. You’ve managed to confirm that it’s not a false alarm, it really is an issue. And now you need to recover from it. What do you do? The US Commerce Department’s National Institute…
Multi-Factor Authentication
There was a time when mainframes were in a world of their own, separated from other computing platforms. A world…
Do I need real-time, continuous, mainframe security monitoring and auditing?
To be honest, mainframes are pretty secure, aren’t they? We’ve had RACF and other External Security Managers (ESMs) for years.…
Validating your files
Mainframe files/datasets are liable to change quite often. After all, people are using those files so they are likely to…
Mainframe apps
While a large chunk of the world seems to think that mainframes are out of date and barely hanging on…
Mainframes don’t need SIEMs, do they?
Mainframes come with plenty of security – why should they use a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), when it…
Getting the basics right
Mainframes are expensive – no-one disagrees with that. But what they can do is run industrial strength workloads for less…
What’s next for green screens?
The great thing about green screens is that they are so easy and so quick to use. Basically, a screen…
What’s waiting round the mainframe corner?
Anyone who has been working on mainframes for any length of time knows that things are always changing. Many people…
2020 vision
I was working recently with a mixed bag of people from a company, who were trying to predict the future…