Q: Meltdown, Spectre (and new variants) – how best to cope?
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Security
Multi-Factor Authentication Has Arrived – The Mainframes Are Ready
Retinal scans. Face recognition. Fingerprint scanners. Spoken phrases. Randomized pins. Those cool full-body laser scanners from the movies. Science fiction has correctly predicted many aspects of how we live in the digital age, including the rise of security practices involving…
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…
Mainframers are starting to ask questions about security – and that’s a good thing
IT security crises are forever making business headlines. In 2017 it was the high profile ransomware attacks and huge data…