Why mainframe shops are procrastinating over multi-factor authentication
In my last article I outlined why, for a number of reasons, mainframe shops are growing increasingly aware of the…
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Database security – You need to pay better attention to it
Almost 2 years ago, it was reported that over 10,000 MongoDB databases had been deleted by ransomware groups - and much of that was done in a week's time. Let that sink in for a minute - 10,000 databases in…
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Or: We need to talk about mainframe hacking There’s an elephant in the room says Mark Wilson. It’s mainframe-sized, at…
Validating your files
Mainframe files/datasets are liable to change quite often. After all, people are using those files so they are likely to…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.3
Part 3 of 4: The Bad As I’ve explained in Part 1 Basics and Part 2 Good, I did a…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.2
Part 2 of 4: The Good I provided a simplistic overview of what I intended to port to Linux for…
Q: Meltdown, Spectre (and new variants) – how best to cope?
A: Become a Grandmaster at Whack-a-mole! “…used with reference to a situation in which attempts to solve a problem are…
Blockchain technology – the hype versus the reality
(Forget about the Drugs and Rock & Roll… it’s all about the SECS.) Blockchain technology could change the world as…
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…
Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 3
In this series, Janet Sun explores and dispels numerous myths around the mainframe. Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.…
Mainframe news out there – November 2017
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about…