by Amanda Hendley | Sep 1, 2026
For 40 years, Vanguard Security & Compliance has brought together global cybersecurity leaders from both private industry and government agencies to deliver the most complete knowledge-based training for securing and defending the IBM System z®. This event, which...
by Milan Patel | Jun 11, 2026 | Sponsored
The future of enterprise security will not be defined by a single breakthrough. It will be shaped by how well organizations strengthen the fundamentals while adapting to two major shifts happening at once: the explosion of non-human identities (NHIs) and the growing...
by Amanda Hendley | Jun 1, 2026
Content by Broadcom Mainframe Software Quantum computing is moving from theory to reality, creating urgent challenges for the cryptographic systems that protect today’s digital environment. This session explores what organizations need to know now, from emerging...
by Influential Mainframer | Apr 25, 2026 | Influential Mainframers 2026, Innovation, Leadership
Ángel Gómez Ruiz CEO, Bsecure Madrid, Spain This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series. For Ángel Gómez Ruiz, security is not just about protection. It is about proof. Over the past several years, Gómez Ruiz has focused on one of...
by Influential Mainframer | Apr 21, 2026 | Influential Mainframers 2026, Innovation, Leadership
Niall Ashley Security Consultant, Vertali United Kingdom This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series. For Niall Ashley, the strength of the mainframe community lies in how openly it shares. As a security consultant specializing in...
by Influential Mainframer | Apr 12, 2026 | Influential Mainframers 2026, Innovation, Leadership
Kev Milne Instructor – CTI ManagerNeuro Training Ltd Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series. The mainframe still powers a vast portion of the world’s critical infrastructure—financial...
by Influential Mainframer | Apr 10, 2026 | Influential Mainframers 2026, Innovation, Leadership
Emma Skovgård IT Security Engineer, Danske BankFounder, dinoframe.io Copenhagen, Denmark This piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series. For Emma Skovgård, the path into the mainframe ecosystem has been anything but traditional, but...
by Milan Patel and John Pinkowski | Mar 18, 2026 | cyber security, Enterprise IT, Featured
In the world of security, many things have changed since the last release of ACF2 and Top Secret. Credential-based attacks are up – compromised credential-based attacks cost organizations $4.67m annually, while being the initial attack vector 10% of the time¹....
by Planet Mainframe | Feb 19, 2026 | Arcati Navigator
Security and risk management remain central to how organizations operate and evolve their mainframe environments. In the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, respondents describe security as an embedded operational discipline that shapes priorities, tooling, and...
by Penney Berryman | Jan 14, 2026 | careers, Workforce & Training
Career resilience in the mainframe world sounds like jargon—until change hits. Reorgs, new technologies, leadership shifts, or surprise opportunities don’t reward the fastest scramblers. They reward the people who were already ready. That’s the core idea Darren Surch,...
by Kevin Milne | Jan 12, 2026 | Operations & Resilience, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Security
Mainframes hold the heart of the most critical business processes in finance, healthcare, and government. Yet many security programmes still draw a neat line around them, treating z/OS as out of scope for red teaming, scenarios, and cyber risk quantification. This...
by Niall Ashley | Dec 5, 2025 | Compliance & Governance, Security, z/OS
My career has, over the nearly four years of working in this field, predominantly been comprised of RACF Administration and Engineering, interspersed with other opportunities that I foolishly volunteered myself for. Such opportunities have included writing articles,...
by Sonja Soderlund | Nov 6, 2025 | News
IBM Announces Granite 4.0 Free (Cybersecurity) Labs! Upcoming IBM Z Day Chase Card Decommissioning All Mainframe Code, with AI Assistance IBM z/OS Core Collection v1.15.0 GA Released IBM Announces Granite 4.0 IBM has introduced Granite 4.0, initiating a new era for...
by Julie Bergh | Oct 28, 2025 | cyber security, IBM z Systems, Modernization, Security
Passwords Aren’t Enough to Modernize Mainframe Security Security is the backbone of any organization’s control environment. In today’s hyper-connected economy, protecting against IT threats is not just a technical requirement—it’s a business imperative. A single...
