Tell me about COBOL
Let me start by telling you a story… Once there was a big town and everyone went to school and…
Fear the Mainframe
For many years, it seems, management and the distributed IT team have, more-or-less, ignored the mainframe. The mainframe has been…
Mainframes, containers, and Linux
We all know why mainframes are good – all that reliability, availability, and security stuff that we’ve been hearing about…
Summer – the season for cyber attacks
Keeping your mainframe secure is probably one of your top priorities. You’re looking at cryptography and introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA).…
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…
Securing data in transit
One way of looking at mainframe data is that it is either at rest or in transit. Data at rest…
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.…