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While a large chunk of the world seems to think that mainframes are out of date and barely hanging on…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…