Why Mainframe Security Falls Outside Zero Trust Strategies Disconnected identity controls, overlooked integration paths, and siloed teams can leave mainframes outside Zero Trust strategies. Closing the blind spots starts with shared accountability. Mainframe Zero...
The US celebrates Halloween annually on October 31 with candy, costumes, and ghost stories. In celebration, this week's trivia is spook-tacular! For our final Trivia Challenge of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re taking a Halloween tour of the things that...
Compare how z/OS and VSEⁿ handle access control, threat detection, and cyber recovery – and what those differences mean for your workloads. A fair comparison of z/OS vs. VSEⁿ security starts with business requirements, operational risks, and recovery needs. ...
Closing the Gap: IBM Z® Cyber Vault and IBM® Db2® Recovery Expert Pro for z/OS® An unplanned outage can devastate business continuity. Enterprises do everything they can to prevent this. With the current abundance of AI and access to domain expertise for everyone,...
The mainframe hasn’t changed. The economics of attacking it have. Encryption, authentication, and access controls deserve another look. In early April 2026, Anthropic published a research preview of Claude Mythos, a general-purpose model whose security capabilities...
Cybercriminals collaborate. Shouldn't mainframe security professionals do the same? At SHARE 2026, I had the opportunity to sit down with Linda McGrath, Sales Director at Vertali, and Andrew Penlington, Channel Partner Development Manager, to discuss Mainframe Shield,...
Mainframes have always carried a certain reputation. Big iron. Rock solid. Secure by design. The systems quietly humming away in the corner while the rest of IT panicked about the latest breach or ransomware headline. For a long time, that reputation was deserved....
In this first-person piece, Robi Singh shares what he learned in Rome about the changing demands of mainframe resilience—from regulation and cyber recovery to GDPS, AI, and quantum-safe security.The z/Resilience Conference is known for bringing together mainframe...
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....
Introduction Over the last few years there has been an ever-increasing number of widely publicised problems involving notable corporate organisations and the failings of their IT systems. Incidents of ransomware, hacking and phishing are becoming worryingly...
