How to solve the Data Privacy issue for test data

How to solve the Data Privacy issue for test data

You may be aware of data privacy regulations such as Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or California’s CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) that, among other things, ban you from using production data with personally identifiable information, such...

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CICS Security – ADCD and Dallas Z ISV RDP

CICS Security – ADCD and Dallas Z ISV RDP

In RACF security terminology, CICS is a resource manager. Resource manager security can be enabled or disabled. Dallas Z ISV RDP provided CICS security is disabled. Why? CICS manages many resources where enabling security requires decisions about which specific CICS...

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Security complacency: is your mainframe at risk?

Security complacency: is your mainframe at risk?

This has been a fine summer. And I’m not talking about the weather: I mean the whopping fines proposed for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by Marriott Hotels and British Airways, followed by an even bigger fine in the US for Equifax –...

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Summer – the season for cyber attacks

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). You may even be running SIEM software to keep up-to-date with what’s happening on your mainframe (and elsewhere)....

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Breach recovery – the fast and the furious!

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 an issue. And now you need to recover from it. What do you do? The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced...

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