Recover Quickly With Surgical Precision

Recover Quickly With Surgical Precision

Resiliency is an integral part of the IBM Z platform. The IBM Z Cyber Vault solution is a concept for addressing data corruption whether through malicious intent, human error or failure of hardware or software. It provides an air gapped backup of the operating...

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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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