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by Planet Mainframe | Feb 19, 2026 | Arcati Navigator
Security and risk management remain central to how organizations operate and evolve their mainframe environments. In the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, respondents describe security as an embedded operational discipline that shapes priorities, tooling, and...
by Penney Berryman | Jan 14, 2026 | careers, Workforce & Training
Career resilience in the mainframe world sounds like jargon—until change hits. Reorgs, new technologies, leadership shifts, or surprise opportunities don’t reward the fastest scramblers. They reward the people who were already ready. That’s the core idea Darren Surch,...
by Kevin Milne | Jan 12, 2026 | Operations & Resilience, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Security
Mainframes hold the heart of the most critical business processes in finance, healthcare, and government. Yet many security programmes still draw a neat line around them, treating z/OS as out of scope for red teaming, scenarios, and cyber risk quantification. This...
by Niall Ashley | Dec 5, 2025 | Compliance & Governance, Security, z/OS
My career has, over the nearly four years of working in this field, predominantly been comprised of RACF Administration and Engineering, interspersed with other opportunities that I foolishly volunteered myself for. Such opportunities have included writing articles,...
by Sonja Soderlund | Nov 6, 2025 | News
IBM Announces Granite 4.0 Free (Cybersecurity) Labs! Upcoming IBM Z Day Chase Card Decommissioning All Mainframe Code, with AI Assistance IBM z/OS Core Collection v1.15.0 GA Released IBM Announces Granite 4.0 IBM has introduced Granite 4.0, initiating a new era for...
by Julie Bergh | Oct 28, 2025 | cyber security, IBM z Systems, Modernization, Security
Passwords Aren’t Enough to Modernize Mainframe Security Security is the backbone of any organization’s control environment. In today’s hyper-connected economy, protecting against IT threats is not just a technical requirement—it’s a business imperative. A single...
by Amanda Hendley | Oct 23, 2025 | Analytics, Automation, cyber security, Modernization
For decades, the mainframe has been viewed as one of the most secure computing platforms on Earth. With tightly controlled access, centralized data management, and unmatched reliability, it earned its reputation as the “fortress” of enterprise IT. But, as evidenced in...
by Nancy Grimes | Oct 22, 2025 | careers, cyber security, Mainframe Skills, Women in Tech
From Mainframe to Cybersecurity: Experience Is the New Superpower If you’ve written COBOL, debugged Assembler, or know how to resolve an S0C7 abend, chances are you belong to an older—and increasingly rare—demographic in tech. If you’re a woman, that group is even...
by Leanne Wilson | Oct 21, 2025 | cyber security, Enterprise IT, Risk Management, Security, Sponsored
Vertali’s Leanne Wilson reflects on a year of cyber attacks and what needs to happen now. 2025 was quite a year for cyber attacks. The UK in particular experienced a significant surge, with 43% of businesses reporting at least one incident and an astounding 91% of...
by Amanda Hendley | Oct 15, 2025 | cyber security, Hybrid IT, Innovation, Security
Simplifying Mainframe Security with Broadcom As hybrid IT environments expand, so do the risks. In this video, Broadcom’s mainframe security expert, Ravi Patil, Director of Cybersecurity and Compliance, breaks down how compliance, continuous monitoring, and smarter...
by Amanda Hendley | Oct 14, 2025 | Analytics, Big Data, DB2, Security, Video
At the September Virtual Db2 User Group, we hosted Colin Knight, longtime mainframer and Db2 Systems Programming Tech Lead at NatWest. With over 40 years in the field—36 of them working with Db2—Colin cut through the hype to focus on what matters most: security when...
by Sonja Soderlund | Oct 13, 2025 | cyber security, Trivia
For many of us, October is about falling leaves, shorter days, and cooler weather. It also happens to be Cybersecurity month, the time when we dial in on the never-ending (and ever-evolving) task of securing the mainframe. Mainframes have a reputation for being...
by Sarah Maloney Beckel | Oct 10, 2025 | Cyber Resilience, DevSecOps, Security, Supply Chain Transparency
The most secure system in the world is also vulnerable. Mainframes remain the backbone of critical infrastructure—but they are not immune to modern threats. Some still see mainframes as unbreakable fortresses, while others view them as legacy systems lagging in modern...
by Milan Patel | Oct 9, 2025 | cyber security
At the recent Vanguard Security & Compliance 2025 event (VSC 2025), security leaders came together to address today’s toughest mainframe security challenges, ranging from credential theft to Zero Trust adoption. As a Platinum Sponsor, Broadcom highlighted how...
