by Craig Mullins | Sep 22, 2023 | DB2
Last time we looked at Db2v13 improvements in the areas of Availability, Resiliency, and Scalability and Performance. This time we look at how Db2v13 improves on Security and Simplification and Serviceability. Improving the security and protection of data is one of...
by Lee Sullivan | Jul 28, 2023 | Media, podcast
Each month, z/Action! meets some of the world’s most innovative companies as they share how they’re expanding horizons and driving success with IBM Z. This month we welcome PKWARE’s Jason Dobbs and EJ Pappas. They’re here to discuss cybersecurity: how the...
by Communications | Jul 28, 2023
AI Has Entered the Chat and It’s Shaking Up Cybersecurity By: Lee Sullivan With the sudden onset of AI, data threats have changed and increased in velocity almost overnight. “This wave of change is going be a lot faster than some of the previous waves that have...
by Mark Wilson | Jul 7, 2023 | cyber security
“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.” That was according to Richard Clarke, former special advisor on cybersecurity to the US President. He added, “What’s more, you deserve to be hacked,” which does seem a little harsh. Maybe...
by Lee Sullivan | Mar 29, 2023 | Media, podcast
You can’t afford to have data at risk. In today’s hybrid-cloud environment, security and resiliency are top-of-mind. Listen as 21st Century Software CEO Rebecca Levesque and IBM zSystems Ecosystem VP Meredith Stowell discuss the current business landscape and how...
by Communications | Feb 1, 2023
Fit-for-Business Purpose Means Security and Resiliency By: Lee Sullivan You can’t afford to have data at risk. In today’s hybrid-cloud environment, security and resiliency are top-of-mind. Listen as 21st Century Software CEO Rebecca Levesque and IBM zSystems Ecosystem...
by Christopher Tozzi | Nov 24, 2022 | Security
You could argue – as some folks have – that mainframes are inherently more secure than commodity servers because there are fewer variables at play on mainframe systems, making them easier to secure in some ways. The fact that mainframes account for a relatively small...
by Robert Catterall | Sep 28, 2022 | DB2, Security
In the Db2 for z/OS module called DSNZPARM (ZPARM, for short), which provides the configuration settings for a Db2 subsystem, there is a parameter named SEPARATE_SECURITY. This ZPARM was introduced with Db2 10, and its purpose is to enable a Db2 for z/OS-using...
by Henrik Loeser | Sep 14, 2022 | Cloud
Cybersecurity is always in a state of change. There are new security features and new attack methods – or was it the other way? Over the past months, several new security features were added to IBM Cloud. In this blog post, I want to quickly describe them and...
by Amy Dall | Nov 11, 2021 | Security
For a considerable time, many organizations have used three to five on-premise databases to manage their workloads, and many teams have tried to funnel every application into using those databases. Today, as the pressure to innovate while keeping costs low...
by Paul Newton | Nov 3, 2021 | Security
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...
by Planet Mainframe | Jul 27, 2021
CICS User Group | July 2021 What’s New in CICS Security Virtual CICS Sponsor Colin Penfold Technical LeaderIBM CICS Transaction Server Security Download the Presentation Upcoming CICS Session Mar 17 11:30 am - 1:30 pm EDT Virtual CICS User Group | March 17, 2026 View...
by Trevor Eddolls | Mar 11, 2021 | Security
For everyone with a mainframe, cyber security and cyber resiliency are important. For financial institutions, a major breach could, potentially, not only lead to the company going out of business, but, as we saw in 2008, could also lead to significant parts of the...
by Mark Wilson | Feb 11, 2021 | Security
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and profits nobody. That old nautical phrase popped into my head when I first heard about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’ll return to that later, and its implications. But first I wanted to take a look at a few of the...
by Keith Allingham | Nov 11, 2019 | Security
Okay, that’s it – I hate IT security. And I really think that many folks in IT are actually like Mordac, the Preventer of IT, from the Dilbert comic strip. Okay, that’s not fair… Allow me to back up just a bit to explain where I’m coming from....
