by Mark Wilson | Aug 5, 2024 | Mainframe
As a teenager, I fell in love with mainframes and motorcycles. In the latter case, to be more precise, with classic Kawasaki bikes of the 1970s and 80s. And for me, there are important crossovers. The first point is that I love building and fixing things. The...
by Planet Mainframe | Jul 25, 2024
CICS User Group | July 2024 CICS Security in a RACF Environment Mark Wilson will cover the basic security settings in a CICS/RACF environment and explain what the parameters mean from a CICS and security perspective. He will also discuss the different configuration...
by Penney Berryman | Jul 12, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Mainframe
“I have great expectations for the growth of the mainframe because of AI.” Cheryl Watson, CEO and co-founder, Watson & Walker The reliable and powerful mainframe might have stayed a contented Clydsdale, efficiently crisscrossing the computing arena and doing its...
by Mark Wilson | Jun 27, 2024 | Observability, resiliency
‘Cyber resilience’ seems to be discussed everywhere these days, in light of continuing cyberattacks, and recent concerns that organizations may not be ready to meet the requirements of the Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) from January 2025. In essence, cyber...
by Vertali | Jun 13, 2024 | resiliency
How can you ensure your mainframe systems can provide the consistent reliability, availability and performance that you and your customers expect — and that if you run into problems, expert help is on the case quickly? How can you calculate the real-life impact of...
by Amanda Hendley | May 15, 2024
Recognizing the global need for cybersecurity education, Vanguard Security & Compliance is a premier gathering of cybersecurity professionals from around the world. VSC offers a comprehensive program that balances educational sessions with interactive workshops...
by Vertali | May 14, 2024 | resiliency
The Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA), which applies from 17th January 2025, is an EU regulation relevant to financial institutions. It seeks to establish a universal framework for incident response, risk management and mitigation, and governance regarding the...
by Tony Amies | May 9, 2024 | Security
Perhaps higher than you may think. Total loss of network connectivity is a critical event that can be hard to diagnose and recover from, especially if the systems specialists cannot connect to the system. The three mostly likely causes for total network failure on a...
by Penney Berryman | Apr 10, 2024 | Highlight, influential-mainframers, Mainframe
Penney Berryman from Planet Mainframe connected with Mark for a few minutes between his work in the UK and his hobby of restoring motorcycles.Mark Wilson’s energy and easy laugh infuse the conversation in person or on the phone. He throws his head back and guffaws,...
by Communications | Mar 27, 2024
Below is our list of 2024’s Most Influential Mainframers. Top Mainframe Influencer Cheryl Watson Founder, The Tuning Letter View Featured Article Top Mainframe Influencer Mark Wilson Technical Director, Vertali View Featured Article Top Mainframe Influencer PJ...
by Vertali | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured, Mainframe
Executive Summary Mainframes hold an organization’s most critical and sensitive business data, making it crucial to ensure that data is secure and meets the strictest privacy regulations. Controlling access through network micro-segmentation is an effective way to...
by Vertali | Feb 27, 2024 | Whitepaper
Mainframes hold an organization’s most critical and sensitive business data, making it crucial to ensure that data is secure and meets the strictest privacy regulations. Controlling access through network micro-segmentation is an effective way to protect sensitive...
by Communications | Feb 1, 2024
21CS Product/Service Information:Product families developed by 21CS experts lie in the areas of data and storage management, resiliency, analytics, and system and operational tools. Since 1992, 21CS has been developing solutions for foundational disk and tape...
by Communications | Feb 1, 2024
Micro-segmentation Keeps Sensitive Mainframe Data in Compliance Executive Summary Mainframes hold an organization’s most critical and sensitive business data, making it crucial to ensure that data is secure and meets the strictest privacy regulations. Controlling...
by Mark Wilson | Oct 30, 2023 | cyber security
Earlier this year, I presented sessions at SHARE New Orleans on mainframe security, hacking, and security assessments. These spiked quite a bit of interest among attendees. In particular, a conversation kicked off with several leading mainframe-focused software...
