Now in its 17th year, the Cost of a Data Breach Report has become one of the leading benchmark reports in the cybersecurity industry. This report offers IT, risk management and security leaders a lens into dozens of factors that can increase or help mitigate the...

The bank has tens of mainframe Lpars used for development, text, integration and production work. Each Lpar is configured to best performance and availability. The bank auditors need to verify thousands of configuration and permission items to ensure the systems are...

When your business needs to meet demanding federal regulations and industry standards, but you rely on manual processing for security scans and auditing, proving compliance can be an ongoing chore of enormous time and effort.  Download the article in PDF format

In December 2020, Garanti BBVA installed IronSphere in a sandbox Lpar in order to test the product in a quarantined environment. After two months, they moved the product to the development and production Lpars. Since then, Garanti BBVA technical and security teams are...

A mainframe, just like any other computingplatform, need to be audited. I mean status audit,not event audit which is different and will bediscussed in my next article. What is status audit?This is the process usually called securityassessment or Security Readiness...

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It is a common belief that mainframe computers and operating systems are more secure than other operating systems. It is so common, that even
mainframe experts believe in! But, are mainframe really more secure? I’ll try to answer this question and may be, break a myth.