Cybersecurity

Key AI and Cybersecurity Considerations for 2024

IBM security experts Sam Hector and John Dwyer highlight key cybersecurity threats in 2024, including AI and ransomware, and discuss ways to safeguard your IT environment from bad actors

Mainframe Security in the Age of AI

IBM security experts Sam Hector and Didier André weigh in on mainframe cybersecurity in the age of AI and explore how to respond to evolving cyber threats

A Closer Look at a Federally Designated Tech Hub

This October, the White House announced 31 communities around the country as Regional Innovation and Technology Hubs, called “Tech Hubs.” Each of the Tech Hubs designated will focus on developing innovative technologies such as semiconductors, clean energy, biotechnology, quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and others. The 31 were chosen from nearly 200 applications and are […]

Vertali zTrust: Detect Network Activity and Control Traffic to Enhance Cybersecurity and Compliance

zTrust reveals network activity to and from your mainframe, confirming that your network access controls are correct—and ensures access for authorized users only while denying everyone else. While mainframe sites can have a reasonable view of who is using applications at the userid level, most don’t have an accurate, up-to-date picture of actual network activity. […]

The Complete Beginners’ Guide to Hacking a Mainframe

Any movie or TV show makes hacking seem like a trivial affair. A couple of minutes of screen time and some nerdy kid shouts, “I’m in.” Five minutes later, all the data has been stolen and dangerous applications have been rewritten (compiled and executed). We know that’s not how it happens, but the worrying thing […]

The IBM i Marketplace Survey Reaches Year 10

This transcript is edited for clarity. Paul Tuohy: Hello and welcome to another iTalk Business with Tuohy. Delighted to be joined again today —we’re seeing a lot of each other a lot of each other recently, Tom [laughs]. Tom Huntington: I think it’s a good thing though, Paul. It’s a good thing. Paul: Oh, I know it […]

An Early Warning System for Ransom Attacks and Mainframe Breaches

Most mainframe sites can’t afford to be down for more than a few minutes—let alone the hours or days required to respond to a cyberattack with conventional processes. What is needed is an early warning system to detect and neutralize the most common forms of malicious attacks. The Benefits and Risks of Encryption Encryption can […]

MainTegrity: Fight Back Against Ransomware

How to protect your mainframe and recover from malicious attacks

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Mainframe Security in the Age of AI

In theory, mainframe security should be easy—mainframes use RACF or similar products to control who can do what. However, security has never really been that easy, and today it definitely isn’t easy at all. The Challenges of Modern Mainframe Security First, mainframes aren’t little islands of computer processing anymore. They are intimately connected to the […]

The Glass Is More Than Half Full: From Attack to Defense

Vertali’s Mark Wilson discusses why it’s time to change the mindset around mainframes and cyber threats—making the platform part of every cybersecurity conversation in the organization