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Guest blog – Mainframe security: who needs it?

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, November 13, 2011 - 333 views

This week, for a change, I’m publishing a blog entry from Peter Goldberg, a senior solution architect at Liaison Technologies, a global provider of cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions based in Atlanta. He works directly with customers to identify their unique data security and integration challenges and helps to design solutions to suit their organizations’ requirements. A frequent speaker at industry conferences on eBusiness security issues and solutions, he can be reached at pgoldberg@liaison.com.

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Where do the tablets go?

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 214 views

So, your organization has a mainframe – had one for years – and everything is nicely locked down. You can recover almost up to the minute the system or subsystem crashed (which it hardly ever does), and you’ve got people who seem to know, almost by instinct these days, when something isn’t performing quite right.

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Social Security Data Center Past Its Prime

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 399 views

The Social Security Administration is preparing for a wave of baby boomers to reach retirement age. It’s doing so with data centers and legacy systems that are downright ancient, according to a financial assessment from the agency.

Along with the outdated data centers, the SSA is wrestling with restructuring or replacing legacy systems and applications, particularly its Common Object Business Oriented Language (COBOL) software.

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A real-world DB2 for z/OS encryption success story at Verizon Wireless

Posted by Mike on Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 687 views

Are you a DB2® professional challenged by your business to conform to regulatory pressures such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance initiatives? Is your security officer asking about encryption? Are you concerned about the impact of encryption on application performance, availability and your ability to maintain service levels? These are valid concerns, and now you can learn how one major telecommunications company addressed them through a successful encryption implementation. (READ MORE)

Don’t Wait To Lock Down DB2

Posted by Mike on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 192 views

As pundits ponder how IBM will leverage its acquisition of database security vendor Guardium to add more security features and functionalities to its in-house DB2 databases, now is the time for organizations to re-examine their DB2 security strategies. But many haven’t even tapped the security features they already have available in DB2.

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