SEC Project Opening - The Need for Continuous Security Monitoring and Enforcement

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Security and Compliance

Tags: Proceedings , SHARE Virtual Experience 2021

How do you know the bad actors didn’t just disabled your mainframe security on one of the many z/OS Systems connected together? How do you know a bad actor did not just APF authorize his personal load library? How about someone updating one of the Trusted Started Task procedures adding a new step that compromises your mainframe? Let’s talk about robust Mainframe Information Security Continuous Monitoring and what are some of the elements that should be part of that program for your organization.
2021 has seen the names of Colonial Pipeline, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Apple, Solairus, Microsoft & California DMV in the news for hacks, ransomware and phishing attempts. These types of activities require strict diligence and enforcement of the operating environment. Understanding and discovering the systems environment’s vulnerabilities, closing the found gaps, while preventing the gaps to re-appear and become more critical than ever, becomes a rigorous best practice.

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