I also have a minor in law enforcement. I was going to be an FBI agent at one time. There is no perfect security. But, there are varying degrees of security. The security at my bank is better than at my house. Mainframe security is better than other platforms. It’s a major selling point.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, May 12, 2019, 12:27 PM, ITschak Mugzach <imugz...@gmail.com> wrote: Security only mentioned twice in the article, mainly in access control. None was related to the OS as a secure platform. I agree it has the potential, but the actual grade in many sites I tested are poor. it returns me to the fact that security is something cultural and depend on your role. if you are measured only for availability, why care about security? this is how many technicians think, not only for mainframes... A periodic testing of security health (White, Gray or Black box PT) is of value only to the time of test. and as it take long time to complete, it might be false finding weeks later as systems are changing all time. ITschak On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 6:43 PM Bill Johnson < 00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Can you provide evidence that says non mainframe platforms are as secure > or more secure than the mainframe? I'll wait in Cleveland as the airport is > being held hostage to an attack and ransom to return its system files back. > Cleveland acknowledges for first time Hopkins airport hack involved > ransomware > > | > | > | > | | | > > | > > | > | > | | > Cleveland acknowledges for first time Hopkins airport hack involved rans... > > The city did not respond to an email address seeking contact with airport > officials. > | > > | > > | > > > > > On Saturday, May 11, 2019, 7:54:17 PM EDT, Phil Smith III < > li...@akphs.com> wrote: > > You know, I'm as big a fan of the mainframe as anyone. I've used > mainframes for at least 45 of my 58 years on this planet, have made my > living off them for almost 40 of those, and continue to do so. > > > > But the articles Bill Johnson is citing as proof that the mainframe is so > superior to other platforms are seriously weak, if read with a critical eye. > > > > For those of us in the mainframe part of the industry, failing to > recognize that the mainframe is in trouble is beyond folly-it's hastening > its demise. Every year, more customers migrate away because they can, or at > least think they can. The real value of the mainframe today is in the > business logic implemented in billions of lines of COBOL and assembler and > PL/I and the rest. Reimplementing that from the ground up is what fails > every time, whether spectacularly (as in, it flat-out doesn't work and has > to be scrapped) or not (with "only" significant loss of function and/or > bugs that the folks on the ground must work through with great cost and > pain). > > > > We as mainframe fans need to keep our eyes on that ball, and use that > extremely compelling argument against migration, not wave our hands and say > "It's gooderT!" and expect that to somehow prevail against the evidence. > > > > .phsiii > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
