Mainframes are by design far more secure. For good reason. The exposure is catastrophic potentially. It’s one of the main reasons why banks rely and stay on it and spend tens of millions for it. I’ve already provided numerous links referencing it. Add in my criminal justice knowledge along with my computer science degree and 40 years of experience in IT and security. But don’t let me dispel your beliefs.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, May 27, 2019, 11:45 AM, Chad Rikansrud <mainfr...@bigendiansmalls.com> wrote: At the risk of re-kicking the already dead horse: Bill, you're comparing apples and spiders. Are there fewer mainframe 'hacks'? Yep. There are also exponentially fewer mainframes than Windows / Android / Mac / IOS / Linux. Like - a few thousand mainframes compared to 2.5 BILLION users of Windows/Linux/Mac/Android & IOS combined. That is somewhere between 250,000 - 500,000x more installs of those OS's. And they are freely available for literally anyone to poke at. What you're arguing "Because Windows gets hacked daily, and mainframes are never in the news as have being hacked - means that mainframes are more secure .. more 'hack-proof'" Is like saying that: -- Homes in Toronto are more hurricane-proof because fewer of them are destroyed than in Key West. OR -- Babies are better drivers than their parents, because their parents get in accidents every day. OR -- People in Greenland are less susceptible to cancer because fewer people die of it than do in the US. For years people thought Macs were less susceptible to viruses than their Windows counterparts... because? They never read about Mac hacks. The reality? There were way fewer Macs. Now? Still much less marketshare than Windows, but lots of Mac hacks/malware out there because they have more than doubled their market share in 6-8 years. Mainframe hardware / software is built by humans for humans (BHFH?) and will thus always have vulnerabilities and misconfigurations because we all make mistakes. Mainframe is decidedly just as hackable - by any definition of that word. Cheers, Chad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
