It would nice to think that IBM could comment on their own platform with a little more authority and accuracy. After all System z income has sustained IBM over the last 25 years. Without the enormous annuity income from their System z customers IBM would have gone down the tubes years ago.
Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd Web: www.rsmpartners.com ‘Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.’ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Aled Hughes Sent: 13 August 2019 13:54 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Mainframes testing You and me both Lennie.... "Abby is a seasoned marketing and public relations professional." Reminds me that a journalist called Ruth Sunderland was on the radio the other day stating that the airline British Airways (after a failure) "is riddled with old systems that have been in place for many years and have become creaky and inefficient. Replacing them without major disruptions is a Herculean job." She even stated that 'mainframes' were to blame for the 2018 TSB fiasco. As someone recently said, "We have a dearth of experts commenting on the mainframe world, without knowing anything about mainframes." ALH -----Original Message----- From: Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:29 Subject: Re: Mainframes testing Filip, The IBM paper reads as if it has been written by someone with relatively little System z knowledge. " There can also be security flaws created during the set-up of permissions for libraries. Libraries are modules for coding. They call into the code and should only be accessed by people who have the highest level of permission." I am not even sure what the above means. Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd Web: www.rsmpartners.com ‘Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.’ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Filip Palian Sent: 13 August 2019 02:17 To: [email protected] Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Mainframes testing Hey List, This can be of interest to some: - https://securityintelligence.com/posts/top-five-security-focus-areas-for-mainframes/ - https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/A9NKZ8WE Any thoughts/comments? Thanks, Filip ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
