Given that a healthy percentage of successful attacks involves insiders, there is no way that z/OS is immune to breaches. The best that can be said is that, properly administered, it is more secure than some other platforms.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 7:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel Don't get me wrong: I do believe that IBM mainframes belong at the top of the list for security capabilities. But it occurs to me that if they determined this by poll, then their results may be skewed by a) the belief, on the part of mainframers like me, that IBM is best, and b) a reluctance on the part of some corporations to report breaches even in polls that claim they're anonymous. That said, I'm a little surprised that IBM had "fastest mean time to detection (MTTD) from the onset of the attempted attack until the company isolated and shut it down". I know real-time reporting products are out there for mainframes, but I had the impression they're not used much. It's also interesting, given the size of the companies that use mainframes, that they also report "The least amount of monetary losses due to a successful security hack". Although see item b) above again. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! -Friedrich Nietzsche */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Mark Regan Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 16:40 https://secure-web.cisco.com/1JxdfsqHGjnUuRPmN2YNUOcWs_oODuUS43Hv9Kt5RRL9WJqsH4-fcqaxAXUsKZBF9zoWi22K6jgKVsMSVPfKlDoW0UfoK79vCd9b50dV2JBh9vI68wnxNs7IlnkymdAD8cyIP56U6bVR040KuFDUTTuIm5pJ-Df--mvQFXgIdElA0-JyZ-oaTwuV5H6T-3i1K_F5DTaJAl-B3_JifnuvpwG4jUx7XVsR5-xort_nGKKaysCiPyiHN5-RFCI82FqYnnvedHtDh3gukxo4ItD6HjpJa03Rb3BLbhb4TcscdsNUrTw7SkN15BCeem2_sCAEqp2x9meCeTgwhIUlAe2hust6LZz92uDc81LbxklmQbXf-yTlzFKn0LgmFtjRFDmvIXdZoAO5ywdpP84gAyTxS6JzKVRslOJU3wNPS_MzwRUNAqb_qR-fApdtTNIjp76XHmE6YTBvTCfHZWq09QjxB-w/https%3A%2F%2Ftechchannel.com%2FEnterprise%2F04%2F2022%2Fsecure-platforms-itic-survey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
