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 <lenni...@rsmpartners.com> To: IBM-MAIN <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> 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 <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Filip Palian Sent: 13 August 2019 02:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 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 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
