Mainframe security and disaster recovery

MUST READ Disaster recovery on the mainframe: New options for site recovery TIP - Disaster recovery on the mainframe now includes software and hardware support for data recovery options such as redundancy and failover. Mainframe shops scramble to encrypt tapes ARTICLE - Laws across the country are prompting users to start encrypting mainframe backups, but getting tape encryption products to work with primary storage is causing headaches. Mainframe security changes as Web services arrive TIP - Stretching mainframe security to cover Web services can cause serious problems -- but it also offers significant opportunities to improve security as a whole. Mainframers need to focus on process not piecemeal disaster recovery TIP - Recent disasters have forced IT managers to consider new aspects of recovery and business resilience, one of SHARE's focuses for '07; some of these questions are discussed here.

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	Legacy protocol puts IBM mainframes at risk SearchSecurity.com | 29 Aug 2006 ARTICLE - The millions of daily transactions processed by IBM mainframes could be at risk, one security researcher says, because of a weakness in a venerable networking protocol.

	Mainframe shops scramble to encrypt tapes SearchStorage.com | 13 Jun 2006 ARTICLE - Laws across the country are prompting users to start encrypting mainframe backups, but getting tape encryption products to work with primary storage is causing headaches.

	CA updates mainframe security products SearchDataCenter.com | 07 Jun 2006 ARTICLE - CA has released new versions of ACF-2, TopSecret and Cleanup, its identity and access management software.

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	Mainframe vulnerabilities: Be proactive rather than reactive 30 Jun 2008 TIP - What mainframe administrators really need is a discussion of mainframe vulnerabilities. Problem areas include user authentication, system dataset access, and disgruntled employees.

	Disaster recovery on the mainframe: New options for site recovery 06 Jun 2007 TIP - Disaster recovery on the mainframe now includes software and hardware support for data recovery options such as redundancy and failover.

	Mainframers need to focus on process not piecemeal disaster recovery 09 Feb 2007 TIP - Recent disasters have forced IT managers to consider new aspects of recovery and business resilience, one of SHARE's focuses for '07; some of these questions are discussed here.

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