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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	Sun Chemical updates two data centers to handle SAP integration SearchDataCenter.com | 03 Sep 2009 ARTICLE - Merging dozens of little IT departments into an SAP infrastructure in two data centers posed challenges for Sun Chemical.

	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.

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	Improve CICS Web services security and handle Web transaction requests 04 Nov 2009 TIP - Mainframe managers can kill two birds with one stone by coding a message handler to check security and change the transaction ID in CICS.

	Coding a simple mainframe cryptography program 13 Oct 2009 TIP - How do you code a System z cryptography program? Mainframe expert Robert Crawford takes you through the process of using the Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility.

	Using cryptography on the mainframe: An amateur's guide 08 Sep 2009 TIP - Cryptography protects sensitive data and aids security regulation compliance. In this tip, learn the essentials of cryptographic software and hardware for the mainframe.

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