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Thursday 13 January 2011

Mainframe Security, PCI-DSS and other docs

Sorry, I've been busy with my other blog for a while, about System z (IBM mainframe) security, which if you missed the announcement is over here on IBM's developerworks.
I'm delighted to be able to tell Practically Secure: readers that I've written an article for respected mainframe magazine z/Journal, discussing mainframe security. While it's mostly about System z, the general concepts (including the paragraph entitled "Secure for Compliance, Don’t Comply for Security" will be of interest to all. Some of you may be familiar with the content if you've been reading me long enough.
z/Journal is here, and my article in the Dec/Jan issue can be read online in HTML format here.
For completeness, here are my earlier white papers written for Pirean.com (all rights reserved by them) covering mainframe compliance, and PCI-DSS.