Securing the Mainframe

Security consultants tend to specialise fairly early in their careers, and one of the areas I chose to specialise in, and something that Digital Interruption offers our clients, is mainframe security assessments. For many of us, unless you’re over a certain age, or have a strange fixation on weird machines, you’ll likely have never interacted with a mainframe before. There are a few popular (and contradictory) myths in the infosec community about mainframes: They’re legacy They’re the same as supercomputers Nothing a cluster of cloud computers can’t beat Nobody uses […]