Businesses complacent about mainframe security

Although 85 percent of companies say mainframe security is a top priority, just 33 percent always or often make mainframe decisions based on security finds a new report. The study from mainframe vulnerability specialist Key Resources Inc, based on research by Forrester Consulting also finds 67 percent of respondents admit that only sometimes or rarely are they factoring security into mainframe decisions. Respondents' top mainframe priorities are cited as data breach prevention, compliance, risk management, IT cost reduction/optimization and application availability. But despite this desire for data breach prevention, scanning for OS vulnerabilities is consistently ranked as a low priority.… [Continue Reading]