The Immortal Retrofuturism of Mainframes and How to Keep Them Safe
Architecture, operational role, and defensive controls for securing modern enterprise mainframe environments supporting mission-critical banking.
Summary
The Modern Role of Mainframes
Mainframe technology remains the core compute backbone for global financial transactions, airline reservations, and critical enterprise infrastructure. Despite perceptions of being legacy hardware, modern mainframes process massive transaction volumes with extreme reliability and uptime.
Mainframe Architecture and Enterprise Topology
Understanding how mainframes integrate with modern cloud and distributed architectures is essential for securing critical business data paths. The session explores attack surfaces unique to mainframe environments and how they connect to outward-facing applications.
Defensive Strategies for Mainframe Environments
Securing mainframe systems requires specialized access controls, continuous integrity monitoring, and integrating mainframe telemetry into centralized security operations centers (SOCs).
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