Hey, wait a minute.  It looks to me like they're comparing hardware boxes - but 
surely the OS is the important factor in security?  (Well, aside from careful 
administration.)

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From: Bob Bridges <[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 19:53

Don't get me wrong: I do believe that IBM mainframes belong at the top of the 
list for security capabilities.  But it occurs to me that if they determined 
this by poll, then their results may be skewed by a) the belief, on the part of 
mainframers like me, that IBM is best, and b) a reluctance on the part of some 
corporations to report breaches even in polls that claim they're anonymous.

That said, I'm a little surprised that IBM had "fastest mean time to detection 
(MTTD) from the onset of the attempted attack until the company isolated and 
shut it down".  I know real-time reporting products are out there for 
mainframes, but I had the impression they're not used much.

It's also interesting, given the size of the companies that use mainframes, 
that they also report "The least amount of monetary losses due to a successful 
security hack".  Although see item b) above again.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Mark Regan
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2022 16:40

https://techchannel.com/Enterprise/04/2022/secure-platforms-itic-survey 

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