I'm hosting a free Webcast this Friday, October 28, at 11:00 AM Singapore Time on modernizing and securing mainframe networks. Sam Reynolds and Edward Seidl are presenting this week. Major topics include: (a) easy options to retire "raw" SNA (and pre-SNA) protocols that unfortunately only offer weak security at best, and (b) measuring your z/OS network security posture with the z/OS Encryption Readiness Tool (zERT), a no additional charge feature included with the base z/OS operating system.
As background, IBM has revealed that quite soon (with an upcoming release) you'll need to rely exclusively on Enterprise Extender (also part of z/OS) if you want to continue carrying SNA traffic across your network. "Last call," really, if you haven't retired "raw" SNA and pre-SNA yet. You'll then be able to secure your network properly and likely enjoy some performance benefits. The live Webcast time likely works best for those of you in New Zealand, India, and all time zones in between. However, it'll still be a fairly reasonable time Thursday evening on the U.S. West Coast (for example). If you can join live you'll have the opportunity to ask us questions, but I believe this Webcast will be recorded if you want to replay it at a more reasonable hour in your time zone. To sign up please visit: https://ibm.biz/apac-webinar-subscription — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
