<duplicate post in plain text as opposed to prior post which was html> Pointers to some information from IBM on this topic...
https://securityintelligence.com/ is an IBM site that provides security related insight & analysis and provides valuable information regarding Ransomware, including WannaCry. https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/security_integrity.html provides an overview of z Systems Security and is intended to help you stay current with security and system integrity fixes by providing current patch data and associated Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) ratings for new APARs. Security Notices are also provided to address highly publicized security concerns. This link also includes the IBM z/OS System Integrity Statement, a portion of which states "IBM’s long-term commitment to System Integrity is unique in the industry, and forms the basis of z/OS’ industry leadership in system security. z/OS is designed to help you protect your system, data, transactions, and applications from accidental or malicious modification. This is one of the many reasons IBM z Systems remains the industry’s premier data server for mission-critical workloads." In addition to preventing Ransomware, enterprises need to protect data from being stolen. IBM issued a Statement of Direction in the Announcement letter IBM United States Software Announcement 216-392, dated October 4, 2016, communicating "IBM plans to deliver application transparent, policy-controlled dataset encryption in IBM z/OS®. IBM DB2® for z/OS and IBM Information Management System (IMS™) intend to exploit z/OS dataset encryption." When recovering from an accidental or malicious data destruction event, z/OS DB2 provides the RESTORE SYSTEM utility that recovers a DB2 instance to a specific point in time before the data was destroyed. Additionally, IBM is gathering client feedback regarding extending this functionality to an entire enterprise. Glenn Wilcock DFSMS Architect ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
