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New Encryption Facility for z/OS Introducing a new host based software solution designed to help businesses protect data from loss and inadvertent or deliberate compromise.

IBM System z9 109 delivers new security capabilities! IBM System z9 technology is designed to help protect your environment from security breaches. This design is planned to be extended to help protect data shared externally with partners, suppliers and customers through enhanced encryption capabilities¹. User privacy and information traveling across the network are protected, too. More than just server availability, resilient computing is designed to provide high levels of application and data availability.

Identrus Compliant (US) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services (US), provided by IBM's premiere operating system, z/OS V1 R5, has achieved Identrus compliance. The Identrus Compliant program certifies that PKI Services, provided by z/OS V1 R5, meets Identrus specifications and interoperability requirements providing a solid foundation for trust between financial institutions and their customers.

The job of every security system is to connect users to the system resources to which they are authorised. Simultaneously, the IT infrastructure must manage resources and users so that access to programs and data is protected and intrusion is detected across the entire enterprise. The challenge is to manage and maintain a consistent security strategy to allow resource protection without negatively impacting productivity.

The IBM security strategy
zSeries working with key ISVs offers a comprehensive set of support elements that can address a wide range of security issues. By providing the ability to monitor and manage security, these new capabilities help position zSeries as the central management point or epicentre for enterprise-wide security. From user identification and authentication, access control and auditing to distributed directory, networking security and security administration, zSeries hardware is designed to provide integrity, process isolation and cryptographic capability to help address your specific requirements and concerns. On top of this solid hardware foundation, zSeries operating systems implement various elements of security with the Security Server and Communication Server components while supporting customisation.

zSeries continues to extend the value of the mainframe by leveraging robust security solutions to help meet the needs of e-business today with an eye toward the future. zSeries servers have implemented leading-edge technologies such as high-performance cryptography, multilevel security, large-scale digital certificate authority and lifecycle management, improved Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) performance and advanced Resource Access Control Facility function. And with the addition of z/OS Intrusion Detection Services, zSeries has enhanced the system's ability to resist network-based attacks whilst embodying industry and international standards.

Customer success stories

	Brabant Water goes mainstream with SAP on IBM eServer zSeries Brabant Water deploys SAP on zSeries to drive down costs and drive up utilisation. Linux on zSeries provides the flexibility they require while the zSeries offers the security-rich, reliable and available platform they have come to depend on.
	Hungarian Railways on track for lower costs with Linux on IBM eServer zSeries MÀV Informatika considered implementing Linux on Intel-based servers rather than on zSeries, and concluded that the security and reliability of zSeries made for an unbeatable business case. Both the legacy and Linux solutions use IBM DB2 data management software, and MÀV Informatika has implemented DB2 data sharing across the partitions to ensure that all corporate information is consistent..
	Turning a vision into reality: Endress+Hauser InfoServe consolidates its SAP systems on IBM eServer zSeries To increase performance and scalability, reduce the total cost of ownership and improve data security, Endress+Hauser InfoServe chose to centralise their global SAP environment on an IBM eServer zSeries. Moving everything to the mainframe environment, with the SAP application servers running under Linux and database servers under z/OS has already. resulted in better SAP performance, better systems management , improved security and reduced costs.
	Smooth payments without the backlog ensured at Winterthur Insurance When Winterthur Insurance needed to reduce operational costs, modernize business process software without business disruption and prepare for international growth they chose an IBM eServer zSeries for its classic mainframe attributes: high security, reliability and availability.