Ultimate security: Protecting critical business assets with System z
Security is designed into System z – it is not an added on feature. System z' s rich set of built-in security capabilities can help you simplify and improve a complex set of operational security processes. System z is designed for the highest level of security for commercial grade platforms. Businesses that embrace System z can take advantage of:
- Consistent policy based user authentication, access control, audit and management
- Protecting critical data with high-speed encryption and centralised key management
- Creating a secure foundation for enterprise cloud and consolidated workloads
- Strengthened compliance and audit responsiveness to evolving regulations
- Reduced operation risk with early detection of application and network vulnerabilities
IBM zEnterprise security solutions
IBM Enterprise Key Management Foundation
Provides a streamlined, efficient and secure key management operations solution on System z that enables compliance with payment and financial industry requirements.
Insights from the 2012 IBM Chief Information Officer Security Assesment (PDF, 1.4MB)
IBM Centre for Applied Insights obtained a global snapshot of security leaders' strategies and approaches by conducting interviews with 138 security leaders
What's best for your business? (US)
Compare virtualisation alternatives: Get the most out of your IT investment with z/VM
Linux consolidation (US)
Consolidating your workloads on IBM System z can help lower your IT costs
IDC white paper
Learn how you can centralise more servers, workloads, applications and data on IBM System z
The value of IBM zEnterprise
Edison Group: The value of IBM zEnterprise for Deploying Heterogeneous Private Clouds
Case studies
Itaú Unibanco simplifies and strengthens security with zSecure
The largest private institution in Brazil, Itaú Unibanco was looking for new ways to make its operations faster and safer
Outtasking gives BADER control and security for the future
Mail order specialist relies on the latest technology and professional system management from IBM
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zEnterprise security white papers
Consolidating Security across platforms with IBM System z (PDF, 1.53MB)
Organisations that rely on mainframes to run critical applications should consider using the mainframe as an enterprise security hub.
Technical Information
- IBM X-Force Threat Reports (US)
- Security for IBM zEnterprise EC12 (US)
- The IBM System z Security Portal (US)
- Redbook: Security on the Mainframe
- Redbook: IBM System Storage Tape Encryption Solutions
- z/OS Security Related Redbooks
Related links
- System z security integrity (US)
- System z security solutions (US)
- System z security resources (US)
- Security zSecure Suite (US)
- Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) (US)
- Distributed Key Management System (DKMS) (US)
- Data Encryption (US)
- Encryption Facility for z/OS (US)
- IBM Data Encryption for IBM and DB2 Databases (US)
- IBM z/OS Security (US)
- IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager for z/OS (US)
- InfoSphere Guardium Data Security (US)
