Security as a Mainframe Migration Challenge

With props to this article this topic jumped up this morning as something to think about. AGAIN! z/OS has a built in security layer that does very detailed authorization checks on pretty much everything: files, programs, transactions, etc. Linux/BSD has some broad protections. Beyond that it is up to your applications where that kind of security is needed.

Symas did a RACF to LDAP authorization translation. That COULD turn OpenLDAP into a Policy Data Base under a Policy Decision Point program. Or it could be used that way by other applications with attack surfaces.

COBOLworx stands ready to help as you recompile over and start sorting out your long term Operational Strategy.