Click on the button below to reach the list of z Exchange Presenters, their presentations and, if available, links to their slide decks and recordings:
If you encounter any problems with the list, please contact us at info@newera.com.
Check out Superheroes of The z Exchange
Barry Schrager
Cheryl Watson
Mark Nelson
Bob Rogers
and other White Papers:
The History of SMF - Barry Merrill
compiled an amazing history of SMF
Iron Giant
Q&A with the Father of Mainframe Security - Barry Schrager by Scott Berinato - CSO Online
NEW!
Auditing z/OS to Generally Accepted Security Practices (Version 1)
Julie Bergh has shared her knowledge and has produced the first version of a document on Generally Accepted Security Practices (GASP).
Download this eBook and share your comments and thoughts.
Check out these eBooks here.
Crypto on Z
NIST SP 800-207
Are Your Ports Safe?
Securing z/OSMF
Taming RACF - SETROPTS
Mastering CA ACF2 - GSO
Controlling CA Top Secret
What's New in z/OS V2R4
Auditing CICS - A Beginner's Guide
CICS Best Practices
CICS Alphabet Soup
Mainframerz - A UK-based User Group
Mainframerz is a meetup event for all of the mainframe community by the mainframe community.
Each event is themed around a topic and has a number of lightning talks given in a live event broadcast online, each speaker is no longer than 15 minutes and during the session, there is a chat session available for all attendees and the option to have a Q&A with each speaker at the event after their talk.
The newsletter is sent out to accompany the event by Andy McCandless.
Check them out HERE.
New York & Tampa RACF User Group
Meetings are online.
Contact Joel Tilton
In August 2020, NIST published NIST Special Publication 800-207. Its abstract reads, in part, "Zero trust is the term for an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network-based perimeters to focus on users, assets and resources."
Download a copy HERE.
White House Publishes Federal Zero Trust Strategy
The White House in March 2022 released its federal zero trust strategy, requiring agencies to meet certain cybersecurity standards and objectives by the end of fiscal year 2024. The strategy builds upon the executive order signed by President Joe Biden in May 2021 to improve the United States’ cyber defenses. The executive order was signed in response to the SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline and other significant attacks carried out by foreign threat actors. When a zero trust model is implemented, no user, system, network or service operating inside or outside the security perimeter is trusted, and every access attempt is verified.
Check the z Exchange Calendar for this month's Zero Trust webcasts.
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