June 28, 2024 at 09:35AM
1touch.io has launched its mainframe security posture management (MSPM) product, utilizing contextual AI to enhance data discovery and classification accuracy. Mainframes, supporting majority of global IT workloads, face security challenges in hybrid cloud environments. MSPM offers comprehensive visibility and fast database scanning, integrating with mainframe data sources and supporting various data formats such as VSAM files and IBM Z’s Db2.
Based on the meeting notes, the key takeaways are:
1. 1touch.io has launched a mainframe security posture management (MSPM) product that utilizes contextual artificial intelligence (AI) for data discovery and classification across mainframe environments.
2. Mainframes continue to play a critical role in running the world’s production IT workloads, with 68% of the world’s workloads and 71% of Fortune 500 companies relying on them, particularly in industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government.
3. Mainframe security, including data security, compliance, and governance, is challenging when integrating mainframes into hybrid cloud environments. Addressing these challenges, 1touch.io has added comprehensive visibility across hybrid environments and fast database scanning to its MSPM product.
4. The MSPM product integrates with all mainframe data sources to monitor and analyze sensitive data continuously and combine it with other enterprise data to provide a single, accurate record for each mainframe data asset.
5. MSPM supports various mainframe data sources, including Virtual Storage Access Method files and IBM Z’s Db2, with plans to extend support to IBM Information Management System and flat files in the future.