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(1) These systems were built from the ground up with security in mind. (2) Mainframes are usually buried deep within an organisation behind many firewalls. I
by tony-allan 8y ago
(1) These systems were built from the ground up with security in mind.
(2) Mainframes are usually buried deep within an organisation behind many firewalls.
I would love to see a z/OS system at a Defcon conference. After all Windows and MacOS seem too easy these days.
Having said that, I found this... "Follow me on a journey where we p0wn one of the most secure platforms on earth." Quite a cool presentation (https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20presentations/DEFCON-25-Ayoul3-Dealing-the-Perfect-Hand-Shuffling-memory-blocks-on-zOS.pdf https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...) with a good mainframe intro.
IBM zEC13 technical specs:
• 10 TB of RAM
• 141 processors,5 GHz
• Dedicated processors for JAVA, XML and UNIX
• Cryptographic chips...