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A Summer with CEM

By Carissa Lau
A Summer with CEM at Broadcom Hi! I’m Carissa Lau, a junior studying Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This summer, I was invited to work with the Compliance Event Manager team. Project Overview Compliance Event Manager (CEM) protects businesses from data breaches, threat actors, and failed security audits through continuous mainframe security monitoring. CEM alerts users instantly to critical changes and security breaches, enabling immediate response and risk mitigation. Fig. 1: CEM User Interface. As a long-time user of Zowe, the open-source API mediation layer, ...
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My Experience Returning To Broadcom Mainframe

By Sparsh Mathur
My Summer Experience With Broadcom Hi, I’m Sparsh Mathur, a senior studying computer science at Purdue University. This summer I had the opportunity to return to Broadcom’s Mainframe Division as a summer worker with the Precision SDK team. Given my insightful experience last summer working on automated visual regression testing, I was excited to return. Having just completed my junior year of college, I was eager to apply my expanded academic knowledge and contribute to the team with a fresh perspective. Addressing UI Framework Constraints As a summer worker with the Precision SDK team, I was tasked with evaluating our UI framework to improve ...
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My Second summer Experience at Broadcom

By Victor Taiwo
Returning to Broadcom was something I was really excited for. Working on challenging problems that impact a large organization motivates me as an engineer. Last summer, I worked on the Mainframe Technical Support team, where I spent most of my time working on a JavaScript extension for Chrome. This summer, I joined the Mainframe Cybersecurity and Compliance team, working on Top Secret for z/OS. It was a different environment from what I was used to - I’d only worked on RACF previously. Top Secret has its own rules and regulations that make it distinctive to work with, and every single word and acronym it uses has to be learned to understand why it was created. ...
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My Summer Working with Top Secret

By Antonio Ibarra
My Summer Working with Top Secret Introduction Hello! My name is Antonio, and I am an incoming senior at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Before starting my senior year, I was fortunate enough to complete the mainframe curriculum that NIU is renowned for in the community. Learning the different quirks, tools, and methods that are used while working on the mainframe was eye opening. After attending an IBM Z career connection event at NIU, one that Broadcom was a part of, I knew the mainframe was a whole different rabbit hole I wanted to explore and make a career out of. Being brought on to Broadcom MSD’s Cybersecurity and Compliance team,I ...
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Insane in the Mainframe

By Ethan Chastain
Summer at Broadcom’s Mainframe Division This summer, I had the privilege of working with one of the mainframe development teams at Broadcom as a Next-Gen Mainframer. As part of an engineering team, our primary responsibility was to diagnose software defects reported by our customers and to provide fixes and updates as necessary. Before this internship, I had no idea how integral the mainframe is to the tasks that we perform every day. I did not know that mainframe technology was behind most of the transactions that occur everywhere in the world. Included as part of my experience working alongside this incredible team was learning the basics of High-Level ...
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VMware vDefend Advances Multi-Layer Lateral Security, Deployment Automation and Performance for the Frontier AI Era

By Michelle Plato
New enhancements include a prescriptive workflow to accelerate Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) deployment, an on-premises Malware Prevention System, comprehensive air-gapped support, an AI Assistant for firewall operations, major performance gains for the Distributed Firewall and Intrusion Detection and Prevention Service (IDPS), and automated migration tooling. Earlier in May, VMware vDefend delivered Self-Service Lateral Security for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 , featuring support for unified lateral threat prevention for VMs and VKS workloads, high-performance threat prevention with IDPS Turbo Mode, and enhanced distributed firewall capabilities. ...
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Into the Mainframe We Go

By Carlos Hinojoza
TOP SECRET “SUPER HUSKIES “ About Me Hi! My name is Carlos Hinojoza. I’m currently in my last semester as a senior at Northern Illinois University and super excited for the future . The Mission During my Internship as a QA automations engineer for Top Secret, my team's mission was to refactor and migrate old legacy tests to update possible new test cases for TSS commands and get them ready for newer zCloud versions 3.00 and higher. Mainframe Learning The amount of mainframe experience that this internship has given me is priceless. I got the opportunity to learn to use JCL in a professional setting while learning to adapt tests ...
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My Summer Testing SYSVIEW for Db2 for z/OS at Broadcom

By Boris Rokhmanov
Hi! I’m Boris Rokhmanov, and I’m an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying computer science and math. This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to join Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division, specifically working with the Cimrman team at the Lisle, IL office. Throughout my time here, I gained valuable exposure into how real-world development challenges are handled, while getting opportunities to hone my technical skills and engage with industry standard tools. My Project Testing is an essential step of the software development process. It sits between the phases of writing code and deployment, and serves to catch bugs or ...
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Green Screens and Big Dreams

By Yash Saini
Introduction Hi everyone! My name is Yash Saini, and I’m a Computer Science graduate from Northern Illinois University (NIU). This summer, I returned to Broadcom for my second internship, joining the Mainframe Cybersecurity team working on Top Secret. During my previous internship, I worked with the Db2 team and helped to build a database management system. Switching from database management to mainframe cybersecurity was a complete 180, and gave me a fantastic opportunity to explore a totally different area of the business. What I Learned About the Mainframe Coming into this internship, I already had a solid foundation in mainframes, thanks to ...
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Supporting Support: My Summer in MSD

By Aarohan Joshi
Intro & Project Overview Hi, my name is Aarohan, and I am currently studying Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As I am taking a growing interest in AI engineering and solutions, joining the Mainframe Support team to add AI-powered functionalities as a part of the CMS Web Extension was a dream come true. Within just a few days of navigating the extension, meeting the team, and gathering feedback from support engineers on the current state and use cases of the extension, we got to work on implementing features that aligned with the support engineer feedback. By utilizing a large language model (LLM) we were ...
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Mainframe Software Summer Blog

By Arnav Thareja
I joined Broadcom this summer as a mainframe software engineering summer worker following my junior year of college at Purdue. As a computer engineering major, my coursework and projects revolved heavily around software development, but mainframe systems was a field I had yet to learn about. I joined having a strong interest in learning about this complex and critical technology. Bridging the Gap: Modernizing Mainframe Testing and Security While I arrived with a foundation in modern development, I quickly realized that the scale and complexity of mainframe architecture presented a steep but exciting learning curve. Coming in with a background in modern ...
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Building a Performance Evaluation Framework for MCP Servers

By Jeremiah Thomas
Introduction: Howdy, Mainframers! I’m Jeremiah Thomas, an incoming senior Computer Engineering major at Texas A&M. This summer, I had the privilege of interning with Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division under the DevOps value stream with the Code4z Assistant team to build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) performance evaluation framework. I had the opportunity to work alongside incredibly talented engineers on frontier technology that is driving AI models toward increasingly powerful enterprise capabilities. This project sharpened my skills in Python, Agile development, and systems architecture and let me dive deeper into MCP, network synchronization, ...
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Bringing Zero Trust Infrastructure to Mainframe Observability

By Carter Frank
Bringing Zero Trust Infrastructure Mainframe Observability During my second summer at Broadcom, I rejoined the AIOps value stream to continue contributing to a mainframe observability platform that helps enterprise users manage the health and performance of mainframe environments. While my previous project centered on internal application health and visibility, this summer’s challenge shifted toward network infrastructure and microservice security. The goal? To empower developers to focus purely on business logic while maintaining zero-trust security across microservices for customers. This project advances mainframe modernization by offloading mTLS ...
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Broadcom named a Leader in 2026 Omdia Universe: FinOps

By TJ March
Broadcom named a Leader in 2026 Omdia Universe: FinOps As the landscape of FinOps continues to evolve, the tools that customers need to manage their business need to evolve with them. From managing AI and Token Usage to optimizing resources and automating workflows, FinOps teams are asked to do more with less. Tools are expected to meet this demand. It’s imperative that teams pick a tool that can keep up with the demands on their team, as well as the evolution of the market. The CloudHealth team is happy to announce that Broadcom has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Omdia Universe: FinOps! Source - Omdia, Omdia Universe: FinOps, ...
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Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates July 2026

By TJ March
Fresh From the Labs: CloudHealth Product Updates July 2026 About the Author: Cathal Cleary - Product Leader, CloudHealth | Governing Board, FinOps Foundation While AI continues to dominate many conversations, and we continue to get great feedback on our AI and Tokenomics dashboard, we know that there remain many other FinOps problems to solve! This July, we are turning up the heat on cloud efficiency with highly requested updates designed to automate cost savings and streamline multi-cloud governance. Highlighting our brand-new Waste Identification and Elimination Workflow and deep drill-downs for Azure and GCP rightsizing, this release bridges ...
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The Test Automation Paradox: Why You Should Stop Writing Tests and Start Modeling Behavior

By Pamela Deason
The Test Automation Paradox: Why You Should Stop Writing Tests and Start Modeling Behavior Written by Pavel Sestak, Product Manager for Agile Requirements Designer Software testing is at a crossroads. AI tools have made generating tests so easy that the barrier to "creating a test" is effectively zero. But ask yourself: Does the traditional act of writing test cases actually matter anymore? In short, writing individual tests is an outdated practice. The true focus should be on defining expected behavior, which highlights the common mistake of testing the wrong elements. The "Why" Behind the Test What is the actual purpose of a test? It’s ...
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Defending Against "Copy Fail" (CVE-2026-31431)

By Justin Stanton
Defending Against "Copy Fail" (CVE-2026-31431) A Proactive Strategy with Symantec PAM SC By Peter Dulay, Security & Integration Adoption Advisor, Broadcom The Vulnerability: The "Copy Fail" Threat When a critical zero-day Linux kernel vulnerability like Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431)—a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) exploit—is disclosed, security teams face immense pressure. Immediate evaluation of defense-in-depth tools, such as Symantec Privileged Access Manager Server Control (PAM SC), becomes the highest priority. The core of the Copy Fail threat lies in a logic flaw within the Linux kernel's ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Patch Me OS Security Rollup and Office Security IntelliRollups for July, 2026(v2607.00)

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that rollups for July, 2026 are now available. The following rollups have been published: Rollups: CA - Patch Me - Security IntelliRollup v2607.00 CA - Office 32Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2607.00 CA - Office 64Bit - Security IntelliRollup v2607.00 These items will be available for acceptance in your Patch Manager GUI after the next successful run of the “Software Contents Download Job”. As of February 2026, Microsoft has fully discontinued Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server ...
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CA Client Automation - Patch Management - Published Windows OS and Office Security Individual Patches for July, 2026

By Sreekanth Chejarla
On behalf of CA Technologies, a Broadcom Company, we are pleased to notify you that individual patches for July, 2026 is now available. The following Individual patches have been published: 2026-07 Office - powerpoint2016-kb5002867-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - graph2016-kb5002830-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - vbe72016-kb5002273-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - oart2016-kb5002748-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - chart2016-kb5002857-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - mso2016-kb5002887-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - word2016-kb5002890-fullfile-x86-glb 2026-07 Office - ...
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Virtual Patching: Guarding Against a Tsunami of AI-discovered Exploits with vDefend and Avi

By Teddy Jewell
As the digital landscape enters the age of Artificial Intelligence, the traditional methods of securing applications are being fundamentally challenged. The emergence of advanced AI models has shifted the advantage towards attackers. With AI, even a novice attacker is now weaponized into a sophisticated hacker while operating semi-autonomously at very low cost, and unprecedented scale. Imagine the massive damage that ransomware gangs and/or nation-state actors could do with these cyber weapons. In recent times, ransomware attacks have led to business operations going offline for weeks and months, resulting in financial losses in hundreds of millions of dollars. ...
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