The mainframe is mission essential to the modern business and remains the single most used switching point for regulated data in many enterprises, making it subject to constant scrutiny by regulators, auditors, and the media. Enterprises have taken advantage of encryption as both a means to better protect regulated and sensitive data on the mainframe, and to gain the benefit of ‘safe harbor’ from data breach regulations if such data is compromised.
Join Jeff Cherrington (cheje18), Mainframe Security Product Management, to learn more about the history of the mainframe, encryption, safe harbor, and how recent changes in the United States data breach disclosure laws and in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is eroding the utility of encryption’s safe harbor benefits.