Breakthrough IBM Z Mainframe Promises to Stop Data Theft

Lifeinism
Lifeinism
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Since 2013, nearly 9 billion digital records, a third of which are medical in nature, have been compromised, according to data from IBM, and only 4 percent of the stolen data was encrypted.

Hackers infiltrate the mainframes of organizations and businesses looking for sensitive personal information like social security numbers, passwords, and credit card numbers to sell or use on the dark web. Thorough data encryption is the key to prevent such attacks or thefts, but too often encryption is not utilized or complete enough…


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