By Stuart McIrvine
May 25, 2021
Whatever normal looked like in March 2020, it sure doesn’t look like that now. Just about everything in our lives has changed, from how we educate our kids to how we work, travel, bank and buy groceries. It has pushed IT departments to create widespread changes in an incredibly short time, and nowhere is this pressure being felt more than in government IT shops.
Yet, even as local, state and federal agencies have heroically changed course to meet the needs of hundreds of millions of Americans who need services, how those agencies maintain data security must also be reimagined. With so much digital transformation taking place, hackers see plenty of opportunity to find and exploit weaknesses and they are bold; the recent breach of cybersecurity monolith SolarWinds shows that they are willing to take on major targets.
The "zero trust" model, in the context of mainframe security, might be different than you'd think. Stuart McIrvine of Broadcom separates myths from