A Comparison of Automated Sign-On Options for the Mainframe White Paper Host Access Management and Security Server (MSS) MSS Automated Sign-On for Mainframe Add-On1 www.microfocus.com Mainframe Security Needs to Catch Up The mighty mainframe is not a computing dinosaur. This powerful, high-volume machine still runs much of the corporate world’s most mission-critical applications. In other words, it’s not going away anytime soon. The problem is that many mainframe applications, some written decades ago, are hard-coded to handle weak case-insensitive passwords with just eight characters. That was fine back in the day, but not anymore. Today’s increasingly sophisticated security threats require something substantially stronger and easier to manage. Solutions do exist for moving be

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