CASE STUDY A Tale of Two Worlds: Integrating Mainframe Scanning with a Global Bank’s Penetration Testers CHALLENGE • Shift mainframe vulnerability scanning tasks to the penetration testing team. • Educate penetration testers on mainframe language, scheduling and scanning. SOLUTIONS • Recruited systems programmers within the company to become in-house vulnerability scanning advocates. • Provided mainframe education to penetration testers. • Mainframe vulnerability reports provided in standardized CVSS scoring methodology. BENEFITS • Penetration testers now adept at mainframe vulnerability scanning, capable of analyzing vulnerability reports, working with vendors to mitigate the vulnerabilities, and running automated checks • Mainframe operations team no longer respon

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