Overview With the advent of a serious security breach at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) affecting over 22 million people, the federal government needs to enhance cybersecurity across its agencies. As part of a 30-day cy- bersecurity sprint, agencies were directed to further protect federal information, improve the resilience of their networks, immediately patch critical vulnerabilities, review and tightly limit the number of privileged users with access to au- thorized systems, and dramatically accelerate the use of strong authentication, especially for privileged users. Challenge This particular federal agency is heavily reliant on a mainframe infrastructure integrated with close to 20 mission-critical applications. Over 40,000 individuals will access the mainframe

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