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The Problem with Passwords
The Problem with Passwords Enhancing your mainframe security: password insecurity, data breaches, and multi-factor authentication White PaperTable of Contents 03 Introduction: Stronger by Design? 04 Scary Stuff: Password Insecurity 05 Risky Business: The Implications of Stolen Credentials 06 Solution: The Right Tools and Your Security Journey 07 Enhanced Mainframe Security: MFA 09 Next Steps 23 Introduction: Stronger by Design? Mainframe systems are built to be both reliable and scalable, more so than most other systems and endpoints. The problem is their security is often taken for granted. This should be of serious concern, given that around 80 percent of the world’s system-of-record data resides on mainframe systems, and more commercial transactions are processed on m