IDUG NA 2025

Mainframe is often perceived as the most secure platform in the world. However, the reality is that it is as secure as you make it. A group of well–known mainframe hackers shared their experience and lessons learned from the field. Specifically, they publicly showed the most common attack vectors for the mainframe. In this presentation, we will review their findings and see how these techniques can apply to Db2 for z/OS.