Visit SDS at upcoming events!
SHARE Orlando
March 3-7, 2024
Rosen Centre Orlando (Grand C/D/E Hall, Level 1)
Orlando, FL
Booth #109 at the SHARE Technology Expo (STE) – March 4-6, 2024
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SHARE Atlanta
March 5-8, 2023
*Check out our SHARE Atlanta recap for news regarding this conference.
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InfoSec World
September 26-28, 2022
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SHARE Columbus
August 21-26, 2022
*View our SHARE Columbus recap that contains information related to the conference. Also, we’ve highlighted a few featured products from the show.
We attended:
SPARTA
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
LabCorp in RTP
Dinner at 6:15PM; Business meeting at 7:00PM; Presentation at 7:30PM
Presentation at SPARTA:
Security Solutions for the mainframe
Presenter: Colin van der Ross, Sr. Systems Engineer at SDS
- Migrate FTP to SFTP without batch JCL changes (30 mins)
FTP is a readily available, convenient, and inexpensive technology to transfer files and data sets between z/OS and a virtually unlimited number of other operating system platforms. This short presentation will cover the Pros and Cons of regular FTP and briefly discuss the many options available to customers to migrate off unsecured FTP. We will discuss the following topics in this session.
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- Why is FTP so Vulnerable?
- Options available to secure FTP
- Live Demo of a solution that makes it easy to migrate to SFTP without making any JCL changes
- Fill your Mainframe Security Monitoring Gap via SIEM & Custom, Granular Filtering (30 mins)
Is your shop making use of all the z/OS security event logs at your disposal? Perhaps the sheer quantity is too difficult to handle with your current processes?
Let VitalSigns SIEM Agent™ for z/OS (VSA) automate and simplify this task, sending the important security event records to any SIEM. By filtering out the noise and delivering only the important event records to your SIEM, there will be fewer false alarms and much lower costs than you’d expect.
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- Live demo of SMF events and console messages delivered to QRadar and Splunk
- Granular filtering
- Suggested SMF 80 events to monitor
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SHARE Fort Worth
February 23-28, 2020
*View our recap of SHARE Fort Worth that contains information and news related to the conference. Also, featured products from the show are highlighted. We had a number of great conversations centered around these z/OS solutions.
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SHARE Pittsburgh
August 4-9, 2019
*Want to know more? Read our SHARE Pittsburgh press releases. We are busy adding great new features to our mainframe security compliance software.
Hopefully you can stop by our booth and see if one of our solutions may be a fit for your organization.
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SHARE Phoenix
March 10-15, 2019
*View our recap of SHARE Phoenix that highlight the featured products from within the mainframe security compliance realm. We had a number of great conversations centered around these z/OS solutions.
Session at SHARE Phoenix that’ll be a nice ending to your week…
An educational presentation devoted to securing your z/OS file transfers:
Securing Your FTP Transmissions on z/OS
Presenter: Colin van der Ross, Sr. Systems Engineer at SDS
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FTP is a readily available, convenient, and inexpensive technology to transfer files and data sets between z/OS and a virtually unlimited number of other operating system platforms. This session will explore a wide range of aspects related to how FTP works on z/OS with a focus on how you can secure both the FTP environment itself and the individual data transfers that z/OS FTP participates in both as a client and as a server.
We will discuss the following topics:
- Why is FTP so Vulnerable?
- Know Which Problem You Need to Solve
- Options for Securing Data at Rest and in Transit
- Steps to Making FTP Compliant
- Encryption for Data At Rest and/or In Transit
*If you’re interested in securing mainframe file transfers and you haven’t seen it recently, be sure to watch our updated Peeling the SFTP Onion Tutorial.
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SHARE St. Louis
August 12-17, 2018
*View our recap of SHARE St. Louis, with our featured solutions (they were your favorites too!)
Important session at SHARE St. Louis…
An Enterprises’ Experience Utilizing Automated Performance Monitoring on Mainframe:
Read the ConicIT datasheet for additional product features.
DevOps: User Experience-Monitoring Requirements for the Volatile DevOps World
Presenter: Nick Calvaruso, performance engineer
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This presentation highlights an Enterprise’s use of an automated, expert mainframe performance monitoring system that proactively identifies existing and future mainframe issues through the performance data received from existing z/OS monitors. Then, the collected data is intelligently analyzed, which produces an extremely useful, first-fault warning whenever the expert monitoring system detects anything unexpected or if performance levels are negatively impacted. This automatic “early warning system” has the power to benefit organizations in many ways (including positive surprises), from decreasing costs/expenses to improving the entire process of identifying and fixing z/OS performance-related problems.
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SHARE Sacramento
March 11-16, 2018
Check out our impressive selection of product offerings and, of course, enter our drawings. SDS has several security products (e.g., our z/OS SIEM agent), other z/OS mainframe management software, and even a thin-client, browser-based 3270 Terminal Emulation solution, all highlighted by forward-thinking, feature-rich product development and award-winning SDS 24/7/365 Technical Support.
Previously…
SHARE Providence – August 6-11, 2017
2 Important sessions at SHARE Providence…
Ultra-Thin and Ultra-Secure: The Future of 3270 Client Workstations
Presenters: Dean Butler, Patrick Fournier, Franck Lerivrain, Jean-Pierre Vercruysse
In 2016, Fraikin – the European leader in Commercial Vehicle Fleet services – decided to get out of the mainframe client workstation business altogether by replacing the 1,500 Windows PC workstations used to access their mainframe applications with minimalist Chrome-based devices from which desktop and mainframe applications are accessed in the Cloud. Besides meeting its ambitious multimedia enabling and cost savings objectives, this Enterprise-wide Virtual Device Infrastructure (VDI) initiative resulted in the design of an ultra-thin and ultra-secure TE 3270 client workstation – one with drastically reduced and simplified support requirements, and with unparalleled mobility and flexibility. Come and see the future of 3270 TE client workstations.
Read the Fraikin Case Study to see the product in action.
Securing the Access to Host Assets From 3270 TE Clients
Presenter: Patrick Fournier
This presentation will introduce a different type of 3270 TE solution. One that brings back the simple centralized architecture of early years, to keep the control of access to host resources squarely on the host where it belongs. One that relies on standard web browsers rather than distributed applets or plugins, to eliminate the need to support distributed solution components, and more importantly to ELIMINATE THE SECURITY EXPOSURE created by distributed applets and plugins.
Product Webinar
Understanding Potential Savings with zIIP Offload and VitalSigns SIEM Agent for z/OS 4.3
This 30-minute webinar is available for you to watch right now. We’d love to hear from you with any questions you may have!
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