Pervasive Encryption – Keeping Data Secure

In more recent z/OS releases, IBM has added and extended facilities to encrypt all z/OS data, especially at-rest data, regardless of whether it resides on disk or tape. The DFSMS mechanisms to do this are actually fairly straightforward, embodied in the SMS data class keyabels and in RACF and ICSF.

There are other considerations when implementing widespread use of encryption, though, not least of which are the effects on compression, backup, and archiving, and when encryption should be required or bypassed.

View this on-demand webinar to explore pervasive encryption in z/OS, especially as it relates to storage management, and its processes, procedures, and pitfalls.