Fewer than one in five IBM mainframe customers are using multi-factor authentication
Mainframe users cited concerns about disruption and end-user resistance as reasons not to employ MFA
Multi-factor authentication is a requirement of regulations like the GDPR and PCI DSS
Security teams regularly use multi-factor authentication to protect computing applications, but a survey has found that it is much less common among mainframe owners, despite its availability. In multi-factor...
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