Solution
Production mainframe environments require rigorous security and keeping up-to-date with fixes, a traditionally manual process and time-intensive. Generative AI offers a solution. By leveraging information in system management tools such as SMP/E, the AI can compare applied versus available security PTFs and quickly generate a list of necessary CVEs and vulnerabilities. This automation significantly reduces operational risk and manual effort.
Security teams need to query mainframe data and especially SMF audit records from time to time to understand better if there were access attempts to a certain resource, or failed login attempts, or maybe just to know what the different permissions are granted in a specific period of time. By connecting generative AI to mainframe data, security teams can query that data in natural language making their job easier to enforce regulation, security and auditing requirements set by their company.
Providing generative AI with real-time access to security audit records and system logs fundamentally transforms compliance reporting for enterprise security auditors. Instead of manually reviewing logs and generating static reports, auditors could use natural language queries to instantly verify security definitions, check access attempts to critical resources, and validate adherence to configuration baselines.
