Mainframe Security

[James.McGovern at thehartford.com (McGovern, James F (HTSC, IT))]

 I was thinking that there is an opportunity for us otherwise lazy
enterprisey types to do our part in order to promote secure coding in an
open source way. Small vendors tend to be filled with lots of folks that
know C, Java and .NET but may not have anyone who knows COBOL.
Minimally, they probably won't have access to a mainframe or a large
code base. 

Being an individual who is savage about being open and participating in
a community, I would like to figure out why my particular call to action
is. What questions should I be asking myself regarding our mainframe,
how to exploit, etc so that I can make this type of knowledge open
source such that all the static analysis tools can start to incorporate?


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