With the long list of benefits provided by a virtualized, cloud-based environment, the question is not whether to move to the cloud, it’s how to do it while ensuring your critical data is protected. Mainframes have a strong history of being an extremely secure platform for virtual environments and workloads. In this paper, explore how to leverage the mainframe as a security hub for cloud computing environments with an approach that helps enable you to address common security concerns including:

• Control


• Migration


• Reliability


• Compliance


• And more