Rocket Software & KRI: Expanding Mainframe Security Capabilities
March 1, 2023
According to research, 85% of professional security decision-makers say mainframe security is a significant priority for their company. Still, the same study revealed that only 33% of respondents always or often factor security into their mainframe decisions. Considering the wealth of sensitive and essential data mainframes hold, this complacency can put IT infrastructure at significant risk. While leadership understands the importance of mainframe security to business success, regulatory compliance, and customer relationships, more organizations must prioritize protecting their mainframe.
With the growing complexities of mainframe and data compliance, there is an urgent need for mission-critical businesses operating in mainframe environments to ensure their systems are secure and operating within a robust and agile security architecture. On February 28, 2023, Rocket Software announced its acquisition of Key Resources, Inc. (KRI) to strengthen the company’s mainframe security capabilities and enable customers to address their mainframe infrastructure needs in the most comprehensive and holistic way.
KRI is a leader in mainframe security and vulnerability identification and assessment with over 30 years of proven reliability and success. The combination of Rocket Software’s mainframe expertise and KRI’s robust portfolio of security products empowers Rocket Software customers, giving them access to comprehensive mainframe solutions spanning data, monitoring, automation, storage, and security.
With the acquisition of KRI, Rocket Software can provide customers with even more tools and mainframe security capabilities to ensure they meet security and compliance goals—even as workloads span beyond the on-prem mainframe environment to linkages with public clouds. Helping customers avoid costly and disruptive rip-and-replace modernization projects that hinder workflows and wastes highly functioning mainframe assets is at the core of each of Rocket Software’s strategic decisions.
KRI has long provided mainframe security services to organizations through its principles of integrity, accountability, and communications. With a shared vision and alignment of principles, the acquisition of KRI is yet another step forward in Rocket Software’s mission to help its clients achieve mainframe modernization without disruption.
For more information on Rocket Software’s suite of tools to protect the mainframe, click here.
