Rocket Software Launches Rocket^® z/Assurance^™, a Risk and Compliance Portfolio for IBM Z^® Environments

WALTHAM, Mass. – September 9, 2026 – Rocket Software, a global technology leader in IT modernization, today announced Rocket z/Assurance, a unified portfolio for managing risk and compliance across mission-critical IBM Z environments. Combining purpose-built capabilities with Rocket Software’s deep mainframe expertise, Rocket z/Assurance helps organizations identify vulnerability and security exposures, validate security controls, monitor compliance readiness, prioritize remediation and gain real-time visibility into risk. This enables leaders to modernize critical systems with greater confidence, without compromising security or governance.

For the 99% of enterprises operating hybrid environments that include mainframes, security controls alone are no longer enough. AI is accelerating the speed and scale at which vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploited, while increasingly interconnected environments create more paths for risk to reach critical systems. Leaders need evidence that current security controls are continuously effective. Researchscape, in a report commissioned by Rocket Software, found that only 24% of IT leaders are extremely confident in their organization’s ability to address mainframe vulnerabilities over the next year. As threats, compliance obligations and modernization requirements evolve, organizations need continuous visibility into where meaningful risk exists and evidence that protection of critical environments remains effective.

“Modernization decisions increasingly depend on an organization’s ability to understand and manage risk across its most critical systems,” said Phil Buckellew, President of Infrastructure Modernization at Rocket Software. “When leaders have clear visibility into where risk exists and confidence that their IBM Z environments remain protected, security becomes an enabler of innovation and modernization rather than a barrier to progress. It allows organizations to move faster, make informed decisions, and focus resources where they can have the greatest impact.”

Key Rocket z/Assurance portfolio capabilities include:

• Identify code-level and integrity exposures: Rocket^® z/Assure® Vulnerability Analysis Program identifies vulnerabilities and integrity exposures that traditional configuration scans may miss, helping teams reduce exploitable mainframe risk.
• Monitor emerging exposures continuously: Rocket^® z/Assure^® Continuous Vulnerability Monitor monitors emerging exposures as the IBM Z estate changes, helping teams shorten the period in which new risk may go undetected.
• Improve security patch visibility: Rocket^® z/Assure® Patch provides visibility into missing security patches and related exposure across critical IBM Z environments.
• Validate controls and strengthen compliance evidence: Rocket^® z/Assure^® Compliance automates security policy adherence and control validation to support audit readiness.
• Prepare for evolving cryptographic risk: Rocket^® z/Assure^® Quantum assesses cryptographic inventories and quantum-related exposure across z/OS^®, z/VM^®, and Linux^® on Z. 
   

Accelerate remediation and prioritization through AI-driven assistance: Expected agentic AI capabilities will help teams interpret findings, prioritize fixes and access plain-language remediation guidance, reducing the operational complexity of responding to emerging risks with agility.

Rocket z/Assurance helps organizations connect technical findings to business-relevant risk, strengthen evidence for security and compliance decisions, and prioritize remediation across critical IBM Z environments.

Rocket z/Assurance applies Rocket Software’s deep mainframe expertise to help organizations turn technical findings into business-relevant risk insight and prioritize action. As organizations evolve their IBM Z environments and adopt new technologies, this purpose-built approach helps ensure security and governance advance alongside modernization.

Learn more about Rocket z/Assurance and Rocket Software’s mainframe security and compliance capabilities at RocketSoftware.com. 

About Rocket Software 

Rocket Software is a global technology leader in modernization and a partner of choice that empowers the world's leading businesses on their IT and mainframe modernization journeys, spanning core systems to the cloud. Trusted by more than 13,500 customers and 850 partners, and with more than 3,000 global employees, Rocket Software enables customers to maximize their data, applications, and infrastructure to deliver critical services that power our modern world.

Rocket Software is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Rocket Software is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity. 

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