On The Main Scoop, Vertali's Mark Wilson explains why AI-driven vulnerability discovery and looming post-quantum deadlines are forcing mainframe teams to rebuild their maintenance cycles. Teams that combine AI-assisted vigilance with security fundamentals and early cryptographic inventories will stay ahead of threat actors.

Chad Rikansrud, R&D Software Security Engineer at Broadcom, explains how frontier AI models are finding decades-old mainframe vulnerabilities in seconds, collapsing the complexity advantage that once protected legacy platforms. He outlines why enterprises need faster Security Intelligence (SECINT) ingestion and disciplined human oversight to keep pace with adversaries wielding the same tools.

AI keeps getting framed as the disruption that finally sidelines the mainframe. Tom McPherson, General Manager of IBM Z and LinuxONE, joins Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko on The Main Scoop to explain why the opposite is happening, and what platform-native modernization delivers that lift-and-shift migration can't.

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