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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Mainframe security carries a persistent myth: that the platform is secure by default. Philip Young, Director of Mainframe Penetration Testing at NetSPI, joins Daniel Newman and Greg Lotko on The Main Scoop to explain why integration layers, not the mainframe core, tend to introduce the most risk, and what enterprise leaders need to challenge about their own assumptions on trust.