MainTegrity and Gartner Q2/2025 Briefings

MainTegrity Engages Gartner Analysts on Mainframe Cybersecurity and Data Exfiltration Defense

At MainTegrity, we’re committed to making the mainframe the most secure platform on earth. That means regularly engaging with thought leaders and industry analysts to validate our approach and share real-world lessons from today’s rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape.

In Q2 2025, our team had the opportunity to brief two senior Gartner analysts—one specializing in software engineering and the other in public cloud infrastructure. Both analysts bring deep security expertise and decades of familiarity with IBM z/OS, making them ideal partners for meaningful discussions about the state of mainframe protection.

During the briefings, MainTegrity CEO Al Saurette walked through a recent breach scenario in the healthcare sector. This real-world case underscored how MainTegrity Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) could have intercepted data exfiltration, suspended attackers in real time, and drastically reduced remediation costs that now exceed $2 billion.

Why Data Exfiltration Is the Battleground to Watch

While ransomware has dominated headlines for years, data theft has quietly become the most financially devastating attack vector. Unlike encryption-based attacks, data exfiltration compromises sensitive information instantly—creating compliance, reputational, and operational risks that can last for years.

That’s why our upcoming MainTegrity CSF v3.2 release is so timely. It introduces powerful new data theft defenses, including the ability to:

  • Detect and stop suspicious data transfers to unknown IP addresses
  • Halt excessive batch or TSO data movements
  • Flag tampering commands such as AMASPZAP
  • Provide instant user lockout when credentials are compromised

These features build on CSF’s proven ransomware prevention capabilities, making it the only end-to-end solution designed to stop ransomware attacks by detecting unauthorized changes while also addressing modern data exfiltration threats.

Analysts Are Watching Closely

The strong interest shown by Gartner’s analysts reinforces a broader trend: mainframe security is no longer a niche concern, but a core part of enterprise cyber resilience. Standards such as NIST CSF, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the new DORA requirements in Europe all demand capabilities that CSF now provides out of the box.

For Gartner research clients, the takeaway is simple: ask your analyst about MainTegrity CSF and how it compares with other security solutions in your stack.

You can read our briefing summary in the PDF here: Download the PDF

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