Modern Mainframe Security Integration: Why PropelZ's Splunk Connector Beats Legacy Solutions

About this episode

This episode discusses how PropelZ's Splunk Connector provides superior mainframe security integration compared to legacy solutions.

Your security team monitors thousands of events per second across every system—except the one that processes your most sensitive data. VirtualZ CTO Vince Re reveals how PropelZ's modern Splunk Connector delivers out-of-the-box mainframe security integration that legacy solutions simply can't match, streaming SMF records, RACF logs, and console messages directly into existing SOC infrastructure without the complexity and limitations of traditional approaches. This episode shows how security operations centers are gaining comprehensive visibility using PropelZ's production-ready solution that works with existing Splunk deployments immediately—no custom development, no complex configuration, no specialized expertise required. What you'll discover: Why PropelZ's modern approach delivers real-time mainframe data integration while legacy solutions require batch processing and custom work Out-of-the-box capabilities: immediate Splunk API integration, structured data formatting, and unified timeline correlation Advanced threat detection scenarios enabled by PropelZ's modern architecture: privilege escalation monitoring, lateral movement analysis, data exfiltration alerts How PropelZ's…

People in this episode

Guest: Vince Re

Topics covered

• mainframe security
• data integration
• threat detection
• Splunk
• security operations
• machine learning

Keywords

• mainframe
• security
• Splunk Connector
• data integration
• threat detection
• RACF
• SMF records
• anomaly detection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PropelZ, VirtualZ, SOC, RACF

Products: Splunk Connector, Splunk

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