Rocket Software, a global technology leader in IT modernization, is introducing 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, according to Rocket Software. This enables leaders to modernize critical systems with greater confidence, without compromising security or governance.
“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, the company said.
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