Your STIG posture changes daily. Your compliance should too.

Continuous, automated DISA STIG monitoring for z/OS. Close the gap between your last audit and your actual risk. Trusted by federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

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Why Continuous Monitoring, and Why Now

AI has changed the economics of attack. In late 2025, a state-sponsored group used AI to run most of a cyber intrusion on its own, from reconnaissance through data exfiltration, and the targets included financial institutions and government agencies. Independent government assessments report that the time between a vulnerability being disclosed and being exploited, already measured in days, will continue to shrink. On the mainframe, a STIG posture verified once a quarter is a snapshot of a system that has already changed.

Sources: Anthropic threat report, 2025; UK NCSC, Impact of AI on the Cyber Threat to 2027.

The real risk is the gap between audits

Point-in-time STIG reviews leave you blind between cycles. Configurations drift, new findings emerge, and severity levels change, so you can be exposed for weeks while believing you are compliant. Continuous monitoring is the control that closes that gap, and it is what modern frameworks expect. NIST defines it as Information Security Continuous Monitoring.

You cannot defend what you only check once a quarter.

Small findings do not stay small

On z/OS, risk compounds. A single low-severity finding is rarely the problem on its own. But slight over-permissioning, a weak audit setting, and a stale credential can chain into a full compromise. STIG methodology itself recognizes that aggregated lower-severity findings can raise effective severity. IronSphere surfaces the full, current picture continuously, so the combination is visible instead of buried across quarterly reports.

Why Choose IronSphere

Close the Awareness Gap

Continuous, automated monitoring keeps your STIG posture verified in real time, not once a quarter.

Built-In Compliance

NIST ISCM, RMF, DISA STIGs, FISMA, PCI DSS, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, 23 NYCRR 500, GDPR, and more.

Expert-Built Security

Created by mainframe penetration testers who understand real z/OS vulnerabilities.

Working with our Cyber Security Operations Center team, Ironsphere automated two manual configurations required by the DISA STIGs, and it sends email alerts whenever a scan completes with a severity change. It is a big win for productivity.

Financial Investment FirmSecurity Analyst

Achieving compliance manually is a tedious, complicated process that takes hours, and with regulations always changing, auditing becomes a nightmare. We achieved 0% risk levels within nine months of installing Ironsphere. It eliminates headaches, saves time and money, and reduces risk.

Commercial Insurance CompanyPrincipal Server Technology Specialist