Mainframes secure 80% of corporate data and process 90% of credit card transactions, yet nearly 20% of businesses have no formal policies to protect them. With the global average breach cost hitting $4.88 million and regulators demanding the same real-time monitoring and automated reporting from mainframes as they do from cloud platforms, this disconnect has become one of the most dangerous compliance blind spots in enterprise IT.

Data breaches cost organizations $4.45 million per incident in 2024, with many stemming from unsecure FTP protocols that transmit sensitive data in plain text. VitalSigns for Secure Transfer (VST) eliminates FTP vulnerabilities without requiring changes to JCL, batch jobs, or application code—delivering enterprise-grade encryption and compliance while your teams continue using familiar processes.

Organizations face mounting pressure to reduce IT costs, yet mainframes remain essential for processing critical workloads in finance, insurance, retail, and government. By consolidating monitoring tools, optimizing workloads to reduce CPU peaks, strengthening security with encrypted transfers, modernizing application access beyond terminal emulators, and implementing real-time performance analytics, enterprises can dramatically cut costs while extending the value of their mainframe investments, no costly rip-and-replace required.