Bring Mainframes Into Your Security Posture

Mainframes still run your most critical workloads—but too often sit outside your security posture. Kontxtual Mainframe Security Posture Management (MSPM) integrates mainframe data into your broader DSPM strategy without rewriting code or disrupting core systems.

With continuous discovery, contextual intelligence, and remediation, Kontxtual MSPM transforms these legacy platforms into governed, audit-ready assets.

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Mainframe Gaps Create Enterprise Risk

Mainframes power core business operations, yet they often sit outside your modern security stack. Legacy tools can’t classify, track, or enforce policies consistently across these environments, putting compliance, audit readiness, and data posture at risk.

Kontxtual MSPM brings your mainframes into full alignment with enterprise security strategy—without disrupting uptime or requiring code changes.

Kontxtual MSPM: Real-Time Posture for Critical Systems

Kontxtual turns mainframes from isolated legacy assets into integrated, governed data sources. With continuous discovery, contextual intelligence, and orchestrated enforcement, Kontxtual MSPM gives you total visibility and control across VSAM, Db2, IMS, and QSAM—without disrupting operations.

Every scan updates a live, governed view of your most critical systems. Posture stays current, risks surface in context, and controls adapt in real time.

Step 1 - Discover with Context and Precision

Scan VSAM datasets, Db2 on Z, IMS, and flat files—no copybooks required. Sensitive data is identified with up to 98.6% accuracy and added to a unified enterprise inventory.

Step 2 - Prioritize What Matters

Kontxtual’s multidimensional data graph links each dataset to ownership, usage, business criticality, and policy exposure—enabling smart prioritization and faster decisions.

Step 3 — Enforce Policies Automatically

Apply access, retention, and residency policies across legacy and modern systems without code changes. Kontxtual integrates with IAM, SIEM, SOAR, and DLP to operationalize governance.

Immediate, Measurable Benefits of Kontxtual MSPM

When mainframe posture runs in real time—and in context—you shift from legacy guesswork to confident, continuous control.

Unified visibility → eliminate blind spots. Integrate mainframe data with cloud and on-prem systems for a single, contextual view of sensitive data across your enterprise.
Automated compliance → reduce audit fatigue. Enforce access, retention, and residency policies across hybrid systems with audit-ready tagging and reporting.
Risk-based prioritization → focus where it matters. Score datasets based on business value, sensitivity, and exposure so teams can target the highest-risk issues first.
Continuous posture monitoring → stay ahead of risk. Track encryption, access misuse, and policy alignment across legacy systems—without disrupting operations.
High-fidelity discovery → stronger defensibility. Scan VSAM, Db2Z, IMS, and flat files (without copybooks) to maintain a live, accurate inventory of sensitive data.
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Modernizing Mainframe Posture at Global Scale

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Fortune 100 Insurance Leader Accelerates Control Enforcement

Audit findings and NIST gaps; sensitive production data discovered in non-production environments; needed better integration with existing governance stack. Deployed Kontxtual to automate discovery, classification, and governance workflows, integrating with Guardium and Collibra.

The result: Achieved NIST compliance ahead of schedule and remediated non-production exposures, improving audit outcomes.

Key Integrations That Unify Mainframe Posture with Enterprise Controls

Kontxtual MSPM integrates directly with your existing tools to bring mainframe data into full visibility, governance, and policy enforcement—without disrupting operations or introducing overhead.

Automate audit-ready workflows with contextual tickets tied to sensitive data.

Stream real-time mainframe security posture insights into your SIEM for unified posture monitoring.

Extend classification and labeling into Microsoft ecosystems from a single control plane.

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Sync mainframe classification, lineage, and context into enterprise governance catalogs.

Go Beyond Mainframe Security Posture Management

Kontxtual connects the dots between legacy systems and modern environments. These use cases build on the foundation of Mainframe Security Posture Management (MSPM), giving you unified control, contextual intelligence, and consistent governance across your stack.

Enterprise DSPM

Kontxtual extends visibility from VSAM and Db2 to SaaS and cloud-native platforms. With a single contextual graph of sensitive data, you can track exposure, prioritize access risks, and evolve posture in real time.

Automated Governance

Apply rules for access, retention, and residency across mainframe and hybrid environments automatically. Kontxtual MSPM orchestrates enforcement with your IAM, DLP, and governance tools to reduce manual effort and maintain audit readiness.

Contextual Compliance

Kontxtual maps mainframe data to regulations like GDPR, CPRA, and HIPAA, enabling continuous monitoring and automated audit reporting. No more spreadsheet-driven processes or last-minute scrambles.

Don’t Let Legacy Hold Back Your Security Strategy

Mainframes aren’t a special case—they’re a critical part of your DSPM architecture. Kontxtual MSPM gives you the tools to govern legacy systems with the same agility, visibility, and precision as cloud-native data—no rewrites required.