Protection Against Cyberattacks – Why IAM Is Essential for Public Authorities (DE)

The ECB is asking major financial institutions to respond to AI-enabled cyber threats with a concrete action plan by 31 October 2026. In essence, it’s asking how well you actually know the security posture of your RACF environment. In this article, we examine a few of the most important points in the ECB letter as they relate to mainframe security.

BITMARCK is the leading digitalization partner for Germany’s statutory health insurance providers and supplies central IT solutions to numerous health insurance funds. For BITMARCK, ANOW! Automate offered the ideal solution for modernizing workload automation without disrupting thousands of business-critical processes. BITMARCK and Beta Systems created a controlled path away from the legacy environment by combining a modern, future-ready platform with a carefully designed wave-based migration. Ultimately, ANOW! Automate allowed BITMARCK to reduce its migration risk, maintain operational continuity, and lay the foundation for future hybrid and cloud environments.

If you’re evaluating Control-M alternatives, you’re probably staring down a renewal with rising licensing costs, a support experience that hasn’t kept pace, or a job scheduler that can’t stretch across your hybrid and cloud estate anymore. This guide compares 7 of the strongest Control-M alternatives on the market so you can find the right fit for your enterprise IT environment, be it for enterprise automation or smaller-scale workflows.