By Aileen Wynne, Women in STEM Chairperson It started with a chat.  Four of us, conversing at a vendor stand reminiscing about earlier GSE conferences.  We were discussing our first experiences of the conference, how there used to be only…

GSE UK members and guests will be fundraising for LimbPower, the national organisation that supports amputees, individuals with limb difference and their families, at our 2023 conference. The charity was proposed by Sue Parsons, GSE UK Membership Secretary. “I became…

Midland Freewheelers, part of the National Association of Blood Bikes, is one of our two chosen charities for the 2023 GSE UK conference. ‘Helping the NHS to help you’, this registered charity provides a professional dedicated emergency delivery service for…

by Jamie Pease CISA, CISM, CDPSE, CISSP, CITP, MBCS, Chairman of the GSE UK Security Working Group The phrase ‘back to basics’ will resonate with some British people who were around in the 1990s. It was used by the government…

GSE UK Region’s three-day in-person conference from 1-3 November 2022 was bigger and better than ever: more learning, more discussing, more networking, and more socialising. “After such a challenging 2½ years, the GSE UK family finally came back together face-to-face,…

by Mark Wilson, GSE UK Region Manager GUIDE Share Europe (GSE) was formed in 1994 when GUIDE (Guidance of Users of Integrated Data-Processing Equipment) and the European branch of SHARE voted to merge into one organization dedicated to mainframe advocacy.…

Our first face-to-face Conference in three years, the 2022 GSE UK Conference taking place 1-3 November is expected to be the great success that we’ve come to expect from this event! The Conference theme of “Mainframes are MAD - Modern,…

Are we taking modern security on the modern mainframe seriously enough? I don’t think so. In part one of this blog, I explained how the mainframe was operating in silos from a security, governance and compliance perspective. This means the…

We are now well into 2022, a useful time to reflect on the last year and what this year has in store for GSE UK and its members, writes James Harper. By the start of 2021, we’d all become more…

Blog from Jamie Pease: Are we taking modern security on the modern mainframe seriously enough? I don’t think so. A while ago, I asked a mainframe shop why their identity management solution was hooked up to the majority of their platforms - except for the mainframe. I was told, “Oh, we heard there were scalability and reliability issues.” This was pure hearsay: nobody could tell me the source.

Last time, I quoted Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, his ‘This is not a pipe’ painting and his comment that ‘Perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves.’

In 1929, Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte painted ‘The Treachery of Images’ aka ‘This is not a pipe’. He said, ‘Perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves.’ Pipes were ubiquitous then, as smartphones are today.