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Distinguished Engineer - z Systems Security

Michael Jordan is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and has over 27 years of experience. This includes 23 years of development experience and 4 years in a client facing role leading complex and large scale z Systems projects. Michael’s expertise and passion are in the areas of z Systems Security, Cryptography, and Parallel Sysplex. He holds over 20 patents, and has been co-author for several journal articles related to his work.

Articles by Michael

The next step in homomorphic encryption for Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE

101 billion. That’s the number of data records compromised in 20201. This made 2020 a record-...

3 strategies for a holistic approach to cybersecurity

Staying ahead of cybersecurity threats is the top business challenge for executives according to IBM research.

Keep customer data secured, private and encrypted with the latest IBM Z enhancements

In my discussions with CIOs and CISOs in organizations around the globe, I’ve noticed a common ...

Address customer data privacy and protection concerns with encryption everywhere

Data privacy and protection remain top boardroom and C-suite issues. The data breach threat still ...

Is your smartphone data safer than your enterprise data?

More than eighty percent of smartphone data is encrypted, according to an IBM-sponsored Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. report upon which this blog post is based.[i] You might expect a similarly high percentage of enterprise data to be encrypted as well, ...