Security Vendors Take Aim at HITECH Act for Healthcare IT Overhaul
by Alex Woodie

While our representatives in Congress hash out healthcare reform, the executive branch of the government is already moving forward with aggressive new regulations aimed at ensuring the security of electronic medical health records and healthcare information systems. Whatever changes Washington imposes upon the healthcare industry, existing laws like the HITECH Act, a recently strengthened HIPAA, and the Red Flag Rules have put into motion a massive overhaul of healthcare IT systems--and the healthcare industry is woefully unprepared to deal with it. READ MORE >

Raz-Lee Adds Object-Level Security to i OS Security Suite
by Alex Woodie

Raz-Lee Security last week announced two new security modules for its i OS security suite. Native Object Security will allow i OS shops to implement object-level security on their systems without the hassle of manually configuring it through the operating system, while User Profile and System Value Replication will allow shops to easily replicate security settings across multiple servers or LPARs. The Israeli software company also made changes to other modules of its iSecurity suite, including its anti-virus software. READ MORE >

i365 Plans Multi-Platform Backup and Recovery Based on Windows Server
by Dan Burger

Next time you are sitting around 'blamestorming' about the various cans of worms that that the IT department has on its hands, toss out for discussion the idea of backup and recovery on multiple platforms. A single solution to a multiple-platform problem is a popular wish list item these days. But as we all know, if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. This may be a chance for you beggars to ride. READ MORE >

Data Masking Tool from dataguise to Get DB2/400 Support
by Alex Woodie

System i shops concerned about the unauthorized distribution of sensitive data may want to consider dgmasker 3.0 and dgdiscover 3.0, which were released last month by dataguise. The software enables organizations to locate sensitive data wherever it might reside across multiple production and development systems, and then programmatically 'mask' it so that it's illegible to humans. The vendor is very close to supporting IBM's DB2 database on System i servers and mainframes with the new version of dgmasker. READ MORE >