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PowerSC: Your One-Stop Shop For Security On IBM i – And Beyond

September 21, 2026 Alex Woodie

Keeping on top of changing security threats is difficult, to say the least. It is even harder to map changing threats to changing configurations on your IBM i server. When your IT network also includes AIX and Linux systems, the difficulty gets multiplied. For these types of environments, IBM provides a tool called PowerSC.

When IBM launched PowerSC (which stands for security and compliance) as an IBM Lab Services product way back in 2010, it was primarily designed for setting up security configurations and running audits on AIX. That is not the case today, as the tool provides a plethora …
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IBM To Add Generative AI To QRadar

November 13, 2023 Alex Woodie

If you feel that cyber crooks are getting the upper hand, you’re not alone. Studies show cybercrime volume booming while security professionals struggle to connect the dots and keep up. One possible route forward was presented last week by IBM, which announced that it will add generative AI capabilities to its QRadar SIEM tool.

Security information and event management (SIEM) tools are the sharp end of the stick for security-loving organizations, as they are where the hard work of assembling security data from all of the various components in the modern IT stack (including IBM i) and then trying to …
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Immutable Copies Are Only As Good As Your Validation

May 23, 2022 Stan Wilkins

A system can always be replaced, but the files and objects that comprise the application and the data that makes it useful can fall victim to all sorts of decay, neglect, or abuse in a modern system. And that is why we did backups to tape subsystems, or even tape libraries and then virtual tape libraries based on disk drives for so many years. And for those who cannot afford to have downtime or lost data, the IBM i base has been fortunate to have some of the best high availability clustering ever invented.

With ransomware and malware attacks on …
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Trinity Guard Launches Third IBM i Product

March 27, 2019 Alex Woodie

Three is the magic number for Trinity Guard, the Houston, Texas-based security software company that just delivered its third security product for IBM i. TGDetect is a monitoring tool that alerts administrators of security issues, and also integrates with third-party SIEM solutions.

Trinity Guard was founded several years by two former Micro Focus employees, Tony Perera and Pauline Ayala, who trace their roots back to the Pentasafe and NetIQ days. Perera and Ayala left Micro Focus to develop IBM i security software at Trinity Guard. The company has been slowly rewriting the old Pentasafe products, starting with TGAudit.

TGAudit was …
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PowerSC: Your One-Stop Shop For Security On IBM i – And Beyond

IBM To Add Generative AI To QRadar

Immutable Copies Are Only As Good As Your Validation

Trinity Guard Launches Third IBM i Product

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