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  • Trinity Guard Gives PentaSafe Customers a Lifeline

    June 7, 2017 Alex Woodie

    IBM i shops that still use PentaSafe security and auditing tools will be glad to know that a company named Trinity Guard has emerged to continue developing and supporting the products. The Houston, Texas, company has already rewritten the flagship IBM i auditing tool to support the Authority Collection in IBM i 7.3, and major rewrites for two other PentaSafe products are in the works.

    Almost 15 years ago, NetIQ bought PentaSafe for $255 million in one of the first of many deals that would help consolidate the IBM i software market in the years to come. Save for a …

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  • State Of IBM i Security: Seven Areas That Demand Attention

    April 24, 2017 Alex Woodie

    The latest installment of the annual State of IBM i Security was released last week by HelpSystems, and the results were about what you would expect: most IBM i servers are basically wide open for abuse.

    In a webinar last week, HelpSystems director of security technologies Robin Tatam discussed the findings of the report, which was based on security assessments conducted on 332 systems during 2016. He broke the findings down into seven core areas that should be addressed, including system security levels; administrative privileges; passwords and user profiles; data and program permissions; network access and exit programs; audit trails; …

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  • Top 11 Ways to Protect Your IBM i from Insider Threats

    February 22, 2017 Alex Woodie

    Hackers get a lot of attention when it comes to cyber security, and for good reason: external cyber threats are growing in volume and sophistication. But one shouldn’t overlook the harm that insiders can—and do—wreak on companies on a daily basis. Security expert Carol Woodbury recently shared 11 ways IBM i pros can protect the server from the very real threat posed by insiders.

    Woodbury, who is the vice president of global security services at HelpSystems and formerly was IBM‘s chief security architect for the AS/400, says IBM i shops unknowingly leave themselves open to internal attacks through a …

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  • IBM i Trends, Concerns, And Observations

    January 23, 2017 Dan Burger

    There is far more going on in IBM i shops than many non-IBM i people would expect. And the truth of the matter is that some IBM i shops might be surprised to find out what other shops are up to. The IBM i Marketplace Survey is one of our windows into that world. And it’s just been compiled for the third consecutive year. We have been watching and reporting on this survey and the trends it identifies because it is one of the best finger-in-the-wind indicators of the directions IBM i shops are headed.

    There are more than a …

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