Syncsort Unveils MFA, Bolsters IBM i Security Suites

July 30, 2018 Alex Woodie

Syncsort last week unveiled new security and auditing capabilities for its IBM i user base, including a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution dubbed the Cilasoft Reinforced Authentication Manager for IBM i, as well as new releases of the Cilasoft and Enforcive security suites.

Developing and selling security software has become one of the focuses for Syncsort, the Pearl River, New York, company that previously concentrated on developing mainframe data integration solutions and extract, transfer, and load (ETL) technology for distributed Hadoop clusters.

Since it merged with IBM i high availability vendor Vision Solutions last year, Syncsort has acquired several …