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Highly Secure API Enablement for IBM i

August 1, 2022 Daniel Magid

The explosive growth of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) over the past few years has dramatically transformed how business is conducted. APIs allow customers to increase revenue by leveraging new channels to reach their customers; they facilitate cost reduction by automating manual processes and raising an organization’s responsiveness. In many industries, the benefits of APIs are so compelling that it is already impossible to compete or participate in a business supply chain without supporting APIs.

However, opening up your core IBM i applications to API connections also carries risks. According to the Gartner Group, APIs are rapidly becoming the number one …
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Guru: IBM i Privileged Account Management, And What’s So Special About Special Authorities

August 1, 2022 Bruce Bading

Privileged Account Management (PAM) is a keystone of cybersecurity. Everywhere we look PAM is a hot topic. How and why should we worry about it? IBM, Ponemon, Verizon, etc., tell you that it is vitally important to protect your endpoints from cyberattacks and insider threats. While the Verizon DBIR states that external threats account for 80 percent of security incidents, it points out their findings that show otherwise for incidents resulting in data compromise where the insider threat exceeded that of an outsider by more than 10 to one. Simply put by Verizon, “This supports the principle that …
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How IBM i Fits Into a Zero-Trust Security Framework

July 19, 2021 Alex Woodie

One of the hot new trends in cybersecurity these days is the zero-trust security model. Instead of implicitly trusting network traffic behind the firewall, zero-trust demands that traffic have explicit permission to be there. But how does that model work with the strange beast known as IBM i? IT Jungle recently sat down with PJ Kirner, the CTO and co-founder of zero-trust software provider Illumio, to find out.

Illumio is an eight-year-old venture-backed startup based in Sunnyvale, California, that is working in the field of zero-trust security. It develops an offering, called Illumio Core, that allows companies to begin implementing …
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How IBM i Fits Into a Zero-Trust Security Framework

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