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PCI Compliance Takeaways from the Target Data Breach

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
Smack in the middle of the holiday shopping season, Target was hit with a malware attack that infiltrated its point-of-sale systems and enabled the theft of credit card numbers and personally identifiable information from more than 70 million shoppers.
Compliance
Blog

What to Know about the New NIST Cybersecurity Framework

By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
Compiled with significant input from the private sector, the Cybersecurity Framework isn’t a prescriptive compliance document and instead gives companies significant leeway in how they use it to inform their security strategies. As a relatively new source of guidance, its implications for regulated industries aren’t clear yet.
Compliance
Article

What Can Intermapper Monitor?

By Kevin Jackson on Wed, 03/08/2017
What can Intermapper monitor? Just about anything. Learn how to monitor any device with an IP address, making your network visibility as comprehensive as possible.
Monitoring
Guide

Enterprise Monitoring Success

Thinner profit margins and higher customer expectations mean IT needs to up their game. Learn how enterprise monitoring can help and how to deploy a quality enterprise monitoring system successfully.
Monitoring
Blog

How DR Compliance Requirements Impact HA Decisions

By Tom Huntington on Wed, 03/01/2017
Disaster recovery requirements are part of the geographic and industry regulations that affect our organizations. Having the right solutions in place can help to avoid penalties and make audits go smoothly. Read on to create a complete compliance toolkit.
Automation
Compliance
Case Study

Field-level Encryption Helps Retail Chain Achieve PCI Compliance

Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores, a retail travel stop chain with over 210 locations in 34 U.S. states, processes approximately 200,000 credit card transactions on a daily basis. Needing to meet PCI standards, Love’s found in Powertech Encryption for IBM i a product to encrypt credit card numbers in a way that would satisfy PCI compliance auditors. “We need to be able to access credit card...
Compliance
IBM i Cybersecurity
On-Demand Webinar

An Introduction to PCI Compliance on IBM Power Systems

By Robin Tatam
Complying with the PCI standard is a normal part of doing business in today’s credit-centric world. But, PCI applies to multiple platforms. The challenge becomes how to map the general PCI requirements to a specific platform, such as IBM i. And, more importantly, how can you maintain—and prove—compliance?
Compliance
IBM i Cybersecurity
Blog

Network Monitoring for the Back-to-School Season

Wed, 02/22/2017
With the start of the school year upon us, IT administrators everywhere are preparing their networks for surges in traffic as students and teachers return. But what do they need to ensure a smooth transition from the slow summer months to the busy school year?
Monitoring
Article

What Makes the Good Morning Report So Good?

By Chuck Losinski on Mon, 01/30/2017
There is nothing like waking up to find the latest news delivered right to your doorstep, waiting for you on the printer, or sent to you electronically. For years, our customers have started their days reading the Good Morning report from Robot Schedule.
Automation
Monitoring