How well are you keeping up with your data? A data warehouse might be able to help. Watch this webinar to learn if it’s time for you to implement a data warehouse.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) exists because of the steady increase in data breach events. A data breach can subject your organization to steep fines, litigation, and even criminal prosecution. And it opens innocent third parties to identify theft, which you may also be legally required to mitigate—at your own expense.
MFA protects you from the most common cause of a data breach: compromised...
PCI’s MFA requirements now apply to IBM i. You have two choices: purchase MFA software that’s designed for IBM i or write your own program to link your existing MFA solution to IBM i. What's the best option for your organization?
Many data breaches are attributed to user negligence in the form of weak or reused passwords. Watch this short video to learn how multi-factor authentication can neutralize these vulnerabilities.
Data access software is essential today to both technical users—like your IT team—and business users—like everyone else.
Query/400 has long been the go-to for IBM i data access. It’s been around for over 30 years, but the tool hasn’t advanced with changes in technology. That’s where modern data access tools like Sequel have the advantage.
But how do you really know which data access tool is...
Let’s face it, the amount of data that we have is only continuing to grow, which will become harder to manage and understand. Per IDC Research, 90 percent of data in the world today was created in the last two years, and in 2016, we entered the zettabyte era.
A huge challenge for everyone is finding the best way to convert all their data into meaningful information. But that can be tricky.
If...
Introduced by IBM to support TCP/IP services, a profile swap allows a job to change midstream and run under a different profile than the one that started it.
Bad data is common throughout many organizations—and the costs can be far-reaching. This white paper explores the common causes of inaccurate and incomplete business data, as well as how businesses can identify and mitigate these problems.
During an audit a few years ago, I revealed to the client’s security team that corporate payroll information on every employee, including the CEO, was being archived in an output queue (called PAYROLL) for weeks at a time. Due to poor configuration, this information was accessible to every employee.
There are several considerations with authority adoption. Each is important but can usually be accommodated. But what is the effect if the program owner has the same or less privileges than the user that called the program?