MQ Manager continuously and automatically monitors the seven key components of IBM MQ in order to ensure the flow of data is not disrupted, prevent costly downtime, free up IT resources and reduce operational cost.
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...
Five-nines availability only allows for about five minutes of downtime in an entire year. Monitor your HA solution so you can say with confidence your IBM i is 99.999% available.
Data leaks and operational disruptions can come from any source—internal or external.
To protect sensitive data from modern cyberthreats, all organizations need a robust intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS).
The IBM i operating system includes advanced capabilities for detecting and preventing external threats, but there are still gaps that must be filled.
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File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) helps ensure that your critical and sensitive data is viewed and changed only by authorized personnel through approved channels. Candidates for FIM include application files containing sensitive data, such as personnel or financial data, and server configuration files.
A denial-of-service attack is any attempt to interrupt or inflict downtime upon IT systems, but a basic DoS threat is smaller in scale than its DDoS counterpart. With the former, the influx of traffic may come from a single source, while in a DDoS attack, traffic comes from numerous sources – making it more difficult to deal with.
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.
As is often the case in the technology industry, the details surrounding security information and event management can be a little unclear. While vendors may offer solutions of varying complexity, there is still a basic idea behind most SIEM products…
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?
You don’t need to be reminded that your time is valuable. Redundant processes, fumbling between programs, struggling to set up and test time-sensitive apps all require time that you could be spending in much more productive ways.
In this session, we’ll show you how Abstract helps you eliminate busy work and streamline the development process. We’ll also explore how Anydate...
Your time is limited. You can’t spend it on redundant processes, fumbling between programs, or struggling to cross-reference your development environment. Your development staff could be spending their time being much more productive.
All development projects, large or small, require control:
Control of program changes
Control of developer time
Control of processes through...
See how the right development tools give you greater insight into your applications and help you deliver the level of productivity auditors and users expect.
If you're a system administrator, technician, or IT manager looking to reduce and simplify your multi-platform monitoring workload, this recorded webinar is for you.
It can be scary stepping out of your comfort zone to manage and take responsibility for new technologies, but it’s also exciting—and increasingly important.