Guide
A Single Pane of Glass for Multi-Platform Systems Management
Bring disparate systems, platforms, devices, and applications together in one place and on one screen to make systems management easier and create a consistent and common methodology to varying departments within the IT infrastructure. Combining Halcyon’s Enterprise Console, Operations Center Suite, and Network Server Suite can provide a single pane of glass for managing your IT environment. See how here.
Guide
5th Annual IBM AIX Community Survey Findings
The AIX Community Survey, now in its fifth consecutive year, goes in-depth with IT teams to gain a unique perspective into how this platform is being used today and how teams envision using it in the future. Over the years, the respondents of the survey have expanded to include a variety of industries, geographies, and titles within IT.
More than 100 IT professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC participated in this year’s survey, and this input enables all of us to understand the role of AIX with new clarity.
Guide
Integrating IBM i Security Events into Your SIEM
This guide discusses the technical issues relevant to logging IBM i security data and offers a solution for real-time awareness of security events and integration with SIEM solutions.
Case Study
Alaska Communications Reaches New Heights with Network Monitoring from Intermapper
Alaska Communications is an internet service provider (ISP) supporting communications infrastructure in Alaska. Their team provides critical network services to customers—oftentimes, in remote locations. The company was in the midst of developing plans for a new site—one which was located on a mountaintop. With this remote site, they knew they were in for an uphill battle regarding maintenance and...
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Download "CIO Confidential: 5 Things Your IBM i Security Administrator Should Tell You"
Employees on the front lines often possess insight that manager, directors, and executives lack.
Corporate leaders rely on feedback from these professionals, especially when it comes to emerging security threat. But for a variety of reasons, systems administrators might be reluctant to to speak up about critical issues related to IBM i, including the importance of consistently updating...
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Download "How to Securely Deploy Access Client Solutions (ACS) for IBM i"
IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) is the newest member of the IBM i Access family, replacing the IBM i Access for Windows client.
ACS runs on most operating systems supporting Java. Because ACS uses different technology and deployment approach than IBM i Access for Windows, the considerations for securely deploying ACS are different than IBM i Access for Windows.
Some of the...
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Download "The Complete Guide to Securing IBM i Exit Points"
Exit points and exit programs aren’t new concepts, but we get more questions about them than any other topic related to IBM i security. Most people who work with IBM i have heard of them but aren’t sure if they need to use them.
This guide is designed to equip IBM i pros with information about what exit points are and how exit programs work, along with their...
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Download "IBM i Security and Integrity Monitoring Handbook"
Data breaches increase in number and severity every year. Putting barriers in place to stop attackers is an important part of any data protection plan, but barriers alone aren’t enough.
Today’s top IT profressionals know that verifying the effectiveness of cybersecurity controls is critical. After all, most breaches go months before they’re discovered.
Monitoring your security and regularly...
Case Study
How Peoples Telephone Reboots Equipment Instantly with Network Monitoring & Automation
What if you could reduce an eight-hour outage… to no time at all?
That’s exactly what Peoples Telephone Cooperative did. Faced with sudden equipment failures, they started monitoring their network… then went one step further to automatically fix the outages. Now this savvy telecommunications service provider saves countless man hours, makes sure technicians get a full night’s sleep every night,...
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Download "IBM i Encryption: How to Protect Your Database"
Learn your options for encrypting IBM i data.
Sensitive information needs to be kept secret. That’s an indisputable fact for modern organizations, where sensitive information can include customers’ personally identifiable information, customer lists, and intellectual property.
Encryption is widely recognized as the most effective way to ensure private information...
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Download "File Integrity Monitoring for Power Systems Running IBM i"
Data breaches have increased dramatically in the past 10 years. In response, numerous regulatory standards have been created, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
These standards require organizations to adopt security best practices. One key best practice is file integrity monitoring (FIM): making sure any changes made to server configurations and critical application data are...
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Download "Secure Inside and Out: Maximizing Intrusion Detection and Prevention on IBM i"
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.
Download this guide...
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Download the "State of IBM i Security Study"
Real-World Insight into IBM i Security
The 2024 State of IBM i Security Study provides exclusive insight into the tools and strategies organizations are using to secure IBM i—and where systems are often left vulnerable.
This year's study analyzes settings on 148 IBM i server partitions, providing real-world information about how organizations around the world...
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6 Ways to Calculate Returns from your Network Monitoring Investment
How do you calculate the return on investment (ROI) of a network monitoring software? Learn the problems a network monitoring solution can solve and how to easily calculate its ROI.
Guide
Powertech Password Self Help for IBM i: Self-Service Password Reset
Resetting disabled passwords is an inevitable activity. Read this guide to find out you can reduce password management costs and increase efficiency with an easy-to-use tool that allows IBM i users to reset their own passwords.
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The Business Case for Focusing on IBM i Security: Close Security Gaps to Avoid a Data Breach
The cost of a data breach can throw businesses into turmoil and derail careers. And that cost continues to rise.
The potential for significant damage is massive on servers like IBM's Power Systems servers running IBM i, because they’re widely used for database management, financial data processing, and business intelligence—all mission-critical applications and workloads.
While servers running...
Case Study
Hershey Entertainment Quickly Encrypts Credit Card Data with Powertech Encryption for IBM i
Hershey Entertainment & Resorts is a privately held company located in the tourist center of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and has entertainment, resort and commercial divisions. Earlier this year, Hershey learned that because the entertainment and resort operations accept credit cards for payment, they needed the information stored by their box office ticketing and reservations applications to be...
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...