Security and compliance adherence has elevated in criticality over the past few years and has now taken its rightful place as a primary IT initiative, alongside virtualization and disaster preparedness. The necessity for better data protection has landed front-and-center in the public eye following some of the largest data breaches on record.

IBM i security expert Robin Tatam covers the new security functionality added to IBM i 7.2

IBM i has had superior built-in security features from the beginning. However, as internetworking increases and open protocols and servers become the norm, additional protection is needed.

Barely a day passes without new headlines reporting another cyber attack, policy violation, or data breach. Secretly, we breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else, but most of us know that we’ll all eventually feel the impact in some capacity.