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Managing Your IBM i Audit Data
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 08/01/2018
Let’s face it; system administration remains a largely thankless task. From scheduling jobs to balancing workloads to answering messages in QSYSOPR, administrators and operators work diligently behind the scenes to ensure that IBM i servers are available to run mission-critical applications.
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The Six Ws of Granular Access Control
Wed, 08/01/2018
This article takes a closer look at why granular access control is so effective by placing limitations on who can get into your organization’s system, where, when and how they can access it, and what they can do with it.
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Eight Steps Toward a Secure Hybrid Cloud Environment
Fri, 03/16/2018
Protect your data and your company from internal and external threats by ensuring that your security policies on-premises and in the cloud are aligned with this checklist.
Case Study
Large Health System Turns to Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) for Server Management & System Security
A leading not-for-profit health system in the United States, with multiple hospitals, rehabilitation centers, physician clinics, mental health facilities, independent living centers, and home health agencies, employs more than 9,000 individuals, including nearly 1,400 physicians. Collectively, the entities within the healthcare organization also maintain more than 1,500 licensed beds across the...
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Leading Global Manufacturing Company Streamlines Administration with Centralized Privileged User Management
Ability to automate ‘what and which’ authentication methods are utilized based on the access request also significantly improves administrator productivity.
Case Study
Top 5 Worldwide Bank Uses Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) for Privileged Access Management
Ensuring security and privacy are central to the continued success for one of the largest bank holding company in the United States. With over 13 million individuals and business customers, this full-service banking, brokerage, and investment company understands the importance of protecting customer information.
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With Public Cloud OS Instances Growing, Security Challenges Grow, Too
Tue, 03/13/2018
“Some cloud vendors tout that systems deployed within their framework require little or no administration: You create an image with the software and applications that you want it to provide services for, spin it up in a management console, and Voila! you have an entirely new system online; with minimal cost, no hassle, little work. However, even...
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Perspectives on the Changing Linux Ecosystem
Tue, 03/13/2018
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In the early 1990s the Open Software Foundation formed a committee to select and standardize a new Management Platform Toolset for and from the UNIX ecosystem. After much...
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What Really Matters in IBM i Monitoring?
By Paul Ratchford on Thu, 09/14/2017
Guard against degraded system performance, data loss, and downtime. Make sure you’re monitoring these 15 metrics on the IBM i operating system.
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Generate and Distribute Audit Reports Automatically
By Robin Tatam on Mon, 04/03/2017
Despite the server’s incredible security infrastructure, auditing remains primarily a thankless, manual chore. And, let’s face it, any task that’s thankless and manual probably won’t get done.
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How To Maintain Your Data Integrity
By Robin Tatam on Tue, 03/21/2017
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.
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Sudo or SuDon't: Manage Your Privileged Command Execution and Sudo Policies
Mon, 03/13/2017
System admins need root level authority at all times, system operations staff needs periodic database and application account authority, and security admins needing to protect the environment are some of the few of the challenges of managing privilege in the enterprise server infrastructure. Read this article to learn more about Sudo alternatives.
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Managing IT Access Privileges
Mon, 03/13/2017
THE UNSOLVED PROBLEM
Secure, private, effective use of computers by a company (including hosted, cloud and other services as well as the company’s own systems) relies on managing access privileges.
The problem isn’t unique to computers. Office buildings, hotels, apartments and college dorms, for example, typically have “master keys” (or smart ID...
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Solving Healthcare Security Concerns
Mon, 03/13/2017
According to a recent KPMG report, four-fifths of executives at healthcare providers and payers say their information technology has been compromised by cyberattacks. That same report presents how the increased risk to healthcare organizations relates to the richness and uniqueness of the information that health plans, doctors and hospitals handle. Apart from typical financial fraud, there is also...