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I’ve Got *ALLOBJ Authority And I’m Not Afraid To Use It—Part 2
By Robin Tatam on Thu, 06/27/2019
While everyone likes to feel special, we need to be more selective when it comes to data access. As we discussed last month, many users have privileges far beyond their business requirements and simply need to have their access reduced to more reasonable levels.
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Pro Tips for IBM i User Access Management
By Robin Tatam
Watch this webinar to learn how to increase user efficiency and improve your IBM i security posture at the same time.
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Why Your CRM System Needs RPA
By Pat Cameron
Watch our on-demand webinar to learn how you can use RPA to power your CRM system with the most up-to-date data from your critical business applications.
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Robot Save
Robot Save provides automated backup, recovery, and encryption for IBM i. Schedule a demo today.
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Powertech Authority Broker for IBM i
Satisfy your auditor requirements with reports that provide a complete audit trail of privileged user activity with Powertech Authority Broker for IBM i. Schedule a demo today.
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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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Getting Started with IBM i Security: User Privileges
By Robin Tatam
Get up to speed on special authorities, command line access, and auditing user activities
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Everything You Need to Know About RPA in 30 Minutes
By Pat Cameron
If you’re hearing terms like digital workforce, software robot, and automation center of excellence, but aren’t sure what it all means, this webinar is for you. Learn about the advantages of automation with RPA, real-life robotic process automation use cases, and common RPA terminology.
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Sync Your SharePoint Processes with Automation
Automation is a great way to streamline your SharePoint processes. Watch the webinar to learn how to keep these documents and information synced with the rest of your corporate data.
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Controlling Insider Threats on IBM i
By Robin Tatam
Despite the avalanche of regulations, news headlines remain chock full of stories about data breaches, all initiated by insiders or intruders masquerading as insiders.
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5 Scary Stories about iSeries Disaster Recovery
By Debbie Saugen on Tue, 10/31/2017
If you have no disaster recovery plan, have never tested a recovery, or are thinking it could never happen to your organization, you could be in for some scary consequences.
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The Business Leader’s Handbook for Building an Automation Center of Excellence
Creating an automation center of excellence (COE) ensures that you are automating your enterprise with strategy and vision. This guide gives you the expertise you need to put together a great team, follow best practices, and continually optimize your automation COE.
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An Automated Recovery Plan Auditors Will Love
Boom. Disaster strikes. Now, it’s up to you to find the tape volume that contains the lost data and restore it quickly to the correct location. Luckily, recovering your IBM i data is easy with Robot Save.
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Audit Tested & Audit Approved Instant Authority!
By Robin Tatam on Fri, 03/24/2017
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.
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How “Smash and Grab” Compromises IBM i
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
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.
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The Modern Alternative to Authority Adoption
By Robin Tatam on Wed, 03/08/2017
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?
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Database Transaction Log Management
Mon, 03/06/2017
Don't let database transaction logs weigh you down. Find out how to preserve data integrity and consume less disk space.
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How DR Compliance Requirements Impact HA Decisions
By Tom Huntington on Wed, 03/01/2017
Disaster recovery requirements are part of the geographic and industry regulations that affect our organizations. Having the right solutions in place can help to avoid penalties and make audits go smoothly. Read on to create a complete compliance toolkit.
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An Introduction to PCI Compliance on IBM Power Systems
By Robin Tatam
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?