Robot HA is a software-based high availability solution that allows you to replicate your important data and keep business running even when your production environment goes down.
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.
Robin Tatam has fielded quite a few questions about how to encrypt IBM i data. In this quick video, he outlines your options and explains field procedures (FieldProcs).
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...
Are you doing everything you can to protect your organization’s data? Our expert panel discusses high availability considerations for today’s security concerns and more in this recorded webinar.
PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes Oxley, and state privacy laws put pressure on organizations to properly protect sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and bank account numbers.
To provide the best protection for sensitive data stored on your system, you should seriously consider encryption. But first you need to find where this data is stored.
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If your organization is thinking about using (or is using) IBM's Cryptographic APIs (e.g. QC3ENCDT, Qc3EncryptData) for encrypting database fields, then this article is for you.
Disk drive encryption may help you comply with PCI DSS, but you must follow strict requirements. Additionally, relying solely on disk drive encryption for data protection has serious potential risks that you should be aware of.
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.
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...
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...
Tokenization should be considered when sensitive data is stored on multiple systems throughout an organization. Tokenization is the process of replacing sensitive data with unique identification numbers (e.g. tokens) and storing the original data on a central server, typically in encrypted form.
By centralizing sensitive data onto a single system, tokenization can help thwart hackers and minimi...
Database field encryption has traditionally been very difficult and time-consuming to implement on IBM i. In the past, major application changes would have to be made to expand database field sizes and implement complicated API calls to encrypt/decrypt data. In contrast, the design of Powertech Encryption for IBM i allows organizations to encrypt fields quickly and effectively using its intuitive ...
Powertech Encryption for IBM i includes an advanced Key Management system which resides natively on IBM i. This Key Management system is seamlessly integrated with Powertech Encryption’s policy controls, encryption functions and auditing facilities to provide a comprehensive data protection solution.
Together with the integrated security on IBM i, organizations can strictly control access ...
See how a two-pronged approach using data backups and a high availability solution could deliver the strongest disaster recovery strategy for your organization.