Guide
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.
Blog
Using Field Procedures for IBM i Encryption
By Robin Tatam on Fri, 09/15/2017
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).
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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...
On-Demand Webinar
Deploying Multi-Factor Authentication in Your Enterprise
By Robin Tatam
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) exists because of the steady increase in data breach events. A data breach can subject your organization to steep fines, litigation, and even criminal prosecution. And it opens innocent third parties to identify theft, which you may also be legally required to mitigate—at your own expense.
MFA protects you from the most common cause of a data breach: compromised...
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Find Sensitive IBM i Data in Need of Encryption
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.
Find Database Fields ...
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Build or Buy: Multi-Factor Authentication Software for IBM i
By Robin Tatam on Mon, 04/24/2017
PCI’s MFA requirements now apply to IBM i. You have two choices: purchase MFA software that’s designed for IBM i or write your own program to link your existing MFA solution to IBM i. What's the best option for your organization?
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How Multi-Factor Authentication Enhances Data Security
By Robin Tatam on Fri, 04/21/2017
Many data breaches are attributed to user negligence in the form of weak or reused passwords. Watch this short video to learn how multi-factor authentication can neutralize these vulnerabilities.
Authentication Manager
Compliance and cybersecurity are challenges facing virtually every organization. But meeting these challenges often drains IT resources, cutting into other critical projects. Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication features an authentication manager that enables IT staff—and end users—to work efficiently.
From user administration to auditing and reporting, this authentication manager delivers the...
Authentication Methods
Organizations around the world have a common problem: when security controls are too burdensome, users look for ways to get around them and compromise sensitive data in the process.
Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication is a multi-factor solution that eliminates this problem. By providing several different authentication methods to choose from, Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication ensures that...
Powertech Multi-Factor Authentication
Simple access authentication for servers inside and outside your firewall
On-Demand Webinar
Report Capture and Delivery for the 21st Century
It’s time to re-think your reports. Watch the webinar to learn how to modernize report capture, management, and delivery for Windows and IBM i.
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Compare Powertech Encryption for IBM i to IBM's Cryptographic APIs for Encrypting Database Fields
By Bob Luebbe on Fri, 03/17/2017
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.
Article
Advantages of Powertech Encryption for IBM i Over the Complexities and Risks of Disk Encryption
By Bob Luebbe on Fri, 03/17/2017
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.
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...
Tokenization
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...
Strong Encryption
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 ...
Encryption Key Management Software
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 ...
Powertech Encryption for IBM i
Protect sensitive IBM i data with encryption, key management, and auditing