by Dawn May | Nov 14, 2017 | IBM i Services, Security
Syslog is a very popular reporting system that runs on many devices and OSes. It uses various parts and programs to encode, transmit, consolidate, and analyze messages from a wide range of devices. Everything from Windows and UNIX to firewalls and IoT devices participate in sending and centralizing messages from across the enterprise. That is, except for IBM i. Of course, we always must be different (usually for good reasons). However, when a security team wants to have an enterprise-wide view of events with a tool such as a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), we sometimes feel left out. Until now!
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by Dawn May | Jul 12, 2016 | Networking, Security
Another day, another security vulnerability. System administrators everywhere battle daily to keep their systems secure. When security algorithms are deemed vulnerable or another network attack is disclosed, how do you know if you’re impacted? How many issues could be caused by turning a weak security algorithm off? Tracing network traffic and analyzing the data is a tedious task and isn’t always straightforward.
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by Dawn May | Apr 12, 2016 | IBM i Services, Security
IBM i 7.3 is here! IBM i 7.3 has added a feature called “Security Authority Collection” which tracks how applications and application users “use” an object. Inquiries against that collection will provide advice on securing critical business data and applications from intrusion by identifying who needs to have access to data and in what context. This is a major enhancement to security management that is unique to IBM i.
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by Dawn May | Mar 29, 2016 | IBM i Services, Security
In 2012, I wrote about Function Usage Capabilities. That blog post reviewed user interfaces for function usage information, which includes a set of commands, APIs, and the Application Administration graphical user interface.
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by Dawn May | Nov 10, 2015 | Prestart Jobs, Server Jobs, Security, Work Management
While at a conference this fall, I was asked about job accounting and prestart jobs. I thought this would be a good blog topic.
If you have set up job accounting, the system will write journal entries to the job accounting journal when the accounting code is changed or when a job ends.
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by Dawn May | May 14, 2015 | Security, Systems Management
We all know that security vulnerabilities seem constant and ensuring you have the correct level of software to eliminate those vulnerabilities is very important.
The IBM Technology for Java JVM is a common code base that runs on IBM i, so if updates are made to that code base, you need to ensure you get those same updates on your i.
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