IBM i Security Tips
by Carol Woodbury
March 2010

Exit Programs to Simplify Administration
by Carol Woodbury 

When someone uses the term "exit program" most people think of the functionality that's available when using network connections such as FTP or ODBC. But IBM has provided many instances of exit programs throughout i5/OS and using them can simplify the administration of your system. Let's take a look at just some of the security-related exit points ...
 
SECURITY NEWSSTAND
Healthcare Data Exposed In California Security Breach
 
Social Security numbers appeared on labels used in mass mailing from government healthcare organization

A labeling blunder has exposed the private data of nearly 50,000 of California's most vulnerable healthcare recipients. Their Social Security numbers were printed on address labels used in a mass mailing, state officials said. The California Department of Health Care Services notified its beneficiaries of the security breach within several days of the Feb. 1 mailing. 

The DHCS was notified of the mistake Feb. 4 and started sending notification letters to beneficiaries two days later ...

It's Phishing Season; Beware These Scams

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't get at least one phishing email in my multiple email inboxes. I'm sure that my ISP has a filter, and my junk mail folders are always bulging, but somehow the phishers are still trickling in. Most of these bogus emails are easy to spot, but others are trickier. I read the subject line, and 99 percent of the time I don't have to go any further before I hit the delete key.

Now, I'll pose the question to you: What about when you get a communication purportedly from a government agency?

SkyView Appoints Tom Coccione CEO

Former IBM sales exec foresees sharp growth path for security compliance firm.

 
SkyView Partners Solutions
SkyView Partners is dedicated to providing software that helps you reduce the costs and complexities of attaining and maintaining compliance.

SkyView Policy Minder is an IBM i & i5/OS security compliance management tool that automates security policy compliance monitoring and delivers comprehensive security administration functionality. 
 
SkyView Risk Assessor is an automated IBM i & i5/OS security diagnostic tool that analyzes your security settings from more than 100+ "risk points" compared to security best practices.
In This Issue
Exit Programs to Simplify Administration
Healthcare Data Exposed In California Security Breach
It's Phishing Season; Beware These Scams
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"Before implementing Policy Minder, we spent a lot of time creating SOX compliance reports and queries. Now I just go in, print a Policy Minder report and, boom, I'm done! We were able to clean up, secure and get everything correct without spending months doing it."
 
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More organizations are realizing the need for implementing object level security - especially for database files that contain information which must comply with various laws or regulations. But the question many administrators have is, how do you secure files without breaking the application or other processes?

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