IBM i Security Tips
by Carol Woodbury
June 2010

Announcing Policy Minder 1.5

by Carol Woodbury 

This month I'm taking the opportunity to let you in on the early release details of the latest release of our wildly popular security compliance product - Policy Minder. 

The enhancements in this release are based on direct requests for you ... our customers.  Direct requests that will help make you more efficient and spend less time ...


Note: Policy Minder v1.5 is scheduled for general availability on Sept. 13, 2010.
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SkyView Partners Solutions
SkyView Partners is committed to providing clients with products and services that save time, reduce costs and simplify the management of security compliance.

SkyView Security Compliance Solution is a turnkey solution for fully installed and configured security compliance reporting on IBM i (iSeries) servers.  (All you have to do is check your email.)

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.
Free Webinar

Introducing New Products from SkyView Partners!
by Carol Woodbury

Wed., Sept. 15, 2010
8:00 AM PDT

Carol Woodbury will show the features from the latest version of Policy Minder as well as provide a sneak peek of a new product that has yet to be announced!

Customer Spotlight

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"We run Policy Minder on a weekly based to ensure that our applications stay properly secured.  The latest release will help us even more, by quickly identifying new objects - particularly new profiles that have been created or changed to have *ALLOBJ special authority.  Now these profiles have no chance of going unnoticed"
 
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Practical Implementation Guide to i5/OS Security

Video recording based on C award winning COMMON presentation

i5/OS integrated security has everything you need to secure your system, but many administrators find implementing it and understanding security compliance issues that surround it to be very frustrating.

This session - based on her award-winning COMMON presentation "Laying the Foundation of i5/OS and IBM iSecurity" - takes a practical look at implementing the features of i5/OS Security.

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