IBM i Security Tips
by Carol Woodbury
November 2010

The Power of the Audit Journal
by Carol Woodbury
President & CTO, SkyView Partners, Inc.

Unbeknownst to most users of the IBM i, there is a gold mine of information in the i5/OS audit journal.  It contains, not only the obvious logs of authority failures, but it also contains information that is helpful to debugging daily issues that come your way. 

Let's take a look at the obvious and not-so-obvious information in the audit journal....

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Congratulations to Carol Woodbury
on becoming Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) from the ISACA Organization.

SECURITY NEWSSTAND
Tougher Data Protection Laws Force Businesses To Rethink Compliance
 
New RSA, SBIC report provides guidelines for businesses in 'new era' of compliance

Say goodbye to the compliance-checkbox mentality: Data protection laws are expanding worldwide and cracking down on the way businesses protect electronic information, a new report published this week says ...  

 

Patient Data Security Not A Main Concern For Healthcare Providers

If you're not feeling ill yet, consider this: Most healthcare organizations say they have little or no confidence in their capacity to lock down patient data, 71 percent say they don't have enough resources, and 69 percent say they don't have the proper policies and processes to detect data breaches.

 

Study shows lack of security training

Forty-four percent reported storing work data on personal memory devices and 25% use personal accounts on social networks to comment about their job.

 
SkyView Partners Solutions

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

NEW - SkyView Audit Journal Reporter (avail. 22-NOV-2010) is a report generator of the security and compliance actions and events logged to the IBM i audit journal producing pre-formatted reports designed by Carol Woodbury.


In This Issue
The Power of the Audit Journal
Tougher Data Protection Laws Force Businesses To Rethink Compliance
Patient Data Security Not A Main Concern For Most Healthcare Providers
Study shows lack of security training
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SkyView Audit Journal Reporter is a report generator of the actions and events logged to the IBM i audit journal producing .

Audit Journal Reporter is designed to reduce the time it takes to obtain useful information out of IBM i audit journal by producing pre-formatted reports designed by Carol Woodbury, eliminating the need for you to understand the complexities of the IBM i audit journal.

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Carol Woodbury

Q. How do you perform (independent) vulnerability assessments? 


A. That's what the SkyView "Security Check-up" is designed to address.

 

SkyView Security Check-up is a consulting service designed to provide you with a 3rd party assessment of your systems' security environment. SkyView Security Check-ups:

  • Are done offsite, so we don't have to interrupt your normal work flow.
  • Represent an independent third party verification of your security.
  • Give you a prioritized list of "next steps" to take with your systems security

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