Guide
Download "How IT Professionals Can Navigate SOX Compliance"
Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is impossible without IT professionals, but translating this law into IT action items is a challenge.
With penalties up to $10 million fines and even prison time, following SOX—and proving you're compliant—is vital.
This compliance guide breaks down the most important aspects of SOX that affect IT professionals and focuses on what you need to know to get...
On-Demand Webinar
Ask a Capacity Management Expert, Part One
Thu, 09/15/2016
Listen to this on-demand webinar to answer questions like: What does it take to be successful in capacity management? How do you manage capacity in the cloud? What are the common roadblocks—and how can we avoid them?
On-Demand Webinar
Capacity Management For Your Entire Infrastructure: Physical, Virtual & Cloud
By Bob Torz
Capacity Management has evolved over the last 40 years from spreadsheets and manual processes to full automation. In this webinar, TeamQuest will explain best practices in capacity management and walk through examples of predicting infrastructure requirements for your physical, virtual & cloud environments.
Article
Intermapper Application for Splunk Answers Need for Log Analytics in Network Management
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Wed, 09/07/2016
The Intermapper application for Splunk brings together Intermapper's robust network monitoring software with Splunk's high-powered searches and analysis of data stores.
Guide
Health and Risk: A New Paradigm for Capacity Management
Capacity management, considered by top analyst firms to be an essential process in any large IT organization, is often so complex that in today’s accelerated business world it cannot be effectively implemented. Changing priorities, increasing complexity and scalable cloud infrastructure have made traditional models for capacity management less relevant. A new paradigm for capacity management is...
Blog
IT Risk Mitigation
By Per Bauer on Thu, 09/01/2016
It's a brave new world for IT. And it often seems impossible to predict future demand and guard against performance risks.
You have mountains of data, scalable cloud infrastructures, and a complex web of IT environments. It's complicated, to say the least.
And it's matched by skyrocketing consumer demand for and reliance on online services.
Bottom line: outages are more dangerous to a company...
Guide
Download "How IT Professionals Can Navigate HIPAA Compliance" Guide
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one of today’s most common compliance mandates, but translating this law into IT action items is a challenge.
As fines increase and more audits are scheduled, figuring out how which data HIPAA protects and how to bring your system into compliance is more important than ever.
This compliance guide breaks down some of the thorniest...
Article
Enhanced Resource Monitoring with Robot Console
By Chuck Losinski on Tue, 08/30/2016
Robot Console has some exciting features for resource monitoring. You can automate the verification of your system resources and more!
Article
Monitor, Capture, and Send Log Events With Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i
By Robin Tatam on Sun, 08/21/2016
In recent years, regulatory initiatives like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, PCI, and GLBA have placed increased emphasis on the need to monitor and secure sensitive information. For example, The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard dictates one of the most stringent requirements of all—logs must be reviewed daily, and a minimum of three months of logs must be available for analysis.
Blog
Three Reasons You Need an Updated Security Policy
Sun, 08/21/2016
If you still think creating and maintaining a security policy isn’t necessary, you could be setting up your organization for an unpleasant surprise. Check out the top three reasons businesses need an up-to-date security policy.
Blog
IT Security Compliance 101
By Robin Tatam on Sun, 08/21/2016
In this compliance 101 primer, we'll look at three high-profile breaches from the past year, each of which shows what can go wrong when data oversight isn't up to snuff. Along the way, we'll discuss some basic fixes that can help shore up network defenses.
Article
Improve Event Auditing Using the System Audit Journal
By Sandi Moore on Fri, 08/19/2016
With any security implementation, established rules become less effective as time passes. Because your security requirements and your systems aren’t static, you must continually audit and adapt your security plan to stay current. Be aware that your system is constantly changing.
Guide
Effective Log Management
IBM’s customers are turning to Power VM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems increasing server utilization and reducing cost. However a virtualized server landscape on several different IBM platforms (IBM Power Systems™, IBM System x®, and IBM BladeCenter®) may reduce hardware complexity but this puts a strain on supporting the entire lifecycle of analysis,...
Guide
13 Tips to Write Secure Applications and Boost IBM i Security
Barely a day passes without new headlines reporting another cyber attack, policy violation, or data breach. Secretly, we breathe a sigh of relief that it happened to someone else, but most of us know that we’ll all eventually feel the impact in some capacity.
Guide
Two Factor Authentication for IBM i
Organizations facing a more advanced threat landscape and a complex regulatory environment require a solution which addresses the need for securely controlling access to existing systems and applications. In addition, this solution should not increase the workload on support, application providers or the end user.