=========================================================== SEARCH400 | Security Tip March 12, 2002
Essential explanations and tools to help secure the iSeries. More tips: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f8,00.html =========================================================== Welcome to our first Security Newsletter. Security is always an issue, even for companies that run the iSeries. This monthly tip, which is an addition to our regular administrator tips, will highlight issues you need to be aware of and help you to be proactive when managing your systems. If you have a security issue you'd like us to address, e-mail us at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. And if you have a security tip of your own, send it in. We'll post it on the site, and you could win our Tip of the Month contest. -- Michelle Davidson, site editor In today's technical advice roundup you'll find tips, expert answers and input from your peers to the following iSeries security questions and concerns: Today's Featured Security Tip: -- Even on iSeries, security takes planning and work Answers to Other Technical Questions: 1. How to prevent a hack attack 2. Getting to level 40 security 3. AUTOFTP reduces security exposure 4. How secure is your iSeries? Important Announcements and Links - Tips contest: February winners announced - Advice: Managing the iSeries Discussion Forum - Featured Book: Implementing AS/400 Security - Third Edition - Systems Management: Best Web Links on Security ___________________________________________________________ ************** SPONSORED BY: PowerTech ********************* Download FREE intrusion detection software. Is your iSeries Really Secure? PCs connected to your iSeries pose security risks. End users have direct access to data. Identify and close security gaps inside your firewall using PowerLock NetworkSecurity, which provides network access control, intrusion detection and vulnerability assessment. Please click below today for your FREE Intrusion detection software. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4008076;5058249;j?http://search400.techtarget.com/survey/1,290964,sid3,00.html?s=451509&track=TIS =========================================================== Today's Featured Tip =========================================================== Even on iSeries, security takes planning and work Think your iSeries is secure? Think again. If you don't have a security policy in place, your system could be open to breaches that you aren't aware of. This tip, provided courtesy of Insider Weekly, outlines the four steps to ensuring proper security and helps you develop your own security policy. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci809238,00.html ============================================================= Answers to Other Security Questions ============================================================= 1. How to prevent a hack attack OS/400 is a relatively closed operating system that prevents the OS internals from being accessed by user-written programs. However, the iSeries is still a computer and unless it's properly secured, there are several ways an unauthorized person can gain access. Find out how to keep them out in this tip from Search400 member David Ong. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci809408,00.html 2. Getting to level 40 security Security expert Carol Woodbury outlines the benefits of level 40 security. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid429454_tax288767,00.html 3. AUTOFTP reduces security exposure found in traditional FTP transfers This tip from Search400 member Phillip Howells says AUTOFTP can be used as a replacement to FTP in batched CLs and the iSeries 400 scheduler. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci770308,00.html 4. How secure is your iSeries? The iSeries is one of the most secure systems, but there are still ways for data to be compromised -- network holes and users with too much authority, for example. The information here will help you close up any gaps you may have. http://search400.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid3_gci783697,00.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Special Training Offer: 30% off - The Linux Operating Systems ----------------------------------------------------------------- Learn all about Linux with this introductory course. It highlights those aspects that make Linux an innovative operating system, and provides some commonly used Unix skills and "tricks". Act now and get 30% off. Click below for more details: http://nous.gofcs.com/?s=52&p=courses&t=outline&i=WT2570&m=225s _____________________________________________________________ ::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS :::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FEBRUARY WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400 tips contest Congratulations to Nick Hobson for winning Search400's Tip of the Month contest for February. Nick won a Philips eXpanium CD-MP3 player and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "In search of a better Lookup?" http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci801392,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Colin Bates, Sudhakar Kunji and Roland Thibault. You may read their winning tips at: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsHallOfFame/0,289489,sid3_prz804422_cts804420,00.html NEW CONTEST FOR MARCH: This month we're giving away a Garmin eMap GPS. With the eMap, no matter if you are in your car or hiking in the mountains, you are never alone. The eMap contains a differential-ready, 12-parallel channel GPS receiver that continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites to compute and update your position. Send in your tip -- you could be our next winner. >> SUBMIT a Tip: http://www.search400.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid3_prz804422_cts804420,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- MANAGING THE ISERIES DISCUSSION FORUM | Interact with your peers Check out Search400's new Managing the iSeries discussion forum. If you have a performance problem you just can't figure out, or you need help recovering data after a system crash, we recommend you check out this forum. Other system managers can help you with these and other management issues. >> DISCUSSION THREADS you may find of interest: * Power outage detection http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/290 * BRMS Incremental Backups http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/323 >> CLICK HERE to enter the forum... http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]!viewtype=&skip=&expand= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THIS WEEK'S FEATURED BOOK | search400's Bookstore Title: Implementing AS/400 Security - Third Edition Author: Carol Woodbury and Wayne Madden Changing system security needs and new system enhancements make this a must have book for every iSeries 400 shop. Wayne Madden and Search400 expert Carol Woodbury bring a wealth of expertise to this timely topic, making creating, updating, and implementing vital security measures clear and easily understood. http://www.digitalguru.com/DigitalGuru/product_detail.asp?catalog_name=Books&product_id=1583040730&partner_id=55 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT| Best Web Links on Security These Best Web Links provide you with resources to help you make your system as secure as it can be. Don't waste your time scouring the Web; we've already done that for you. http://search400.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid3_tax2c5,00.html ======================================================== QUALIFY TO ATTEND OUR FREE WINDOWS CONFERENCE ======================================================== Don't miss our Windows Decisions conference May 8-10 at the Hilton Chicago Hotel. 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