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Free PowerLock Flash Audit http://search400.com/r/0,,5956,00.htm?powertech ============================================================= Essential explanations and tools to help secure the iSeries. More tips: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f8,00.html ============================================================= 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: -- Limit access to workstations Answers to Other Technical Questions: 1. Alternative to "application only" security 2. Recommended security settings on the iSeries 3. Security for Java applications 4. Disable inactive user profiles Important Announcements and Links - Tips Contest: August winners announced - Search400 IT Excellence Awards: Accepting nominations now - Expert profile: Dan Riehl, Search400.com security expert - Search400 Salary Survey: Are you earning enough? - Advice: Managing the iSeries Discussion Forum _______________________________________________________________ ******************* SPONSORED BY PowerTech ****************** Free PowerLock Flash Audit Is your iSeries secure? Do you want to be sure? Sure, it's easy to say your iSeries is secure, but do you really know? PowerLock FlashAudit from PowerTech answers these questions. It runs a quick and non-intrusive audit of your iSeries. When vulnerabilities are discovered, PowerTech provides the answers you need! Click Below to request your Free PowerLock FlashAudit. http://search400.com/r/0,,5956,00.htm?powertech =========================================================== Today's Featured Tip =========================================================== Limit access to workstations| By Rich Loeber In any iSeries installation it is important to limit access to workstations. You want to allow authorized users to access specific terminal devices, but you want to keep users from logging onto the system from a device where they should not be working. OS/400 security provides you with an easy way to do this. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci850930,00.html. ============================================================= Answers to Other Security Questions ============================================================= 1. Alternative to "application only" security Search400 member Skumar Parvathaneni provides an alternative to "application only" security. Read this tip to learn more about exit point programs to secure ODBC, FTP, RMTCMD and others. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci838050,00.html 2. Recommended security settings on the iSeries Check out this tip to find out your current security settings and the recommended settings suggested by IBM. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci762799,00.html 3. Security for Java applications Patrice writes, "We have many developers requesting iSeries profiles with passwords that don't expire. These profiles are used to allow connectivity. The reasoning is that the application needs to be able to log on and to prevent re-entering a password and recompiling the program every 90 days -- the password must remain the same. What are some different methods being used to resolve these issues?" A couple of Search400.com members responded. Read what they had to say. http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee84639/830 4. Disable inactive user profiles Search400.com member Juzar Borsadwala provides a command to use in order to disable user profiles that have not been used since "nnn" days. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci844650,00.html _____________________________________________________________ ::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS :::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= AUGUST WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400.com tips contest The results are in. Drum roll please.... The top winner for Search400.com's Tips Contest for August is Milan Baranovic. Milan won a Beetle CD stereo and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: "Get more with system request," http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci844648,00.html Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Daniel Kuchar, Thomas Gdovin and Nora Holland. View all winning tips in Search400.com's Hall of Fame: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsHallOfFame/0,289489,sid3_prz826588_cts826578,00.html NEW CONTEST FOR SEPTEMBER: This month we're giving away a Futuristic Mega stereo. This Mega stereo combines four music formats in one state-of-the-art player. You have a chance to win the latest in stereo technology all combined into one sleek, futuristic device. Listen to CDs, FM radio, MP3 formatted CDs you've created yourself, or view digital quality VCD on your TV or monitor. >> SUBMIT a tip: http://www.search400.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid3_prz847146_cts847163,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS NOW | Search400 IT Excellence Awards We're on the lookout for medium- and large-scale companies that are blazing new trails in iSeries 400 computing. Are you pushing the limits of the iSeries server capacity or taking Web development for the iSeries to the next level? If so, then submit your nomination for Search400's IT Excellence Awards. This awards program recognizes the IT achievers at end-user companies who design, build and manage these complex technologies (no vendors, please). The deadline for submissions is Friday, Oct. 25, 2002. >> NOMINATE a company today: http://search400.techtarget.com/awards =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- EXPERT PROFILE | Dan Riehl, Search400.com security expert Dan Riehl is president of The 400 School, the popular iSeries training company, and co-founder of The Powertech Group, one of the leading providers of iSeries security software. Dan is a popular author and lecturer on iSeries security issues. His accomplishments include authorship of several AS/400 and iSeries technical books and numerous articles published in various iSeries magazines. Since 1988 he has been a technical editor and author for multiple iSeries magazines, and he is currently technical editor for IBM's eServer Magazine iSeries edition. In addition to his other tasks, Dan regularly performs in-depth iSeries security audits and provides instruction and consulting on iSeries security issues. Let Dan's experience work for you. Ask Dan Security-related questions anytime. >> CLICK HERE TO ASK Dan a question: http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestion/0,289624,sid3_tax288767,00.html >> CLICK HERE TO READ recent Q&As: http://search400.techtarget.com/ateAnswers/0,289620,sid3_cid423497_tax288767,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ARE YOU EARNING ENOUGH? | Search400.com salary survey Take Search400.com's interactive salary survey and see where you stand. Is your salary similar to other iSeries professionals? Do you put in more hours than others who have the same job as you? Click over and find out. Results are updated daily. >> TAKE the salary survey today: http://search400.techtarget.com/salarySurveySkill/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MANAGING THE ISERIES DISCUSSION FORUM | Interact with your peers Check out Search400's 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. >> RECENT DISCUSSION THREADS you may find of interest: * System values security http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee84639/817 * Security policy: Disabling QSECOFR http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee84638/2472 _____________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: SEARCH400 CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: TIP MAILBOX, (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us feedback on tips and ideas for new tip content. _____________________________________________________________ MICHELLE DAVIDSON, Site Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us your story ideas and best practices. _____________________________________________________________ DEBRA TART, Assistant Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send us your tips and Best Web Links. _____________________________________________________________ DAVID GABEL, Executive Tech Editor (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Send me your technical tips and tip ideas. _____________________________________________________________ GABRIELLE DERUSSY (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> Sponsor this or any other TechTarget newsletter. _____________________________________________________________ :::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER:::::::::::::::::: Published by TechTarget (http://www.techtarget.com) TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2002 TechTarget. 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