================================================================== SEARCH400.COM | Security Tip Jan. 13, 2004 ================================================================== FROM OUR SPONSOR:
Enterprise Outsourcing Decisions: March 24 - 26, Atlanta, GA http://searchCIO.com/r/0,,21963,00.htm?track=NL-236 ================================================================== Essential explanations and tools to help secure the iSeries. More tips: http://search400.techtarget.com/tipsIndex/0,289482,sid3_tax2f8,00.html?track=NL-236 ================================================================== 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: -- Standardized security setup across multiple systems Answers to Other Technical Questions: - Secure your iSeries - Consolidating several clients on a single iSeries - Error message after OS/400 upgrade - Unique user profiles critical to OS/400 security Important Announcements and Links - Search400.com tips contest: December winners announced - Poll: Will you be using Java, WebSphere or Linux this year? - Free on Search400.com: White Papers on iSeries security - Systems Management: Best Web Links on Security __________________________________________________________________ ****** SPONSORED BY: Enterprise Outsourcing Decisions ************* March 24 - 26, Atlanta, GA Is cost still the main reason for outsourcing? What aspects of your business should you outsource - the critical or non-critical business functions? Enterprise Outsourcing Decisions delivers answers to these questions and more for companies already outsourcing or still in the decision-making process. Learn how to achieve greater ROI from your investments, make smart offshore outsourcing decisions, choose the right vendors and set your sourcing strategy. Confirm your registration today and save $1,495. http://searchCIO.com/r/0,,21963,00.htm?track=NL-236 =================================================================== Today's Featured Tip =================================================================== Standardized security setup across multiple systems by Rich Loeber Nothing supports the popularity of the iSeries as much as the number of customers with multiple systems installed. For security officers, it can easily mean a lot of extra work keeping each system configured and setup for company security policies. While this can be a complex task, IBM has provided a little known capability in OS/400 for quite a while now that can help you to enforce standard security configuration setup rules across separate systems. >> CLICK here for the full tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci944162,00.html?track=NL-236 =================================================================== Answers to Other Security Questions =================================================================== SECURE 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 in this Search400.com Featured Topic helps you close up any gaps you may have. http://search400.techtarget.com/featuredTopic/0,290042,sid3_gci783697,00.html?track=NL-236 ERROR MESSAGE AFTER OS/400 UPGRADE One user writes, "After installing the OS/400 upgrade from V4R5 to V5R1 I'm getting the message: User quser not authorized to object qtemp/zrcrpcspc type *usrspv. This message is on our audit log. I'd like to know how to stop it." Search400.com security expert Carol Woodbury offers some advice. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid493929_tax288767,00.html?track=NL-236 UNIQUE USER PROFILES CRITICAL TO OS/400 SECURITY Auditing success requires that you are able to identify system actions and accesses down to the individual object and user level, and OS/400 is very successful at tracking system activity and maintaining the proper audit trail for both users and objects. But you have to make sure you have unique profile names that allow you to glean information quickly. http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci853267,00.html?track=NL-236 CONSOLIDATING SEVERAL CLIENTS ON A SINGLE ISERIES One Search400.com member writes, "We have an administration system that is outsourced with a vendor. Currently, it is hosted on its own iSeries, which is connected to our network. We have 5250, FTP and ODBC access. Our vendor is looking to consolidate several clients on a single machine. He has indicated that he will achieve this by putting each client into a separate subsystem. From an application and network perspective, would this approach provide adequate security and privacy? If not, what would you recommend?" Site expert Carol Woodbury was on hand to help him out. http://www.search400.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid567101_tax288767,00.html?track=NL-236 ___________________________________________________________________ :::::::::: DON'T MISS THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES AND LINKS ::::::::: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DECEMBER WINNERS ANNOUNCED | Search400.com tips contest Drum roll please.... You've been waiting patiently, and the results are finally in... The top winner for Search400.com's Tips Contest for December is Dennis Cote. Dennis won a 128MB Amoeba MP3 Player & Voice Recorder and was added to our Hall of Fame for his tip: Get up to speed on the restore/display journal receiver command http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci939739,00.html?track=NL-236 Congratulations also to our runner-up winners: Jean-Marie Sauvageot, Tri Yanto and Eitan Rosenberg. 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