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Hello!
Welcome to my first blog posting. As I write this from a Starbucks ... not in my native Seattle ... but in London, I can confirm that the security issues faced in the States are the same as those faced in other countries. Growing government and industry regulation over the use and protection of data is a common theme wherever I go. The need for good security practices is permeating all industries in all countries around the world. And so this discussion begins. I hope to offer advice, provide tips and point you to undiscovered features of i5/OS security. But be prepared - I intend to tell it like it is and you might not always like what I have to say!
So as this blog opens, my question to you is this - How can I help? What topics would you like to see discussed on this blog? What issues are you facing? What questions about i5/OS security would you like answered?
That's it for now - Cheers!
Security audits are adding new and significant costs to running a business. Are there ways to work smarter so that the costs associated with these audits can be reduced somehow?
Thanks!
You're right, security audits are adding a lot of costs to running a business... and they're taxing system administrators that already have way too much on their plates. The key to reducing these costs is automation. Most auditors want very similar information. So I recommend that administrators have a set of easily-generated reports that provide the information that auditors are looking for. Better yet, with the right reports, the information provided can help the admnistrators keep their systems in perpetual compliance but also help with administration tasks, making their core responsibilities a little easier. Of course, I have to (unashamedy!) recommend my own company's products to produce these reports - SkyView Risk Assessor and SkyView Policy Minder. In fact, that's how I designed the products - to save administrators' time, remove them from the mundane task of generating reports and put them back doing something that is more interesting.