System iNetwork

April 1, 2008

Day 3 at the Expo: The Security & Networking/Connectivity Beat

Today was the final day of the Expo. The overall feeling I got was that it's been a good, productive show with plenty of traffic. I was able to visit with several exhibitors today to give you another sampling of what's new in the networking/connectivity and security beats:

I talked to Raz-Lee about iSecurity, its suite of security products for System i. iSecurity incorporates the Prevention Pack, the Compliance pack, and -- what Eli Spitz, vice president of business development, says sets Raz-Lee apart from its competitors -- the Application Security Pack. The Prevention Pack includes such modules as firewall, anti-virus, password management, user profile manager, and more. The Compliance Pack includes an audit module, an action module for invoking corrective and reporting procedures for detected breaches, system and MSGQ control, and AP-journal regulation compliance. The Application Security Pack includes a capture module (realtime green-screen-tracking), AP-journal analysis and alerts, and a view module (field- and record-level security for hiding sensitive information).

Over at the Fax*Star booth, I gleaned information about Max400, a software utility that tunes and maximizes interactive CPW performance of the System i. Recently upgraded to work with V5R4 and higher, Max400 scans the system regularly and resets certain flags within jobs that indicate whether the job has sent I/O to a display device. Resetting the flags prevents them from causing the job to trigger the interactive governor's slow-down process.

Next, I spoke with Bytware about their latest news: the expansion of the StandGuard Anti-Virus family of products to include a module for scanning IBM Lotus Domino mail and databases on the System i. An optional add-on for StandGuard Anti-Virus System i, StandGuard Anti-Virus for Domino (powered by McAfee) includes mail scanning, database scanning, quarantine, realtime alerts, automatic updating of antivirus databases, scheduling, and logging.

Meanwhile, the news at the Biscom exhibit was the new features just announced for its FAXCOM for iSeries product. Some of the enhancements are: the ability to attach a Windows PC document to your fax/e-mail; the addition of e-mail cc and bcc fields to the FAXCOM global address book; an e-mail history that keeps track of all recipients transmitted to rather than just the last one; the ability to have more than one e-mail recipient when using a custom address book with the scan monitor; a new command in the API monitor; and a new parameter in the SDMSPLFAXB.

— Linda Harty, web strategic editor

Posted by lharty at April 1, 2008 9:07 PM