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CAUTION: RANT ALERT On Wednesday, November 19, Admiral Michael Walters, the head of the NSA made a very disturbing announcement. He said that China and one or two other countries have the capability to launch a cyber attack that could … Continue reading
Whenever I see a web site or hear a commercial touting how my personal information is secure because “we use encryption,” I just have to chuckle. I guarantee you that Target did — and does — encrypt your personal information … Continue reading
A hot debate over the inherent security benefits of open source software — or lack thereof — has been raging (again) since the “heartbleed” bug came to light last spring. So…..from a security expert’s point of view (yes, mine!), is … Continue reading
Posted in Botz Blog, Cloud Security, Compliance, Encryption, IBM i Security, Info Security Mgmt, Information Security, Mobile Security
Tagged AIX, AIX Security, AS/400, Closed Source, cloud security, compliance, cybersecurity, data security, encryption, Information Security, information security management, Open Source, Proprietary, security management
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Or…How a security expert can fall for a phishing scheme Think no one will target your business with phishing attacks? Think again… This confession is a bit hard for me. Just recently I was the target of a phishing attack. … Continue reading
Posted in Botz Blog, Cloud Security, IBM i Security, Info Security Mgmt, Information Security, Mobile Security, Social Engineering
Tagged authentication, cloud security, cybersecurity, data security, IBM i Security, IBMi, info security management, Information Security, information security management, password management, phishing, security management, spear phishing
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The new IBM i 7.2 release brings several security-related enhancements. Two of them are the ability to use SSO from an IBM i green screen to a remote Telnet or FTP server that also supports Kerberos.
Have you ever encountered a situation where a user needed to use an application that displayed all of the rows in a file, but the user really should be restricted from seeing certain rows in that file?
Posted in Announcement, Botz Blog, Compliance, IBM i Security, Info Security Mgmt, Information Security, Mobile Security
Tagged AS/400, cloud security, compliance, cybersecurity, data security, IBM i 7.2, IBM i Security, IBM i V7R2, IBMi, info security management, Information Security, information security management, V7R2
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OR….. How Jobs Get Authority to Objects Words have consequences. Saying things like “we’re going to tighten security” or “we’re going to remove public (or default) authority” or “we’re going to remove direct access to data” will almost invariably lead … Continue reading
Posted in Botz Blog, IBM i Security, Info Security Mgmt, Information Security, Mobile Security
Tagged AS/400, cloud security, cybersecurity, data security, IBM i Security, IBMi, info security management, Information Security, information security management, security management, security policy
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In the last week or so it has come to light that the way the Target Corporation attackers got into Target’s internal network was by using a vendor’s userID and password. The attackers first compromised the vendor’s corporate network. From … Continue reading
Did you ever think that the potential cost of a security breach is overstated by those who want to sell you security software or services? Well, no matter how you add it up, the potential cost to Target during the … Continue reading
On January 10th, 2014, Target Corporation released an update that personally identifiable information “separate from the payment card data previously disclosed” of an additional 70 million customers was stolen. The update from Target addresses many of the questions I had based … Continue reading
