Resources

Guide
Guide

Download "A Guide to Practical Single Sign On"

    The cost of managing user access to data and software applications with user IDs and passwords adds up quickly, but the solution is surprisingly simple. With single sign on (SSO), you can eliminate passwords—and the cost associated with them—by joining your IBM i, AIX, and Linux servers to your Windows domain for authentication. The key to...
Vulnerability Management
Guide
Guide

Download "CIO Confidential: 5 Things Your IBM i Security Administrator Should Tell You"

Employees on the front lines often possess insight that manager, directors, and executives lack.  Corporate leaders rely on feedback from these professionals, especially when it comes to emerging security threat. But for a variety of reasons, systems administrators might be reluctant to to speak up about critical issues related to IBM i, including the importance of...
Compliance
IBM i Cybersecurity
Guide
Guide

Download "How to Securely Deploy Access Client Solutions (ACS) for IBM i"

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) is the newest member of the IBM i Access family, replacing the IBM i Access for Windows client. ACS runs on most operating systems supporting Java. Because ACS uses different technology and deployment approach than IBM i Access for Windows, the considerations for securely deploying ACS are different than IBM i Access for Windows....
IBM i Cybersecurity
Guide
Guide

DMZ Secure Gateways: Secret Weapons for Data Security

Exchanging a high workload of files with customers, employees, and trading partners is common in today's global economy. Add various data security standards to the mix, like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the GDPR, and protecting sensitive data becomes a challenge many organizations struggle to overcome. In an effort to simplify how file transfers are retrieved, many IT teams install...
Data Protection
Guide
Guide

The Ultimate Guide to Investing in Secure File Transfer Software

We know finding the right file transfer solution for your organization isn’t an easy process. There are dozens of details to consider - from industry and compliance concerns, to critical cybersecurity needs; choosing a vendor can be complex.  In this ultimate buyer’s guide, you’ll find the information you need to successfully evaluate different managed file transfer solutions....
Data Protection
Press Release
Press Release

Weak Internal Security Causes Weak External Security

Long-time security expert, Pat Botz, recently joined Fortra. Botz goes way back in the computer industry. He wrote the Basic compiler and CAD tools for Control Data supercomputers and then lead the development of CAD tools for its AIX workstation line three decades ago. He eventually became a lead security architect for the IBM i platform, and left Big Blue a number of years ago to start his own security firm, Botz & Associates. Dan sat down to have a chat with Chris Heim, chief executive officer of Fortra, and John Vanderwall, vice president and business unit manager for security services at the company, as well as Botz, who now has a senior security services consultant position at the company.
Guide
Guide

Download "The Complete Guide to Securing IBM i Exit Points"

    Exit points and exit programs aren’t new concepts, but we get more questions about them than any other topic related to IBM i security. Most people who work with IBM i have heard of them but aren’t sure if they need to use them. This guide is designed to equip IBM i pros with information about what exit points are and how exit programs work,...
Data Protection
Vulnerability Management
IBM i Cybersecurity
Guide
Guide

10 Hidden Gems of BRMS for IBM i

Get insider tech tips on the most helpful features of Backup, Recovery and Media Services for i (BRMS)!   Image What if your IBM i came equipped with a tool that could help you automate and manage backup/recovery across your enterprise IBM i environment? What’s that, you say? It’s called BRMS for i? That’s right! BRMS is already...
IBM i Automation
Guide
Guide

Download the EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation

Analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has released its latest Radar™ report for Workload Automation. The Radar report delivers an in-depth analysis of industry-leading vendors and vendor products, including their overall market position in comparison with other vendors. In this Radar report, Automate from Fortra has once again been named a Value Leader in workload...
Automation
Workload Automation & Job Scheduling
Guide
Guide

Download "Childhood's End: Attackers Increasingly Take Aim at Linux Systems"

Like the wide-eyed humans who mistakenly trust their benevolent alien overlords in Arthur C. Clarke’s science-fiction classic, Linux users the world over are beginning to awaken to the reality that their malware- free utopian childhood is rapidly coming to an end. A startling increase in malware, ransomware and malicious code targeting Linux systems of all shapes and sizes...
Infrastructure and Data Protection
Data Protection
Vulnerability Management