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Real Life Experience - System i Data Theft
... It is our responsibility as system administrators and security officers to keep our... received a rather frantic phone call from the IT security administrator from a large US company. He... administrators and ...
Quick Tip: Deleting User Profiles and Adopted Authority
\'Does the user own any programs, service programs or SQL packages ?\' and, if so, \'Do any of those objects adopt the owner\'s authority ?\'"> User profiles that were created for former employees should be immediately disabled upon their departure, ...
Guard your system - Keeping track of NEW Adopting Objects
. These adopting programs can be used to circumvent the security controls and file permissions that you have ...
Journal Insights - Skipped Sequence Numbers
If you've ever been challenged by auditors in your shop to explain why there appear to be "missing" journal entries, you'll want to know about a little trick you can use to make these normally hidden journal entries pop to the surface. As you probably k ...
Protecting Sensitive Data – But - Where is it?
... QA environment libraries. "> When we discuss the security and protection of sensitive data like credit card numbers, Bank Account Numbers and Social security Numbers we tend to focus..., and set the library and file level ...
Copying authorities from one user to another – The GRTUSRAUT Command
I always encourage administrators to use or create a special "owner" profile to own all of our production objects/ For example, instead of the Distribution application programs and files being owned by a conglomeration of programmers and other IT people, ...
*SECOFR User Class does not make for a Powerful User
... are *SECOFR, *SECADM, *SYSOPR, *PGMR or *USER . The Security Officer( *SECOFR ) user class does..., *SYSOPR, *PGMR or *USER . The Security Officer( *SECOFR ) user class does not make the user powerful... the ...
QIBM_QDB_OPEN Exit Point Abuse
" security " software package that was calling a license check CL program every time every file... from a security and auditing perspective, but if you are going to add an exit ...
Detecting Access to your Sensitive Database Files
Do you know if your system users are accessing files that are outside their scope of responsibility? You can journal those sensitive files and report on who has made changes to the records, but it's a bit different if you want to know who looked at the fi ...
Query/400 Profile Options and the SETQRYPRFO Command
... calls for consideration both in terms of operational and security aspects. In order to address some of these requirements Query/400 ...