Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 1.13.0 and QRadar SIEM 7.0 has become generally available on July 31, 2012.   This integration allows sending z/OS, RACF, ACF2, Top Secret, DB2, and CICS events from the System Management Facilities (SMF) log to QRadar SIEM. zSecure Audit enriches the event data with information from the security database and system snapshot (CKFREEZE) information.   QRadar SIEM   QRadar SIEM is a next-generation Security Information and Event Management solution by Q1 Labs . It... [More]

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Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 2.1 and IBM InfoSphere Guardium 9.1 is set to be available on October 25, 2013. zSecure Audit analyzes the protection of DB2 objects by RACF and internal security and makes these available to Guardium. Guardium includes new entitlement reports and delivers over 60 new vulnerability tests. Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential business production applications in many organizations due to the strong... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure suite 2.1.1 was announced on July 15, 2014, including a new product IBM Security zSecure Adapters for QRadar SIEM (5655-AD8), with a planned availability date of September 5, 2014. You can read the US announcement letter here .   IBM Security QRadar SIEM consolidates log source event data from thousands of devices endpoints and applications distributed throughout a network. It normalizes information from many Log Sources through Device Support Modules (DSMs),... [More]

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On June 13, 2014 IBM  CICS  Tra nsac tion  Ser ver  for  z/OS  V5. 2 has become generally available. A service stream enhancement (SSE) to IB M   Se c u ri t y  z S e cu r e   2 . 1 provided currency support on June 14, 2014. This SSE furthermore extends the zSecure Audit Compliance Testing Framework with additional DISA-STIG support and provides a number of usability enhancements. Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential  business production... [More]

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On April 7, 2014 IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.2 has been announced with a planned availability date of June 13, 2014. This release includes support for stronger cryptographic ciphers per Special Publication 800-131A from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A service stream enhancement (SSE) to IBM  Secu rity  zSe cure  2. 1 is planned for the same date. Besides providing support for this new CICS release the SSE will also further enhance the zSecure Compliance... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 originally shipped before z/VM V6R3 was available. If you are planning to upgrade your z/VM release level to z/VM V6R3, take note of the following available maintenance: * PTF UV61210 for APAR VM64434 ships toleration support for z/VM V6R3. Among other things, this prevents message CKV0157 ("Unsupported VM release..."). * PTF UV61204 for APAR VM65404 ships toleration support for the changed response from CP QUERY PATHS due to new function... [More]

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New Information Management releases DB2  11 f or z /O S and IMS 13 have become available on October 25, 2013. Related updates to IBM  Secu rity  zSe cure  2. 1 providing currency support for these releases have become available on November 8, 2013. New DB2 objects (global variables or SYSVARIABLES) and security controls are collected and reported on, as well as new IMS exits. Furthermore, new selection capabilities in zSecure Collect allow you to be specific as to the DB2 objects that you want to collect.  ... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure 2.1 was co-announced with z/OS V2R1 on July 23, 2013 and became generally available on September 6, 2013. On October 1, 2013 IBM has announced a number of new product releases in the information management area with a planned availability date of October 25, 2013, including IBM DB2 11 for z/OS , IBM Information Management System (IMS) 13 , and IBM InfoSphere Guardium 9.1 . The Vulnerability Assessment module of IBM InfoSphere Guardium 9.1 will... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure 2.1 has become generally available on 09/06/2013. You can read the US announcement letter here .   Notable features include: * a user interface to ease rule-based compliance reporting against standards such as DISA-STIG (the Security Technical Implementation Guide from the Defense Information Systems Agency) and GSD331/ISeC (a global services document with security controls documentation from IBM). *automatic collection of DB2 catalog resource data including databases, table spaces, storage groups, sequences,... [More]

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Hi, all,   on April 9th the new product IBM Automation Control for z/OS was announced. This product has enhanced the Tivoli System Automation family with a product focused on helping smaller zEnterprise customers.  The IBM Automation Control for z/OS (IACz) product is targeted at single System z customers looking to move from manual scripting to policy based automation.     IBM Automation Control for z/OS provides:  Goal-oriented and policy-based design reduces the need for user scripts Start, stop, monitor and recover z/OS applications and... [More]

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Integration between IBM Security zSecure Alert and QRadar SIEM 7 has become generally available on December 19, 2012.   This integration allows forwarding real-time alerts from zSecure Alert to QRadar SIEM through the syslog protocol.   zSecure Alert zSecure Alert is the real-time monitor component of the zSecure suite. It can correlate events and send out real-time alerts through e-mail, text message, Write To Operator console messages, SNMP traps, or syslog receiver events. It also integrates capabilities for data analysis and enrichment that... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure 1.13.1 has become generally available on 10/26/2012.   Notable features include: * automatically detecting active DB2 regions and reporting on those, with a focus on tables, views, plans, and packages, analyzing both RACF and DB2 internal security * comparison capabilities throughout the UI to highlight differences between databases and system snapshots * ability to define security standards and report compliance with regards to those * enhancements to the zSecure Admin Access Monitor component, allowing... [More]

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An updated version of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring/OMEGAMON XE for CICS plug-in for the CICS Explorer is now available for download from the ISM Library site IBM Tivoli Monitoring Eclipse plug-in on ISM Library This plug-in provides the ability to view OMEGAMON XE data in Eclipse. This allows OMEGAMON gathered data to be viewed in conjunction with data from other Eclipse-based applications such as CICS Explorer. This version of the plug-in displays most Tivoli monitoring systems and their on-line status, and displays OMEGAMON monitoring... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 has become generally available on June 15, 2012.   Notable features include: * coverage of minidisks and real devices in dedicated new report types VM_MDISK and VM_DEV, available from menu options RE.V.M and RE.V.RD. * exploitation of a security API provided in z/VM V6R2 by RACF, which adds a number of reports and options that were only available under z/OS before, e.g.    - substantial extensions to menu option AU.S - RACF control: many new and enhanced reports on RACF security... [More]

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