Security and Compliance Automation

The XML profiles automate the recommended system configuration to be consistent with the Payment Card Data Security Standard, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the U.S. Department of Defense UNIX Security Technical Implementation Guide, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks compliance for AIX®, and IBM® i best practices. The organizations that comply with the security standards must use the predefined system security settings.

To use the security compliance feature, the PowerSC application must be installed on the AIX managed systems that conform to the compliance standards. .

The PowerSC installation package must be installed on AIX managed systems. The installation package installs the powerscStd.ice fileset that can be implemented on the system by using the pscxpert command. PowerSC with IBM Compliance Expert Express (ICEE) compliance is enabled to manage and improve the XML profiles.

Note: Install all applications on the system before you apply a security profile.