Automate operational activities to proactively reduce security risk and accelerate threat remediation
IBM Concert Protect
IBM's ongoing innovation and future enhancements for application vulnerability management and remediation will be delivered through IBM Concert Protect
Withdrawal from Marketing announcement for IBM WebSphere Automation
IBM intends to transition WebSphere Automation towards a more strategic offering. Support and security fixes will be provided per the program’s published support lifecycle policies.
Overview
Automate IBM® WebSphere® operational activities to proactively reduce security risk and accelerate threat remediation. Remove labor-intensive manual work to ensure continuous security compliance with automated vulnerability assessment, tracking and remediation.
Feature walkthrough
Explore how WebSphere Automation helps administrators understand and maintain WebSphere security more efficiently.
WebSphere Automation dashboard
Monitor your WebSphere inventory and see overall real-time security posture, patch status, and notifications at a glance. WebSphere Automation works with traditional WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Liberty.
Filter by CVE
Let’s start by filtering the view by common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE).
Filter servers by vulnerabilities
Filter the dashboard to exclusively view servers that have corresponding CVE(s).
Filter by CVE results
Two servers with different levels of risk have been identified as affected by the CVE that you selected. Now, let’s look at the applied iFixes for the first affected server on the list.
View applied fixes
View the list of iFixes that have been applied to a server, consolidated on a single screen, in this case for WebSphere name01.
View server details
This screen gives access to detailed information for specific servers.
Server details
Here the operator can see the WebSphere and JDK versions as well as all of the applied iFixes and relevant CVE(s) for this server, which is at a high risk level today.
Security alerts
The security alerts tab provides immediate and consolidated access to critical information that is fundamental to maintaining secure operations.
View all security alerts
On this screen, each CVE is ranked by risk level and shown with the corresponding affected servers so that the highest risks and their impact are listed at the top, ready for resolution.
Affected servers
Two servers in this screen have been identified as impacted by this CVE and labeled with the appropriate risk level.
View affected servers
The dashboard is now filtered to show servers that have been identified as affected by that specific vulnerability.
Use cases
An accurate, single source of truth across deployment environments. Track all your WAS and Liberty servers from a consolidated dashboard.
An accurate, single source of truth across deployment environments. Track all your WAS and Liberty servers from a consolidated dashboard.