Help/Systems has released Robot/SECURITY, a new i5/OS security monitoring and auditing package that combines five tools in one package. (UK distributor, eveLogic.)

Profile Exchange authorises users to assume the authority of another user profile temporarily. Administrators define alternate user profiles that are assigned special authorities. When users need a different authority level, they can exchange to an alternate user profile, assume the necessary authority, complete their tasks, then return to their standard authority level.

Exit Point Monitoring controls who is allowed to access the System i through server exit points. Robot/SECURITY monitors selected exit points and helps control access to the system. Users define which exit points to control and the level of management needed.

The package’s Security Audit checks system security settings and compares them to industry best practices. Users can audit system value settings, user profiles, network attributes, servers, libraries, files, commands, programs, directories and other objects for proper private and public authorities, and set authority policies for their company.

QAUDJRN Monitoring provides real-time monitoring of the security audit journal. Robot/SECURITY monitors for authority failures, user profile changes, invalid password attempts and system value changes, and notifies the user when potential security problems occur.

A new Forensics Analysis utility is a PC tool that consolidates data from several sources, including Robot/SECURITY profile exchange and exit point monitoring, the system audit journal (QAUDJRN), the system history log (QHST), QSYSOPR and other message queues, and other Help/Systems products, to help users research system security activity by user, job, or date.

Seamus Quinn