This is a good time to be in the security software market, and Bsafe Information Systems knows it. With new laws like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, and Basel II forcing companies to lock down their servers and the information they safeguard, Bsafe is angling for more business by building out its worldwide network of resellers and tech support centers, and by continuing the development of its OS/400 security product, Bsafe Enterprise Security, which is slated to ship at version 4.0 later this month.

The company says version 4.0, which is currently in managed availability, is a completely new product compared with

SkyView Partners is gearing up for the launch of Policy Minder, a new tool for determining if an OS/400 server is configured according to a user’s own security policy, an important element in regulatory compliance. There are many products on the market designed to apply best practices to OS/400 security, including SkyView’s own Risk Assessor. The new Policy Minder tool augments these tools by enforcing procedures an organization has laid out as the security policy component of a compliance initiative.

One of the very first tasks OS/400 shops face as part of a regulatory compliance project is to define a

In 2003, Bytware helped uncover the misconceptions of iSeries security impenetrability and virus immunity with StandGuard Anti-Virus, which eradicates Windows viruses that can infect the iSeries’ Integrated File System (IFS). As one might expect, a similar threat exists for Linux worms and viruses to infect the IFS. Although there is not nearly the volume of malware for Linux as there is for Windows, iSeries shops now have a means to protect themselves through StandGuard Anti-Virus for Linux, which becomes available this month.

The iSeries has a remarkable, and well-deserved, reputation as an extremely secure computer platform on which to conduct

Most people won’t give you an argument when it comes to reducing IT complexity. Making use of technology to increase productivity, decrease risks, and lower costs is everyone’s goal, but in many instances, complexity is produced as a byproduct. A good example of reduced complexity can be found in the high availability (HA) software business. Vendors there have been focused on the C-word, and that’s why one of them, Lakeview Technology, is crowing about product enhancements it plans to make available in November.

Lakeview’s high availability product lineup is called MIMIX and it comes in two flavors: MIMIX ha1