Powertech Policy Minder for IBM i
Policy Minder automates security policy documentation and makes it easy to identify system values that are out of compliance.
Maintain Your IBM i Security Configuration
Automated security policy administration and compliance reporting:
Powertech Policy Minder for IBM i is a security administration tool that automates critical tasks and provides comprehensive security compliance reporting. By automating security administration, Policy Minder saves time and eliminates labor-intensive manual tasks usually required to administer the details of security. Policy Minder for IBM i features a graphical user interface (GUI) in addition to the traditional green screen.
Policy Minder provides an easy way to define your security policy on IBM i, whether you want to customize a security policy based on your organization's unique requirements or use a template based on cybersecurity best practices. Comparing your security policy to your system's current configuration is simple and automated. You can even schedule your policy checks so that they run automatically. The FixIt function automatically finds settings that are out of compliance and fixes them.
Policy Minder also includes robust reporting functionality to document:
Your policy settings
Items that are out of compliance with your policy
Changes made with the FixIt function
Administrative actions taken to configure Policy Minder
What Can Policy Minder for IBM i Do for My Organization?
Manage changes to authority settings on objects, libraries, directories, and authorization lists.
Eliminate the manual process of running reports, downloading information, and manually comparing lists.
Manage security policies on multiple systems via a single screen in an easy-to-use browser-based interface.
Ensure administrator tasks are accomplished on schedule, regardless of how busy administrators are.
Ensure consistent, accurate, and repeatable tasks that prove compliance.
Document policies, compensating controls, and risk acceptance statements.
Aid in the administration of user profiles.
Key Features:
Automatically document your security policy for use during audits. Automatically capture current server settings to define your security policy—a written statement of how your organization protects IT assets, which is required by many security mandates.
Identify configuration settings that are out of compliance with your security policy without any manual effort.
Generate reports that show only the exceptions to your security policy, so it's easy to focus on items that require attention. Save security administrators countless hours of manual data analysis and reporting. Policy Minder automatically compares security policies to actual server settings and its exception-based reports dramatically increase your productivity.
Manage compliance with your security policies on multiple systems from a single screen. Managing security policies and compliance with those policies on multiple systems becomes much easier on a single screen in a user-friendly, browser-based interface.
Use the Fix-It function to return out-of-compliance settings to their desired state. Automate the comparison of your security policy to your system's current security settings, and let your software automatically fix out-of-compliance items. This makes it easy to stay compliant with regualtory mandates like PCI DSS that require security settings to be checked regularly.
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