Simplify Management of IT Security and Compliance with IBM PowerSC in Cloud and Virtualized Environments

An IBM Redbooks publication

Published 07 September 2019

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ISBN-10: 0738457973
ISBN-13: 9780738457970
IBM Form #: SG24-8082-01
(322 pages)

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Authors: Dino Quintero, Faraz Ahmad, Stephen Dominguez, David Pontes, Cesar Rodriguez

Abstract

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a security and compliance solution that is optimized for virtualized environments on IBM Power Systems™ servers, running IBM PowerVM® and IBM AIX®. Security control and compliance are some of the key components that are needed to defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving new threats. The IBM business-driven approach to enterprise security that is used with solutions, such as IBM PowerSC™, makes IBM the premier security vendor in the market today.

The book explores, tests, and documents scenarios using IBM PowerSC that leverage IBM Power Systems servers architecture and software solutions from IBM to help defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving new threats.

This publication helps IT and Security managers, architects, and consultants to strengthen their security and compliance posture in a virtualized environment running IBM PowerVM.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. IT security and Compliance Management
Chapter 2. IBM PowerSC GUI Server
Chapter 3. Compliance automation
Chapter 4. Real-Time File Integrity Monitoring
Chapter 5. PowerSC Trusted Network Connect and Patch Management v1.2.0.0
Chapter 6. Trusted Logging
Chapter 7. Trusted Boot
Chapter 8. Trusted Firewall
Appendix A. Trusted Firewall addendum

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