Product News:
New version of PeekPlus now availablePeekPlus, the long-trusted tool that allows monitoring of and interacting with users in real time, has been updated to version 3.5. The new version adds V5R4 compatibility. PeekPlus provides the ability to view activity on a user’s screen up to the last keystroke to enhance training, catch potential errors, and audit users without impacting or reducing their performance. Security investigations can also be enhanced with PeekPlus by monitoring user activity in suspicious situations. All of this and more is possible with PeekPlus. Learn more about PeekPlus.

Support News:
Bytware Support Forums and Information Database
The all-new Support Forums are becoming a popular source for interaction with our technical support specialists. If you have not already visited the forums, check them out today. You can get the latest information and assistance for your Bytware solutions and view items of interest specific to the product for which you have current support. You can also access technical tips and user guides, and even submit support requests and receive online responses from our expert technical support specialists. To gain exclusive access to the new Support Forums, just visit this link and follow the instructions to register.

Company News:
Bytware recognized with two Summit Creative Awards
The Summit International Awards has honored Bytware in the 2007 Summit Creative Awards competition. Bytware’s set of iconic product logos received the Bronze Summit Award and the original music composed for Café Bytware’s interactive presentations received the Silver Summit Award. Over the course of fourteen years, the Summit International Awards has established itself as one of the premier arbiters of creative excellence. Using rigorous evaluative criteria and top international judges, this unique competition evaluates work based on the strength of the idea, the quality of execution, and the work’s ability to persuade. Bytware also received two Summit Creative Awards in 2006 for the Object Integrity Famous Quotes print advertising campaign. View the winning work online.

Promotion Winners:
20 System i users claim free PeekPlus licenses
Congratulations to the following companies who received free PeekPlus licenses in our recent “Bytware 20/20″ promotion: Amsterdam Printing, Continental Commercial Products, NCSEAA, Blue Sky Casino, Caremark, CDW, City of McKinney, Concordia Bank, DR Horton, FFE Transportation Services, Fresh Express, Glatfelters Insurance, Gold Toe Moretz, O’Reilly Auto Parks, Pinnacle Entertainment, Severn Trent Services, Workmens Insurance Group, Fredericks of Hollywood, Shamrock Foods, United South & Eastern Tribes. Bytware promotions give you a great opportunity to add award-winning software to your System i. Watch for the next promotion and bring home great solutions.

Virus News:
McAfee untangles results of anti-virus comparative test
On August 8, at LinuxWorld, start-up vendor Untangle performed an anti-virus comparative test pitting nine commercially available anti-virus solutions against its own ClamAV-based anti-virus solution. McAfee untangles the results to reveal serious flaws in the methodology used in this test. Read McAfee’s report online.

Virus News:
300,000-threat mark reached five months early
At the end of 2006, anti-virus software leader McAfee—whose engine powers StandGuard Anti-Virus—predicted that the number of viruses and malicious code threats would reach 300,000 by the end of 2007. It appears that their estimate was quite conservative. We’re already there. The 300,000 mark was passed on August 1, 2007, when the 5088 DAT weighed in with 300,450 threats. The latest release, DAT file 5106 dated August 27, 2007, lists the number of threats detected as 316,329. This is an alarming development as the predicted number came to pass a full five months early, a signal that the rate of virus proliferation is increasing at an ever faster pace.

Education:
An Objective Approach to Security (Free White Paper)
i5/OS may be famous for security, but it doesn’t go far enough in protecting your system’s data; it doesn’t differentiate how the data being accessed can be used. Therefore, it’s wise to supplement your security with third-party solutions that secure how data can be used with network applications. transaction security and how to overcome them. Download the free white paper.

Education:
The Modern Security Threat and Regulatory Compliance (Free White Paper)
The evolving threat from viruses is challenging the ability of IT management to keep up with security requirements and the ability of software developers to outsmart the criminals behind the code. As SOX-style legislation spreads to other countries, the international nature of today’s business world makes the challenge even greater. In this paper we examine the modern virus threat and how this threat can impact System i. In addition, we look at how management of the threat ties into the now all too familiar Sarbanes-Oxley law, as well as the emerging Japanese flavor of the same, known perhaps affectionately as J-SOX in its home country. With specific guidance from COBIT and NIST, this helpful resource can bring you up-to-date on the globalization of regulatory legislation and how best to mitigate the virus threat on your System i-based network. Download the free white paper.

Tech Tip:
Excluding an Object from being monitored
Do you need to know when a critical communications line is down? Messenger can monitor the Work with Configuration Status (WRKCFGSTS) display for lines, controllers, devices, and network interfaces for abnormal statuses. Here’s how… (Note: Your Support Central username and password are required to access this tip.)

Tech Tip:
Auditing unused User Profiles
User profiles are typically the central point of any security implementation because they identify a user’s authority to all functions and objects. By auditing user profiles, you can determine whether your security guidelines are being followed. It is recommended that you regularly produce and review an audit report for user profiles not being used. Here’s how… (Note: Your Support Central username and password are required to access this tip.)

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