RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of monitoring, notification, and security solutions for System i, AIX, and Linux, announced today the addition of a graphical user interface to its object-based StandGuard Network Security 3.0. Recognizing the evolution of System i and the needs of administrators, Bytware last year rebuilt StandGuard Network Security with an object-based approach and has now enhanced this latest version with a graphical user interface that offers additional ease-of-use and reporting capabilities unique to a windowed environment.

Along with the features available through the green screen, additional features provided by the new GUI include: a robust event viewer; a new time-saving browser; export capabilities to enhance analysis of security data; and the ability to search and filter SQL statements, providing users with a new method for studying security on their system.

The new browse feature allows administrators to add users, IFS objects, database objects, programs, and commands using existing lists on the system, significantly cutting the time required to establish and maintain security policies.

Through the new event viewer users can reorder columns, set display colors, leverage advanced search technology, and export events in either CSV or TXT format. StandGuard Network Security’s export capabilities give System i administrators the ability to target specific events and analyze them more thoroughly, enhancing the effectiveness of security and aiding in investigation and regulatory compliance.

“We are very excited to be launching a graphical user interface for StandGuard Network Security that mirrors all the features accessible through our green-screen interface, as well as expanding further our extensive reporting and exit point security functionality, and multiple system management,” said Bytware President Christine Grant.

StandGuard Network Security is an object-based network and exit point security solution that is consistent with i5/OS object security design, providing a supplemental layer of public and private authorities to resources on System i. Its object-based approach reduces the time and effort required to create and manage authorities, reduces configuration errors, and provides a more usable audit trail compared to inferior, transaction-based designs.

The new StandGuard Network Security GUI is available now and is free of charge to existing StandGuard Network Security customers. To upgrade, contact Bytware at 800.932.5557. Comprehensive information about StandGuard Network Security and free trials are available on Bytware’s website at www.bytware.com.

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of monitoring, notification, and security solutions for System i, AIX, and Linux, announced today new enhancements to its MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole solutions that make it easier than ever to automate monitoring and notification to cell phones worldwide.
These new enhancements to the company’s popular systems management solutions put the power of GSM and SMS protocols into the hands of System i administrators, allowing simple and quick wireless distribution of messages to any cell phone in the world without the need for a paging provider, phone lines, or modems. Messages are received anywhere across the globe in seconds.”This update to Messenger acknowledges the change in how our customers communicate,” says Bytware CEO Michael Grant. “Today everybody carries cell phones or Blackberries, not pagers. With this enhancement, MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole can be used as a real company-wide text messaging system. We’ve cut the strings for System i.”

In addition to enabling easier wireless messaging, the GSM/SMS enhancements also eliminate the compatibility issues that can affect international users. In many areas of the world, variations in phone service can make it difficult to successfully set up automated notification to mobile devices. By sending messages phone-to-phone using standardized text-messaging protocols, Messenger now eliminates these issues. All that is needed is a number and a phone capable of receiving a text message. The receiving device does not even need to have GSM or SMS capabilities.

MessengerPlus and MessengerConsole with enhanced GSM/SMS features are available now. Comprehensive information about Messenger and free trials are available on Bytware’s website at www.bytware.com or by calling 800.932.5557.

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of monitoring, notification, and security solutions for System i, AIX, and Linux, announced today the official release of the newest addition to the StandGuard Security Suite, StandGuard Network Security 3.0. This new version of the company’s popular network security solution represents a major rewrite and utilizes an object-based design that is consistent with OS/400 object security. Building upon the OS/400 design, StandGuard Network Security 3.0 provides a supplemental layer of public and private authorities to resources on your System i server.

An object-based approach to security reduces the time and effort required to create and manage authorities, reduces configuration errors, and provides a more usable audit trail compared to inferior, transaction-based designs. As Bytware CEO Michael Grant points out:

“Transaction-based security is time-intensive and prone to error. A big problem with the transaction security model is that any slight change to a previously ‘memorized’ transaction will result in a mismatch between what has been memorized and what is occurring. This requires constant review and adjustment to keep your access authorities working.”

The object-based security design of StandGuard Network Security 3.0 solves these problems by looking at the transactions and breaking them into the objects that are being accessed. Variations in the transactions such as upper/lower case or small differences in the SQL statement do not matter. The objects will remain the same and no reviewing is necessary.

StandGuard Network Security 3.0 is available now and works with i5/OS V5R3 and V5R4, and uses newer V5R3 exit point technology to implement true object-based security for SQL statements without parsing or memorizing every statement.

Additional features in StandGuard Network Security include: protection for all i5/OS exit points; support for public and private authorities; extensive reporting features with more that 16 different reports; automatic product updating; and a non-intrusive phased-in implementation.

Comprehensive information about StandGuard Network Security and free trials are available on Bytware’s website at http://www.bytware.com/products/ns/ or by calling 800.932.5557.