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Guardium enhancements for IBM i and Db2 for i

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Guardium enhancements for IBM i and DB2 for i

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The enhancements are:

  • IBM Security Guardium® V10 is a new and greatly improved version.
    To understand the full scope of enhancements within V10, read this article: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/se-guardium-v10/index.html
  • IBM Security Guardium® V10 contains a new offering for IBM i clients: Vulnerability Assessment (VA) support.
    VA with IBM i includes a comprehensive set of over 130 tests and entitlement reporting for IBM i  7.1 and later partitions. 
  • IBM Security Guardium® V10 Database Activity Monitor (DAM) includes improvements for the Db2 for i client:
    • Support for S-TAP load balancing (non-enterprise).
    • Encrypted traffic between S-TAP and collector.
    • Closer alignment with other UNIX S-TAPs.
  • Both DAM for V10 and V9 are improved to have:
    • Failover support for IBM i
    • Support for multiple policies (up to 9), with IBM i side configuration
    • Filtering improvements, with IBM i side configuration

Figure 1. Guardium V10 DAM & Db2 for i architecture

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Modified date:
21 January 2020

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