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Managing User Profiles for Security Compliance

MC Press Online

by Carol Woodbury
14 Oct 2005

 

Keeping track of how user profiles get created is certainly no fun and definitely difficult at times, but it's required to maintain compliance with your security policy and to keep your auditors happy. SkyView Policy Minder for OS/400 and i5/OS can ease the burden of tracking the details of how profiles have been created. One feature of this new product is the ability to create user profile "templates." These templates allow you to define the profile configuration criteria that you are interested in when it comes to managing compliance. Let's look at some examples.

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About the author
Carol Woodbury is co-founder of SkyView Partners, Inc., a firm specializing in security compliance management and assessment software as well as security services. Carol is the former chief security architect for AS/400 for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota, and has specialized in security architecture, design, and consulting for more than 15 years. Carol speaks around the world on a variety of security topics and is coauthor of the book Experts' Guide to OS/400 and i5/OS Security.