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Security

Develop a way to signon via QSECOFR account with a password less solution for ACS, Console and web-based applications.

This is To Comply with Audit requirement to enforce all Privilege Access accounts to move away from visible Passwords .
3 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Add auditing to successful authentications

IBM i records failed authentications, which appear in the audit journal entries, but is missing a unified entry type for successful authentications. From an auditing perspective, this makes it hard to comprehensively track and report on successful...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

Post-Quantum Cryptography

Add to DCM the possibility of Post-Quantum Cryptography and also update version of OPENSSL to 3.50 for use it
7 months ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

Notify when DCM certificate is near to expire

The improved DCM tool, like its predecessor, does not have notification functionality a few days before certificates expire. It would be very helpful if you can notify us via email or at least in QSYSOPR and set how many days in advance we want yo...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

V7R1 should support newer SSL Ciphers

Cryptographic support on V7R1 should support the newer SSL Ciphers that V7R2 and up also have. V7R1 is still a supported OS and since most trading partners are updating the SSL certificates that use updated Ciphers, it means that the clients using...
over 9 years ago in IBM i / Security Not under consideration

Upgrade level of OpenSSH from v9.6p1 to one which will pass scanning services.

IBM i: Qualys is dinging us for OpenSSH ssh Function Vulnerability (CVE-2025-61984) Opened up a case with IBM . The reply to the case was: This vulnerability was discovered fairly recently and has low (3.6 base) score on the X-Force Exchange site....
5 months ago in IBM i / Security Submitted

Audit log for new DCM activity

New DCM is a integrated web application server (IAS) and there is no mechanism to track/audit DCM activity. Use Case: The old DCM GUI can create a custom log but in the new DCM gui not is possible.
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Security Future consideration

Enable TR-31 Import / Export of AES K0-B and K1-B Key Blocks for 4767/4769 crypto cards

For important bank compliance with MasterCard, we need use to TR-31 KEY EXPORTER in KEK value with mode of use BThe used parameters are:Key block version: VARDRV‑BValue of use: KEKMode of use: ENC-DEC In the APAR OA64883 was published for Z series...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Security Functionality already exists

Tcp server certificate hot reload

A few days ago I read an article reporting the future intention to go to decrease the duration of certificates, it would be important to make sure that the application of such certificates would not require the shutdown and subsequent activation o...
11 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

Issue audit journal entry when Password Level 4 hash is generated at signon.

For high availability replication products, knowledge is needed when a user profile changes. In most cases an audit journal entry is issued. However, when both the source and target systems are at OS 7.5 or 7.6 and a user profile does not yet have...
8 months ago in IBM i / Security Under review

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