Monthly Archives: April 2016

You may have heard that IBM included an interesting new security-related enhancement in the V7.3 release. Called authority collection, it provides information intended to help security administrators minimize the amount of authority to objects granted to users on a system.

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“Security by obscurity” means relying on lack of knowledge of how a thing is protected as the sole means of preventing unauthorized access to that thing. There’s been a debate going on over at the Midrange-L discussion forum about the efficacy of this … Continue reading

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