Safe & Secure 3.6 IR 1

Safe & Secure version 3.6 IR 1 is out! It's packed full of new features. Find out more and download it by visiting the Downloads area.

RealTime Monitor

Locum is pleased to announce a partnership agreement with Unisys to develop and market Locum RealTime Monitor.

Under the agreement, Locum RealTime Monitor has been significantly enhanced to become a flexible, fully-featured monitoring tool. This release introduces RealTime Config, a PC-based Unisys SecurityCenter snap-in which enables you to control every aspect of monitoring your ClearPath MCP systems, from the designation of security and system events as alerts, to the ability to specify severity and routing information.

You can choose to display or forward alerts and even set threshold levels for alert volume, so that when those levels are breached, you can be emailed automatically to notify you of potential problems.

RealTime Monitor can display alerts from one or multiple ClearPath MCP systems. You can customize the display so that alerts are shown in the way you want to see them and an optional dial display can tell you at a glance the number of alerts being generated.

Locum RealTime Monitor is integrated with Unisys SecurityCenter. You can use it to connect to licensed and unlicensed systems as often as you like, for as long as you like. However, when connecting to an unlicensed system, no further reconfiguration is possible; when connecting to a licensed system full reconfiguration capabilities are allowed.

To evaluate the full functionality of RealTime Monitor, contact your Unisys account manager for a Locum RealTime Monitor ‘try and buy’ license key. Find out more by visiting the Locum RealTime Monitor page.

SecureAudit

Locum is pleased to announce a partnership agreement with Unisys to develop and market Locum SecureAudit.

Under the agreement, SECURE has been significantly enhanced to become a flexible, fully-featured auditors’ tool. This release introduces SecureAudit Client, a PC-based program which interacts with SECURE in the MCP environment.

Using SecureAudit Client, the Auditor and/or Security Administrator can request retrospective reports of security events in the MCP environment, and retrieve the information to the Client’s database. The data in the database may be presented in a variety of ways: as statistics, detailed data, graphical and correlation reports.

Reports may be exported and imported between SecureAudit databases, and also exported as .csv files.

If you are already licensed for SECURE, SecureAudit is free of charge, and SIMPLEINSTALL will install the appropriate software in the host MCP environment. SecureAudit Client may be installed on your PC from its own installation package.

Locum SecureAudit Client is fully integrated with Unisys’s SecurityCenter product, but can also be run as a standalone executable. Find out more and download it by visiting the Secure page.

SafeSurvey Client

The new version of SafeSurvey comes in two parts: the Host, which runs on MCP systems, and the Client, which runs on PCs. SafeSurvey Client provides a great new user-friendly means of scanning your systems and producing reports. The reports are dynamic, very easy to read, and allow you to produce graphs. Find out more and download it by visiting the SafeSurvey page.

Full Releases

3.6 IR 1

The latest version of Safe & Secure was released on the 12th of January 2009. It is qualified against MCP53.1. Features include:

• New software product - SecureAudit: provides a new Windows-based interface for Secure.
• General: Password Validation Options have been enhanced to provide further control over password structure. Alphabetic characters have been renamed ‘Uppercase Characters’, and a new category ‘Lowercase Characters’ has been added. The settings of each of the four categories (numeric, special, uppercase and lowercase characters) are consolidated into tri-state options (ALLOW, DISALLOW, ENFORCE) for more intuitive ease-of-use. The password generation function has also been enhanced to take account of the password structure policies.
• This release is compatible with the new MCP 53.1 implementation of case-sensitive passwords (SECOPT CaseSensitivePW), in that passwords input to Safe & Secure will require or not require quotes, depending on the setting of the new option.
• Industry-standard encryption has been implemented on messages sent and received by the AdminDesk, AdminSock and UserSock interfaces of SafeLib. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) 128-bit encryption is available as an alternative to Locum’s proprietary hashing, which remains the default, and can be set via the Global Connection Properties dialog of AdminDesk.
• For easier checking of Safe & Secure’s installation and identification of associated problems, an Installation Troubleshooter function is implemented within AdminDesk. Within Safe, it is called Verify Installation and is available in the Install module.
• The Sentry User Interface API has a new function called Admin Inquire Usercode. This allows an administrator program to interrogate the Identity, Email and Userverification text attributes of a user.
• AdminDesk: For easier handling and improved diagnostics, Summary Text is now included in Userdatafiles and Safe & Secure dump files via a new file attribute called Locum_Summary.
• The new Socket Availability function, accessed via the ‘Socket Availability’ button of the SafeLib Configuration dialog, allows the administrator to check how many interfaces tasks have been open simultaneously, and how few have been available, in order to determine whether there are sufficient configured tasks to meet demand.
• Reporting: A new report is now available via SECURE; the Usercode Validation Report allows the auditing of usercode validations and, if relevant, the assignment of the validated usercode to running tasks.
• Many more fixes and new features: see the What's New file for more information.

Click here to download SAFE & SECURE v. 3.6 IR 1.

Enhancements

Censor v. 3.6.1148

Updates to case sensitive password validation and paging after password verification. Now recognises new machine types such as the Libra 450.

SafeLib v. 3.6.0536

Fixes a problem handling expired passwords validated via UserSock. Also minor fixes and updates, including handling of max length passwords, new search conditions, Major/Minor Alerting, creation of quoted usercodes in the Cfile, special characters in logon. Now recognises new machine types such as the Libra 450.

SafeSurvey Host v. 12.36.0192

Updates to the logon and password change mechanism, checking for Cfile duplication, licence key checking. Implements new password validation options. Now recognises new machine types such as the Libra 450.

Secure v. 3.6.0638

Hyphenated user names are now allowed when inputting usercode and accesscode names. Also a fix for a minor RealTime Monitor problem and a couple of changes to extend SecureAudit functionality. Secure now recognises new userdata log records and also two new MCS violation errors. Now recognises new machine types such as the Libra 450.

Sentry v. 3.6.1142

Fixes to invalid logons. Also minor fixes and updates, including to Sentry Validate, Sentry Checker and Usersock Validate. Now recognises new machine types such as the Libra 450.

Simpleinstall v. 3.6.1148

Fixes a problem with blank fields in BNA Chain. Now recognises new machine types such as the Libra 450.

DIR v. 3.6.0214

Minor fix for a potential syntax error in a generated copy job. Updated list of recognised machines.

AdminDesk v. 3.6.0542

Fixes and updates including to passwords and searches, Logon Investigation, Major/Minor Alerting.

UserSock v. 3.6.0542

Minor fixes and updates.

Chain v. 3.6.1139

When logging information relating to a Host system, the IP address of the host is now included alongside the hostname. New password Validation options have been added to Security Policy.

Safe v. 3.6.1140

Fixes a problem with delegated PU users and users with granulated privileges. Improves handling and control of passwords. Updated list of recognised machines.

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