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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is increasingly becoming one of the more critical security requirements to comply with regulations such as PCI 8.3 and GDPR, as well as to provide superior safety measures over easily compromised single password methods. Any application that has access to the cardholder environment must include Multi-Factor Authentication, from legacy Pathway applications to the latest RESTful interfaces, effective MFA must be provided for tools and applications that have the potential to access these environments.

Multi-Factor authentication has become vital in ensuring secure access to systems. The new CSP Authenticator+ provides a RESTful interface to support multi-factor authenticated logins to NonStop systems.

For complimentary access to CSP-Wiki®, an extensive repository of NonStop security knowledge and best practices, please visit wiki.cspsecurity.com

XYPRO Participates in ISSA Thought Leadership Series: Cybersecurity risk is a share responsibility

As organizations increase the quantity and complexity of digital services they provide to their customers they are increasingly relying on partners, vendors and 3rd parties to support them.

This means that the old model of snapshot assessments is falling behind in providing the timely conversations needed in today’s dynamic environment where data sharing is assumed and partners are providing business critical services outside an organization’s infrastructure.

Join us to discuss how digital attack surfaces are expanding, what information is available to assess risk, the methodology on what makes up a score and where to use them, how to engage in constructive conversations with your partners and showcase results to leadership.

Moderator:
Ken Dunham

Speakers:
Vamsi Gullapalli, Product Team, RiskIQ
Steve Tcherchian, CISO, XYPRO Technology Corporation
Wayne Proctor, Vice President, Information Security, WestRock

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Many Enscribe users need to replicate their Enscribe data into external systems and environments, usually by converting the Enscribe information into standard SQL data structures and schemas. The HPE Shadowbase Data Definition Language Utility (SBDDLUTL) simplifies this process by providing a powerful interface to convert and map the Enscribe DDL data structures (records, fields) into their SQL equivalents (tables, columns). SBDDLUTL supports a variety of target SQL databases, including NonStop SQL/MP, NonStop SQL/MX, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Oracle MySQL, SAP HANA, and SAP Sybase. Typically, this manual process takes many hours to complete depending on the size of the Enscribe DDL definition. Instead, SBDDLUTL instantly flattens the definition, eliminating this error-prone effort. The SBDDLUTL feature is available as part of the HPE Shadowbase Data Management Utilities product bundle. For more information, please read our solution brief.

HPE Shadowbase Repair is a feature in the HPE Shadowbase Compare for SQL NonStop Utility to assist with correcting or repairing SQL/MP or SQL/MX database discrepancies between two tables. Shadowbase Repair works on any two tables in these databases, provided they are both of the same type (MP or MX). It does not require a Shadowbase replication configuration and can be used in any environment where a source and target table need to be verified. Repair is particularly useful in business continuity data replication environments to provide confidence (or certification) that the source and target data matches, and to repair the discrepancies when it does not. HPE Shadowbase Compare reports the discrepancies between two sets of SQL tables, which would be an error-prone and time-consuming task to correct if even only a handful of differences were found. With HPE Shadowbase Repair, the user can automatically and quickly correct these differences with just a few simple commands. For more information, please read our solution brief.

To speak with us about your data replication and data integration needs, please call us at +1.610.647.6250, or email us at SBProductManagement@gravic.com.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise directly sells and supports Shadowbase solutions under the name HPE Shadowbase. For more information, please contact your local HPE Shadowbase representative or visit our website.

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Dark fiber is a fiber-optic cable that has been installed in the ground but that remains dormant, available for future use. Cable installers often will lay more fiber lines than needed in order to control the costs of having to lay lines again and again. As fiber-optic networks grow more popular with industries requiring high bandwidth, scalability, reliability, near-zero latency, and enhanced security, some companies will lease unused strands of dark fiber cable to create their own private dark-fiber networks instead of competing for bandwidth on some carrier’s existing network.

“Using Dark Fiber” is one of several articles in recent issues of the Availability Digest. In addition to this story, read the articles below as well as others.

Writing Patent Applications – Digest Managing Editor Dr. Bill Highleyman received his first patent in 1959. Patent #2,978,675 – Character Recognition System. He went on to receive numerous other patents for function generators, data processing with controlled input, constant charge driving circuits, and so on. Bill has found over the years that many people interested in patenting their ideas never follow through out of fear that the application process will be too intimidating. Bill uses his own experiences to help individuals and small companies prepare patent applications. This article introduces the required formatting that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) expects of applications submitted.

Amazon Downed by Overload – Amazon’s Prime Day is an annual thirty-six-hour global shopping orgy offering heavily discounted merchandise to customers who are members of Amazon Prime, a paid subscription service. Prime Day is Amazon’s biggest non-holiday sales event, and this year it took place on July 16th. By the end of Prime Day 2018, over 100 million products had been purchased. One can only imagine how many more sales would have taken place if Amazon had not experienced multiple outages. The cause was insufficient server capacity to accommodate the millions of shoppers who attempted to access Amazon simultaneously.

Gatwick Airport Reverts to Whiteboards – Talk about “old school.” The U.K.’s Gatwick Airport was forced to communicate flight information via hand-drawn whiteboards after the airport’s automation systems went down. The problem was caused by a damaged fiber cable; and Gatwick officials blamed the outage on Vodaphone, which supplies the airport with IT support. Staff members used walkie-talkies to receive information, erasing and updating the whiteboards with the latest ‘live updated’ flight data as it changed. People crowded to see their gate numbers, but the huge crowds made it difficult for passengers to see. To help ease crowding, the whiteboards were accompanied by a projected Word document containing the gate information. However, sometimes the whiteboards and the Word displays did not match due to the staff having to shout the gate numbers across the concourse to each other.

In addition, The Availability Digest offers one-day and multi-day seminars on High Availability: Concepts and Practices. Seminars are given both onsite and online and are tailored to an organization’s specific needs. Popular seminars are devoted to achieving fast failover, the impact of redundancy on availability, basic availability concepts, and eliminating planned downtime.

The Digest provides a variety of technical writing, consulting, marketing, and seminar services. Individuals too busy to write articles themselves often hire us to ghostwrite. We also create white papers, case studies, technical manuals and specifications, RFPs, presentation slides, web content, press releases, advertisements, and so on.

Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at www.availabilitydigest.com. Please visit our Continuous Availability Forum on LinkedIn. We are at 804 members and counting. Follow us as well on Twitter @availabilitydig.

Tributary Systems’ Storage Director featured in CIO Magazine

By Glenn Garrahan, Director HPE Business, Tributary Systems

CIO Review’s 2018 Storage Special cover feature details and explains Tributary Systems’ flagship Storage Director Enterprise backup virtualization solution. Take a few moments to follow the links below to read this interesting and informative article and also peruse the entire issue. Not only will you come away with an excellent understanding of the Storage Director product, and what significant advantages it will bring to your backup/restore processes, but you’ll also gain a little insight on our CEO, Mr. Shawn Sabanayagam, and his background and interests.

https://storage.cioreview.com/vendor/2018/tributary_systems

https://magazine.cioreview.com/magazines/September2018/Storage/#page=1

As always, if you’d like additional information on Storage Director, visit www.tributary.com, or call Matt Allen at 817-786-3066 (office) or 713-492-7434 (cell).

Storage Director allows NonStop professionals to “augment what they have and use it in creative new ways!”

Visit the XYPRO events calendar to see where we will be and sign up for free webinars

CTUG 2018September 26, 2018 September 27, 2018Hewlett–Packard Enterprise Canada, 5150 Spectrum Way, Mississauga, Ontario Event Website >

MexTUG 2018October 4, 2018Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers - Mexico Event Website >

NonStop Technical Boot Camp 2018November 11, 2018 November 14, 2018Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport - Burlingame Event Website >

SunTUG – 2019 Sunshine Summit March 1 – 2, 2019

The DoubleTree by Hilton, Tampa, FL

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The Chinese are coming. Are Visa and Mastercard feeling nervous yet?

So the two real dominant players in the UK Card Scheme market are about to have their cage rattled. UnionPay of China whose cards are already accepted at merchants and ATMs across some 172 countries, are now planning to enter the Card Issuing market in the UK.

It is reported that the state-controlled group plans to partner with a UK company to issue virtual pre-paid cards for corporate clients travelling in the Far East. Travellers, pack your mobile.

UnionPay may look like a growing dominant player but they face strong competition in their home markets with the meteoric rise of AliPay and WeChatPay, and the move away from physical cards to mobile payment apps, where they do not share in a slice of the action.

OmniPayments is embracing this dynamic migration of payment tokens (Card/Mobile App) by accepting broad varieties of payment tokens and transaction types. The growing choice offered to consumers is driving down the revenues for Card processors who need more cost-effective and flexible platforms to meet their demanding market requirements.

Card Processors can no longer wait six months or more for their provider to bring new functionality to market. They need it now, which is where we come in.

OmniPayments provides the infrastructure today, both in cloud and on-prem to get your card business up and running in today’s market.

OmniPayments takes a 21^st century approach to payments. We recognise that modern systems require a number of key characteristics:

· Flexible APIs

· Rapid implementation times

· Robust Security

· Active/Active built-in

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