SkyView Partners has just announced SkyView Audit Journal Reporter for IBM i and i5/OS, a new reporting tool that generates pre-configured reports in a variety of formats from events logged in the audit journal.

Audit Journal Reporter includes more than 25 pre-configured, ready-to-run, reports and generates them based on the information from the events logged in the audit journal. It delivers them in PDF, spooled file, CSV, XLS or outfile format. Reports cover a number of areas including:

• Invalid sign on attempts
• Changes to auditing values
• Creation of user profiles
• Commands run by a particular user
• Sign-on activity
• Issues related to moving to security level 40

“Early this year we surveyed our "Coffee with Carol" webinar attendees about how they get compliance information from the audit journal,” says John Vanderwall, SkyView Partners chief operating officer. “We expected to find that a lot of people were using a commercial software package. While some people are using a reporting tool, we were surprised to find that a large number of people are still writing custom queries to pull information from the audit journal. After exploring the reasons behind this method of obtaining information from the audit journal, we saw a real need for a new, up-to-date product that focuses on the compliance information auditors are requesting that resides in the audit journal."

“We spent a lot of time researching the types of reports that customers need," says Carol Woodbury, SkyView Partners president. We listened carefully and are responding by delivering a customized product tailored to answer the questions that we see the auditors asking,” she says. "It’s been a long time since a new audit journal reporting tool has been introduced into the market. A lot has changed over the years. Many new events are now being logged and new fields added to audit entries since the last audit product was introduced many years (and IBM i releases) ago. In addition, compliance is now a driving force when it comes to security configuration and administration. Compliance has changed the type of information that companies need to provide to auditors and at the same time auditors have become more savvy about the IBM i information that they are requesting.”

“With SkyView Audit Journal Reporter, we’ve taken our expertise and eight years of customer experience and created a fresh look at all the information kept in the audit journal,” says Vanderwall. “This product will be sold both as a stand-alone solution and as part of our SkyView IBM i Security Compliance Solution that comes complete with installation and configuration included in the price.”

General availability release of the new product is set for October 31. The price of SkyView Audit Journal Reporter will be based on processor group and will range from $2,495 to $6,250.

About SkyView Partners

SkyView Partners, Inc. is a security specialty firm working with IBM AS/400, iSeries and System i customers and Business Partners to architect and implement sound security policies and practices for IBM i and i5/OS. SkyView Partners' product development and technical services are led by Carol Woodbury, former Chief Engineering Manager and Security Architect for the IBM iSeries product line.  SkyView Partners is committed to providing clients with products and services that save time, reduce costs and simplify the management of security compliance. To learn more, visit the SkyView Partners website at www.skyviewpartners.com.

SkyView Partners is dedicated to providing software to help you solve your security compliance and policy issues. SkyView Partners was founded by John Vanderwall and Carol Woodbury. Prior to forming the partnership with Woodbury to focus on developing a security practice, Vanderwall most recently spent several years as a founder of the software division of an AS/400 security firm and served as vice president of sales and marketing. Woodbury worked for 16 years with IBM in Rochester, Minn., and served for more than 10 years as the AS/400 Security Architect and Chief Engineering Manager of Security Technology for IBM's Enterprise Server Group. During this time, Woodbury provided security architecture and design consultations with IBM Business Partners and large AS/400 customers. She is known worldwide as an author and speaker on security technology, specializing in i5/OS and IBM i security issues. Woodbury has published her third book, IBM i and i5/OS Security & Compliance: A Practical Guide from 29th Street Press, has written numerous articles on security, and is a contributing author on security for MCPress Online and other IBM midrange publishers.

Find out whether your system's security configuration is in compliance with your security policies with SkyView Policy Minder. Find out your system's vulnerabilities lie, receive an explanation of the issues and suggestions on where to start with SkyView Risk Assessor. Generate the audit reports you need for security and compliance without having to understand the complexities of the IBM i audit journal with SkyView Audit Journal Reporter . Let SkyView Partners' Support Team install and configure SkyView products and schedule your automated security compliance reports through the SkyView IBM i Security Compliance Solution.