Security in IT systems today is a two-pronged problem. On one hand, there's the security itself: a single compromised system can cost a company millions of dollars and untold lost customers, along with the persistent possibility of legal troubles. On the other, even if you are secure, you have to be able to prove it to regulatory bodies or else risk fines or loss of business. IBM seeks to address both of these challenges at once with its IBM PowerSC security solution for their AIX Power7 systems.
Creating Security
The IBM PowerSC system takes an innovative approach to system security with their "Trusted Boot" procedures. Most of these sorts of systems scan for malicious threats, a process which is necessarily always one step behind those creating the threats, and therefore inherently vulnerable. The IBM PowerSC approach is to instead store a signed and encoded version of each secured system and then looks for changes at boot up.
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