![]() It has also been certified for deployment atop VMware virtualization software, and has achieved VMware Ready status.Īttachmate also unveiled Reflection Suite for X 2011 R2, a new release of its X server product that gives users access to graphic-intensive X Windows applications that are commonly used in the manufacturing, chip design, oil exploration, healthcare, telecom, and finance industries. It also supports Office 2010 productivity features, such as the ribbon user interface. Reflection 2011 R1 runs on Microsoft Windows 7, and takes advantage of that operating system’s user account control (UAC) security mode. NET control that developers can use to add features to and enhance the legacy host application, but without directly modifying it. It gets a new “Web browser mode” that provides “browser-like” capabilities and gives users access to more screen real estate, without requiring users’ fingers to leave the keyboard, the company says. ![]() “As such, we’re delivering a game-changing new capability that enables organizations to protect sensitive data on host screens, facilitating compliance with industry and government regulations, like PCI DSS.”Īttachmate added several other new features to Reflection 2011 R2. “With all of the news of sensitive customer data being compromised by large organizations, security is top of mind for our enterprise customers,” states Attachmate vice president of marketing Eric Varness in a press release. Reflection 2011 R2 also gives administrators more granular control over their users, such as by requiring users to connect to certain applications over encrypted lines, and allowing admins to assign different levels of access to private information on host screens. Attachmate says the feature support is patent-pending, and that it does support Japanese. The inclusion of data masking is potentially of very great benefit to Reflection customers, considering that implementing data masking has heretofore been a pretty complicated task (akin to encrypting tables in a database) that also required the licensing of a separate data masking product. The new data masking capability will also obscure data as workers enter it, preventing criminals from getting sensitive data by peering over employees’ shoulders. This feature will prevent workers from seeing sensitive pieces of read-only data on 52 screens, such as a complete credit card number, while showing employees enough of the data to still be able to do their job. To that end, Attachmate has built security into its emulators for years, with support for features like encrypted sessions, public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates, single sign-on, and smart card authentication.īut with the addition of its new data masking technology, Attachmate is taking its security up a level. ![]() While industry regulations like PCI DSS and HIPAA are pretty clear in describing what types of activities won’t be tolerated, it’s another task entirely to implement those requirements in the real world, with its multitude of different host platforms, business processes, and even traditions.Īs one of the largest providers of terminal emulation software, Attachmate stands at the critical junction–or the interface, if you will–between the employees who work on host systems and make the company run, and the enterprise applications that corporations rely on to enforce business policies and automate repetitive tasks. Locking down enterprise host systems is not always a straightforward task. New features unveiled last week in Reflection 2011 R2, such as the capability to mask data on live screens and the capability to prevent users from logging on via unencrypted connections, are designed to prevent the unauthorized access of data from host systems, including IBM i and z/OS servers. Attachmate Masks IBM i, z/OS Data Within the EmulatorĮnsuring the security of information is the main driver behind Attachmate‘s latest terminal emulation software release. ![]()
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