developerWorks Technical Exchange is hosting a WebSphere MQ Open Mic on the topic of security September 16 from 11am – 12pm EDT. The panel will include Tom Schneider, Morag Hughson, Paul O’Donnell and myself. The deadline for be pre-submitted questions is September 7th. There will be an open Q&A at the end but I expect [...]
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Security remediation – DIY?
May 25th, 2010 1 Comment
It’s nice to have been around long enough to be able to watch the WMQ community grow over the years. You can watch the postings on the Vienna List Server or MQSeries.net work though themes as the community goes through its growing pains. When I first came to MQSeries, the community was still wrapping it’s [...]
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WebSphere Client Experience Program has extensive presence at IMPACT
April 30th, 2010 No Comments
Wow, I can’t believe how many WebSphere Client Experience Program sessions are at IMPACT this year! IBM has been working for quite some time to build stronger partnerships between the folks using WebSphere software and the folks developing it. One of the visible signs of that effort has been the growing presence of the of [...]
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WMQ Security Lab materials posted
April 29th, 2010 No Comments
As promised, here are the WMQ Security Lab materials. These include the lab guide and the scripts. To run the lab you will need a Linux server with WMQ v7.0 installed, as well as WMQ Explorer with SupportPac MS0P, the SupportPac MA01 Q program, and of course the SSL Wizard SupportPac. The URL for the [...]
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WMQ SSL & TLS Open Mic
April 28th, 2010 No Comments
Regular followers of this blog won’t want to miss tomorrow’s WebSphere Technical Exchange “WMQ SSL & TLS Open Mic“. Panelists scheduled are Alex Fehners, Andrew Akehurst, Calista Stevens, Jonathan Rumsey, Mike Horan, Rhys Francis, Tameka Woody, Mark Womack and Tiffanie Pearson so it promises to be an extremely informative event blessed by both experience from [...]
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Deep Queue #14 – The Elephant Under the Bed
November 27th, 2009 4 Comments
This episode of The Deep Queue celebrates the first birthday of the podcast with some discussion of the SSL protocol vulnerability that was recently discovered. Although there has been no announcement with regard to WebSphere MQ, I try to put the whole discussion into a larger context and ask if this is really the thing [...]
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In memorium
October 29th, 2009 No Comments
The PCI community has suffered a great loss with the passing of Dave Taylor recently. Dave had a vision of helping companies achieve not just the letter of PCI compliance, but the spirit of PCI compliance through better understanding and an open dialog amongst practitioners, auditors, users, business leaders and all other stakeholders. That vision [...]
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WMQ free tools updated
October 29th, 2009 No Comments
Michael Dag at MQSystems has updated his WMQ 1-Page Quick Reference cards. Go to his Links page and look at the top two entries. While you are there, check out the Solutions page where you can find out abour MQ Document and MQ Architect. Roger Lacroix has updated a few of his free products recently, [...]
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Deep Queue #13: Unlucky number thirteen
August 28th, 2009 No Comments
After a month unplanned hiatus, The Deep Queue is back. This month we are talking about high availability, which is obviously something The Deep Queue lacks. This may not seem like a security topic at first glance but to my way of thinking it is. There is no perfect security so, no matter how much [...]
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WebSphere MQ – Coming soon to an audit near you!
July 4th, 2009 No Comments
The June 29 episode of The Deep Queue is finally up! Sorry about the delay, I was on an engagement last week that had me staying over the weekend in Boston to perform a production implementation on Saturday. Although I’ve got a great recording setup at home, I’m afraid I don’t have decent equipment to [...]
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