Author Archives: T.Rob

WMQ Security Open Mic announced!

Posted on August 26, 2010 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Let's (not) do the time warp again!

Posted on June 26, 2010 by T.Rob

Wow, the last 24 hours has been…interesting…here at Store and Forward.  Friday night I noticed all of my blog posts after October 2009 had disappeared!  My hosting provider’s front page lists daily backups as one of their services so I … Continue reading →

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Security remediation – DIY?

Posted on May 25, 2010 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Lab materials actually posted this time!

Posted on May 5, 2010 by T.Rob

The link I gave out earlier http://bit.ly/WMQSecurityLab is actually a good link, the problem was that after uploading the files, I neglected to update the index page to point to them.  That’s been fixed now and the session materials have … Continue reading →

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WebSphere Client Experience Program has extensive presence at IMPACT

Posted on April 30, 2010 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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WMQ Security Lab materials posted

Posted on April 29, 2010 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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WMQ SSL & TLS Open Mic

Posted on April 28, 2010 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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Up for air and off to IMPACT

Posted on April 28, 2010 by T.Rob

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted here but I finally came up for air and even managed to take a week off.  I was supposed to be in Germany last week at the Guide Share Europe  WMQ Working … Continue reading →

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Deep Queue #14 – The Elephant Under the Bed

Posted on November 27, 2009 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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In memorium

Posted on October 29, 2009 by T.Rob

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 … Continue reading →

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