CCR2 Newsletter - september issue

You might've noticed I've not been posting as regularly as before. I think it really has to do with the holiday period : less announcements, less events, less interesting publications (on Techdocs e.g.) ... and I'm not really eager on posting when there's nothing much to tell. Cucumber season ?

It's been 5 months since I mentioned IBM's CCR2 Newsletter. All details on this newsletter, its content and how to subscribe are in my previous post.
I guess that CCR2 is the first one to pick up the pace again, because there are some really nice articles in it. My selection ?

• The CCR2 Interview: This way to innovative mainframe security
  This interview gives a short introduction to the Tivoli zSecure Suite which are in fact the Consul products. It gives a brief but comprehensive description of the six components : IBM Tivoli zSecure Admin, IBM Tivoli zSecure Audit, IBM Tivoli zSecure Alert, IBM Tivoli zSecure Command Verifier, IBM Tivoli zSecure Visual, and IBM Tivoli zSecure CICS Toolkit.

• "Did you say mainframe?!" podcasts
  In fact these are mainly about mainframe and SOA. There's e.g. "CICS Transaction Server V3.2 –- Continuing to put the S in SOA" talking about "CICS application connectivity, CICS application reuse and CICS application service management".

• Defending Business Data: IBM's System z as the Encryption Hub of the Enterprise
  The title speaks for itself. What's covered ? The mainframe as the central security hub, IPSec (zIIP), Managing Encryption Keys (CryptoExpress2), Encryption with Tape Solutions (TS3500 tape library, TS1120 tape drive, TS3400 tape library and TS7700 Virtualzation Engine).