Why a Specialist Security Entity

The Case for a Specialist Entity

AS400Software.com covers the full landscape of IBM i software: backup and recovery, high availability, monitoring, automation, modernization, and security, among others. That breadth is useful for buyers who are still scoping their category, but IBM i security specifically has enough surface area, and enough consequence when a decision is wrong, to justify a dedicated authority. AS400 Security is that authority: the specialist layer where architecture guidance, vendor evaluation, advisory tracking, and operational procedure all live at a depth a general category page cannot sustain.

Relationship to AS400 Software AI

AS400 Security is a subdomain of AS400Software.com, sharing its research standards, editorial ownership, and IBM i focus. It is not a competing property; it is the deep-dive security vertical inside the same family, the same way AS/400 Software Pricing (pricing.as400software.com) is the deep-dive economics vertical. Backup, high availability, and disaster recovery verticals are planned as the same pattern extends across the rest of the IBM i operations stack.

How We Evaluate

This site is evaluative, not vendor-neutral. When we compare MFA products or recommend a compliance monitoring vendor, we say which one we think is stronger and why, based on published product capability, IBM i-specific track record, and independent-feeling data sources like Fortra's annual State of IBM i Security Study. We do not accept payment for placement in comparisons or vendor recommendations. Vendor profiles list real strengths and real limitations; a product with no listed limitations has not been evaluated carefully enough.

What We Track and Verify

Advisory and vulnerability content on this site carries a last-verified date. Security bulletins are sourced from IBM's own published Security Bulletins wherever a specific CVE is cited. General vulnerability-class reference entries (default passwords, excessive *ALLOBJ authority, unsecured exit points, and similar) are drawn from well-documented, widely observed IBM i security patterns rather than any single incident, and are labeled as such.