Archive for the Category: MQ Message Encryption

Pres. Trump says gov’t agencies need better security – MQ security too?

February 3, 2017 Roger Lacroix

The other day, U.S. President Donald Trump said: the government agencies need to better protect their networks. Most of the U.S. government agencies use IBM MQ for their messaging middleware. Application messages that traverse their MQ environment contain confidential and highly secure information. As many of you know, A basic setup of IBM MQ Server […]

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Capitalware Products 2016 Release Train

December 15, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, Capitalware Inc. released updates to all of the products that involve MQ Exits. Blog posting for product releases: MQ Auditor v2.4.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit v3.2.0 MQ Authenticate User Security Exit for z/OS v3.2.0 MQ Channel Encryption v3.1.2 MQ Channel Encryption for z/OS v3.1.2 MQ Channel Throttler v1.0.2 MQ Message Encryption v3.3.0 MQ […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v3.3.0

December 14, 2016 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v3.3.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Encryption. MQME provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). For more information about MQME, […]

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New Categories for my Blog

April 5, 2016 Roger Lacroix

I frequently get asked to notify a particular customer of an update/issue/patch for a product. I used to send mass emails to all customers when I needed to notify them of something but I stopped doing this several years ago. Now I say ‘check my blog‘ to find the information. I have created a bunch […]

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Apple vs FBI Encryption Court Case

March 17, 2016 Roger Lacroix

I have not commented publicly on the Apple vs FBI encryption court case that is going on in the USA because Capitalware sells encryption software to companies to protect customer data, so you can guess that I’m on Apple’s side. This is not a simple issue like some people want to make it out to […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v3.2.1

November 11, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v3.2.1. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Encryption. MQME provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). For more information about MQME, […]

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Capitalware Product Advisory for Windows

June 12, 2015 Roger Lacroix

It has been discovered that a common subroutine for dumping environment variables on Windows had an error with the FreeEnvironmentStrings Windows API call. Hence, this would cause the product to leak memory on Windows. This is true regardless of the IniFile’s LogMode keyword value. This issue affects all Capitalware commercial and ‘Licensed As Free’ products […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v3.2.0

April 23, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v3.2.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Encryption. MQME provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). For more information about MQME, […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v3.1.0

November 6, 2014 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v3.1.0. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Message Encryption. MQME provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). For more information about MQME, […]

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Capitalware’s Products and the Heartbleed Issue

April 14, 2014 Roger Lacroix

None of Capitalware’s Products directly use OpenSSL, so the Heartbleed issue does not directly affect our products. If you use MQAUSX on Linux and have configured MQAUSX to target an LDAP server using “LDAP over SSL”, then you will want to check what OpenSSL package is installed on your Linux server. i.e. The affected versions […]

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