Lotusphere 2012, Orlando Florida

BCC  announced at Lotusphere the release of DominoProtect 5, an advanced IBM Lotus Domino security and compliance solution.

DominoProtect tracks all changes to server documents, groups, connection and any type of configuration documents in your Domino Directory. DominoProtect can even track who has opened which configuration documents. All tracking is performed in real time using DominoProtect’s innovative technology.

Using DominoProtect, one can protect any documents on the server from unwanted changes. Changes to server-, configuration, connection- or domain documents must be approved through a request based, integrated workflow.

DominoProtect tracks or prevents changes in real time which guarantees consistent systems and no dangerous system failures due to bad configurations. This has a clear advantage over using a scheduled approach where one can only be informed about changes.

If you are using IDVault, IBM strongly recommends password protection for server ID files:

„We understand that most Domino servers are not password-protected to make unattended reboots simpler, but the vault server's ID file is a key element in the security of your ID vault. A sophisticated attacker with a vault database and one of the corresponding server Ids ... would have all of the cryptographic information needed to masquerade as the vault server and decrypt all of the ID files stored in the vault.“*

DominoProtect automatically protects the server ID with a highly secure randomly-generated password and provides this password during every start up of the IBM Lotus Domino Server.  With DominoProtect, your server is protected and your ID Vault is secured.

Automation of Lotus Notes / Domino processes:

Everyone is aware of the typical problems faced by administrators who have to perform all the administration processes. There are numerous help requests from users who have forgotten their passwords, users who require a new database for a project and users who need to change their names. The admins’ duties also include setting up email accounts for every new employee, implementing a new server and migrating Lotus Notes Users etc. Admins are busy all day with those requests. The delegation to the helpdesk is difficult because of the high manual complexity and required high access level. We will discuss how one can automate processes which previously had to be performed manually. We will explain how the requests can be delegated to the helpdesk and even to users themselves, and how a kind of self-service for employees can be created. This automation saves time and effort as well as minimizes mistakes and possible misunderstandings so that users and admins can work more efficiently.