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PowerSC: Your One-Stop Shop For Security On IBM i – And Beyond

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IBM's PowerSC security tool integrates with the open-source ClamAV engine for malware detection on IBM i, AIX, and Linux systems.

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September 21, 2026 Alex Woodie Keeping on top of changing security threats is difficult, to say the least. It is even harder to map changing threats to changing configurations on your IBM i server. When your IT network also includes AIX and Linux systems, the difficulty gets multiplied. For these types of environments, IBM provides a tool called PowerSC. When IBM launched PowerSC (which stands for security and compliance) as an IBM Lab Services product way back in 2010, it was primarily designed for setting up security configurations and running audits on AIX. That is not the case today, as the tool provides a plethora of security capabilities specifically for IBM i environments as well as AIX on Power and Linux on both Power and X86 systems. IBM recently hosted a Guided Tour that provided a peek into what this powerful tool can do. It turns out IBM has been keeping up with evolving security threats as well as IBM i-specific capabilities with the product, such as support for multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is barely a year old. Our guides for this September 3 tour, titled What’s New in IBM PowerSC for IBM i: Strengthening Security, Compliance, and Audit Readiness, were Anima Varshney, the PowerSC product manager based out of IBM’s India Systems and Development Lab (ISDL), and Bhargavi Reddy, the product’s lead architect. According to Varshney, the easiest way to...

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PowerSC ships with ClamAV , the open source virus and malware detection engine.

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