Security patching: keep your IBM Maximo environment safe

How do you ensure secure access to IBM Maximo? It is important to regularly install updates to IBM WebSphere, the Maximo web server. This immediately gives you the latest security patches and minimizes the chance of hackers gaining access to your systems. This can now be done fully automatically, with a subscription for Security Patching.

17 June 2021 • 10 min read

Updating web servers is often forgotten. Security is a hot item.

internet, cybercriminals are able to gain access to systems and data breaches regularly make the front pages of newspapers. The financial and reputational damage can be enormous. Installing software updates on time is one way to prevent misery. In practice, this usually happens with business applications and internet browsers, for example, but the underlying web servers are sometimes forgotten.

Security patches for WebSphere

IBM Maximo includes WebSphere under the hood. This allows you to give your users access to the asset management software, unless you run it on your own systems and have it closed off, of course. IBM regularly releases WebSphere updates with security patches. But how do you stay up-to-date without spending a lot of time and effort? That’s why Gemba has a new service: Security Patching for IBM WebSphere.

Security patching on a subscription basis

With this new service for Security Patching, we ensure that IBM WebSphere updates are installed on your systems regularly and automatically on a subscription basis, without you having to worry about it. You choose how often this happens, for example, once a month, per quarter or per year. We also inform you, for example, when IBM releases a new version of WebSphere or if there is a security issue. This way you can also take interim measures and further limit security risks.

Managed services: including security patching

Another way we at Gemba can relieve you in the field of security for IBM Maximo is through our managed services. You do not use your own hardware or software, but purchase IBM Maximo as a service, on a reliable infrastructure. We do the complete management for you, including security. This way you can be sure that your asset management environment is always up-to-date, with the latest patches.

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