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Lawson Security Administrator Cached URLs

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There may be a time when you want to remove a URL from the cached URLs list in Lawson Security Administrator (LSA).  This could help clear storage space and run your programs faster and would not hurt to clear your cache regularly.

If you want to clear your LSA cached URLs, on your desktop where you use the program, you will need navigate to %programdata%/LawsonHttpClient.  Next, edit the list as needed and save it. The changes will be immediate after you click save. Your LSA URLs have now been cached! You can refer to the screenshots below for a visual guide.

 

Nova Scotia to Improve Revenue Management Processes with Infor

Infor recently announced that Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health have selected the Infor Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management application to help their organizations meet the goals of its digital transformation program, One Person One Record (OPOR). Per the press release, this major program will replace health information systems used throughout the province of Nova Scotia with a new clinical information system. Key Infor applications will be used to modernize and unify disparate patient accounting and billing systems. Scott McKenna, chief information officer, Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health, adds, “During our selection process, Infor demonstrated its understanding of the vision and strategic direction of One Person One Record, and how billing systems are part of the overall transformation. This technology will consolidate and streamline client and patient billing, payments, and follow-up for cases such as out-of-country patients or uninsured patients.”

 

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Upcoming Webinar: Infor Managed Services for Lawson and CloudSuite (4/25 @ 9am PDT)

Are you struggling with maintaining and managing your Infor applications? Do you wonder if you are getting the most out of your investment?

Join us as we discuss case studies of our managed service customers and how they are:

  • Reducing operating costs by 40%
  • Reducing downtimes by 90%
  • Getting the most value out of their Infor applications

When: Thursday April 25, 2024

9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT

 

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Upcoming Webinar: Lawson Security Reporting with LSF-IQ (3/21 @ 9am PDT)

Are you struggling with getting actionable data out of Lawson Security?

Join us for a discussion of the simplest, most user friendly, and most economical security reporting tool available for the Lawson application.

When: Thursday March 21, 2024

9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT

 

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Lawson job stuck in submitting status

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Is your Lawson job stuck in a submitting status after clicking submit multiple times as shown below?

This commonly happens when a user returns to an organization and their access is restored or another users lawson jobs are copied over to this user. These jobs have been updated from CTPs or patches and may have old or corrupt parameters.

 

Resolution 1:

Try and simply create a new job in Lawson (deleting the old) and try submitting again. This is assuming the user’s security and identity are already setup correctly.

 

Resolution 2:

If the above doesn’t resolve the issue, the cause of the issue can occur when the users DOMAIN Identity is corrupt or out of sync in LDAP. This is the domain identity that controls the print directory found in “Managed Identities” when viewing a user in Lawson Security.

 

First backup the users print directory and do a jobdump command in LID to copy their jobs. The delete and re-add this DOMAIN identity to see if it resolves the issue.

 

If it doesn’t, you’ll need to delete the user completely and re-add them into Lawson. This can be done with the Lawson Security Admin tool. You can also download Jxplorer and see if LDAP is holding onto the identity (backup LDAP before editing/deleting any identities in Jxplorer).

 

Good luck!

Gartner Identifies the Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2024

Ransomware, NFTs, remote working, and GenerativeAI all have one thing in common: they live in the digital landscape. Cybersecurity is now more than ever important to have for any business who will have even the smallest online footprint. According to Gartner, the following six trends will have broad impact across these areas:
Trend 1: Generative AI – Short-term Skepticism, Longer-Term Hope. “Security leaders need to prepare for the swift evolution of GenAI, as large language model (LLM) applications like ChatGPT and Gemini are only the start of its disruption. Simultaneously, these leaders are inundated with promises of productivity increases, skills gap reductions and other new benefits for cybersecurity. Gartner recommends using GenAI through proactive collaboration with business stakeholders to support the foundations for the ethical, safe and secure use of this disruptive technology.”

Trend 2: Cybersecurity Outcome-Driven Metrics: Bridging Boardroom Communication Gap. “According to Gartner, ODMs are central to creating a defensible cybersecurity investment strategy, reflecting agreed protection levels with powerful properties, and in simple language that is explainable to non-IT executives. This provides a credible and defensible expression of risk appetite that supports direct investment to change protection levels.”

Trend 3: Security Behavior and Culture Programs Gain Increasing Traction to Reduce Human Risks. “Security leaders recognize that shifting focus from increasing awareness to fostering behavioral change will help reduce cybersecurity risks. By 2027, 50% of large enterprise CISOs will have adopted human-centric security design practices to minimize cybersecurity-induced friction and maximize control adoption. Security behavior and culture programs (SBCPs) encapsulate an enterprisewide approach to minimizing cybersecurity incidents associated with employee behavior.”

Trend 4: Resilience-Driven, Resource-Efficient Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk Management. “Gartner recommends security leaders enhance risk management of third-party services and establish mutually beneficial relationships with important external partners, to ensure their most valuable assets are continuously safeguarded.”

Trend 5: Continuous Threat Exposure Management Programs Gain Momentum. “By 2026, Gartner predicts that organizations prioritizing their security investments based on a CTEM program will realize a two-thirds reduction in breaches. Security leaders must continuously monitor hybrid digital environments to enable early identification and optimal prioritization of vulnerabilities to help maintain a hardened organizational attack surface.”

Trend 6: Extending the Role of Identity & Access Management (IAM) to Improve Cybersecurity Outcomes. “Gartner recommends security leaders focus on strengthening and leveraging their identity fabric and leverage identity threat detection and response to ensure IAM capabilities are best positioned to support the breadth of the overall security program.”

 

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Upcoming Events March 2024

Mark your calendars for a pair of spring webinars, one of which is hosted by Nogalis!

 

Learn How to Navigate and Get the Most From Your InforUsers Community

Hosted by: Infor

When: Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 from 1:00 to 1:30 PM (US/Central)

PLEASE NOTE: After you register you will see the “Venue” button by looking to the right of this screen to select “Go To Live Event (Venue)” then select view session.

Learn How to Navigate and Get the Most From Your InforUsers Community

WorkOutLoud has been working and supporting this Community for more than 15 year and the User Group Board Members and Partners both agree that the WorkOutLoud Community platform is a trusted place for their peers, partners and user groups.

AGENDA 

  • What is the Independent InforUsers Community
  • Who is WorkOutLoud
  • How to navigate in the community – Demo
  • How to stay up to date with your User Groups by “Following” them – Demo
  • How to connect with your peers and partners in the community – Demo
  • How to contribute and share ideas around important topics – Demo
  • Want to startup your own interest group to discuss important topics?

For any questions please contact: Loring Kaveney, Loring.Kaveney@WorkOutLoud.com

View/Register Here

 

 

Lawson Security Reporting with LSF-IQ

Hosted by: Nogalis

When: Thursday, March 21st, 2024 from 9:00 to 10:00 AM (US/Pacific)

Are you struggling with getting actionable data out of Lawson Security?

Join us for a discussion of the simplest, most user friendly, and most economical security reporting tool available for the Lawson application.

When: Thursday March 21, 2024

9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT

 

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Top 8 ERP implementation best practices

Implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a colossal task. If done right, it is extremely beneficial. If done poorly, it could hurt you business dramatically. For a successful implementation, business professionals need to learn how to reduce and prepare for risks and failures. Tony Kontzer, a California-based freelance journalist at TechTarget, shared an article highlighting 8 ERP implementation best practices companies should consider when deploying their new system.

  1. Define business goals first. “Companies should start by getting clear on desired key performance indicators and doing the strategic planning needed to align the effort with what the company does.”
  2. Address data quality. “The ERP implementation process presents an ideal opportunity to get the entire organization’s data in order. Getting a handle on the issue has become even more important during the emerging era of cloud ERP and AI-driven analytics, with data typically being pulled seemingly from everywhere.”
  3. Get clear on your staffing strengths and weaknesses. “This is a general IT rule of thumb, but it’s especially important for ERP deployments. ERP touches every part of a company, affects nearly every process, records every transaction and spits out insights. If an organization wants to get it right, having the right people can make a huge difference.”
  4. Find a trusted implementation partner. “The search for a good implementation partner can be tough, but it’s well worth the effort.”
  5. Create a good implementation methodology. “Implementation methodologies will make or break the success of an ERP rollout. A good ERP deployment requires defining business requirements through documentation.”
  6. Focus on communication. “Regardless of whether a deployment is on premises or in the cloud, employees need to know how the software changes their jobs and then be trained on those new tools. This can go a long way toward determining how effectively users adopt a new system.”
  7. Embrace the little failures along the way. “Little failures will undoubtedly happen during the course of a deployment. How an organization responds to them will help to determine how effective the new ERP system ultimately becomes.”
  8. Know when to wait. “Business processes have become so complicated, and the average company has so many more applications and systems it’s relying on, that the post-deployment stages of integrating processes and bringing people up to speed have lengthened. Sometimes, companies would be better served by resisting the urge to implement a new ERP system now when now may be too soon.”

 

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Set debug logging on Lawson Security Rules

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Follow the steps below to set debug logging on Lawson Security Rules.

 

Launch Lawson Security Administrator (LSA).

Select Server Management.

Select Server.

Select the Auditing + Logging tab.

Under Logging Levels on the right, click Debug.

Under the Select User to Log section type in the RMId of a user who should be logged.

Additionally, under the Select User to Log section type ALL in upper case*.

Click Apply.

After the security Caching Interval time is reached then perform the same action you need to troubleshoot.  Note the date/time you perform the action.

Collect the logs: On the Lawson server, the name and location of the log files are: LAWDIR/system/lase_server_*_*.log  and ios.log and ios.log(x).

To disable the debug logging in LSA, go back to the Auditing + Logging tab. Change the Logging Levels to Critical and highlight the RMId you added and click Remove, then highlight ALL and click Remove.