For the past six years, PowerTech has compiled audit data trends from over 1,500 servers into the annual “State of System i Security” study. Each study has identified many of the same vulnerabilities, suggesting that System i shops are still not where they need to be in terms of security and auditing.

Join Robin Tatam, Director of Security Technologies at PowerTech, in this webcast where you will learn how to get started auditing the System i platform, including free use of PowerTech’s compliance assessment tool to perform a personalized review of your own environment – in under 15 minutes!

You will learn about performing an audit of these important areas:

• System Values
• Network Access such as FTP and ODBC
• User Profiles
• Special Authorities
• Event Auditing

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

Presenters
Main Presenter: Robin Tatam, PowerTech
Co-presenter: Jill Martin, PowerTech

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
8 a.m. Pacific / 10 a.m. Central / 11 a.m. Eastern
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Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bio
Robin Tatam is the Director of Security Technologies for PowerTech, a leading provider of security solutions for the System i. As a frequent speaker on security topics, he was also co-author of the Redbook IBM System i Security: Protecting i5/OS Data with Encryption. Robin can be reached by email at robin.tatam@powertech.com.

The IBM i operating system includes a facility to audit system and user events. However, once the event data is collected the challenge becomes how to disseminate the raw data into useful information, and how to do it in real-time.

Join this webinar to understand:

• How to configure the IBM i operating system to record system and user events
• Adding PowerTech Network Security to audit network-based events (FTP, ODBC)
• How to send real-time alert notifications as syslog events to a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) console using PowerTech Interact
• How to send real-time alert notifications to email addresses and cell phones using Help/Systems’ Robot/Alert

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

Presenters
Main Presenter: Robin Tatam, PowerTech
Co-presenter: Paul Culin, PowerTech (Interact)
Co-presenter: Jill Martin, PowerTech (Robot)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
8 a.m. Pacific / 10 a.m. Central / 11 a.m. Eastern
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Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bio
Robin Tatam is the Director of Security Technologies for PowerTech, a leading provider of security solutions for the System i. As a frequent speaker on security topics, he was also co-author of the Redbook IBM System i Security: Protecting i5/OS Data with Encryption. Robin can be reached by email at robin.tatam@powertech.com.

My name is Robin Tatam and I am PowerTech’s Director of Security Technologies. When I was asked to contribute to our corporate blog, I was excited for two reasons. First, I am a true believer! You won’t find many people who are bigger fans of Power Systems and ‘i’ than me. And, I am not just an ‘on paper’ enthusiast—I have strung miles of Twinax cable, written “millions” of lines of RPG code, and sat up many nights running disaster recovery tests. I get it—this server is a technological rock star! Second, in my capacity as a security professional, I see how many of these systems are not properly secured. I love the idea of having access to another communication channel to spread the word that there is much work to be done to keep IBM i data safe.

As part of our status as the leading IBM i security solution and services provider, PowerTech has embraced a number of modern communication mediums, including Twitter (@powertechgroup), PowerNews, our electronic newsletter, and a weekly online seminar schedule. Blogging is a natural extension of that communication because it allows for rapid dissemination of information so that we can easily weigh-in on important security topics. In the future, we plan to have personal observations from the PowerTech security team, interspersed with more in-depth articles from the PowerNews newsletter, as well as announcements on upcoming events.

In the true spirit of blogging, I wrote this entry at 36,000 feet, somewhere above the Grand Canyon, on the last leg of my trip to irrepressible Las Vegas to attend an ISACA auditor conference. Our work with the audit community sometimes makes us unpopular in data centers, but we feel that an educated auditor is easier to deal with, forcing us to be more conscientious security officers.

I look forward to reporting to you about my trip…

Robin Tatam

At one time or another, every administrator and Security Officer will face the question “who did it?” The IBM i operating system includes a facility to audit certain user activities, and you need to use it. However, once the event data is collected the challenge becomes how to disseminate the raw data into useful information.

Join this webinar to understand:

• How to configure the IBM i operating system to record system and user events
• What types of activities can (and cannot) be audited
• What other information an Auditor wants to see
• How to step up to the next level of audit reporting with PowerTech Compliance Monitor

You will also learn about what system auditing does not capture, and how to prevent that from causing you to fail an audit.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

Presenters
Main Presenter: Robin Tatam, PowerTech
Co-presenter: Paul Culin, PowerTech

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
8 a.m. Pacific / 10 a.m. Central / 11 a.m. Eastern
Check our chart for your local time >

Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bio
Robin Tatam is the Director of Security Technologies for PowerTech, a leading provider of security solutions for the System i. As a frequent speaker on security topics, he was also co-author of the Redbook IBM System i Security: Protecting i5/OS Data with Encryption. Robin can be reached by email at robin.tatam@powertech.com.