Hi everyone!

A few days ago, I celebrated a summer weekend up in Duluth, Minnesota, on the shores of beautiful Lake Superior. While Minneapolis was being pounded by torrential rain and thunderstorms, I enjoyed my first visit to this area, camping “old school” with my family in tents and sleeping bags, and roasting hot dogs and S’mores over an open fire. I would offer up that it doesn’t get much better than that! We also spent time skipping rocks across this unbelievably immense body of water, walking through the gorgeous Duluth rose gardens, and taking a fun ride on the recently-opened alpine roller coaster.

One of the main reasons for our travel north was to attend the exciting Duluth Airshow. I took my photo of two of the U.S. Air Force “Thunderbirds” during their awe-inspiring demonstration, and although it is hard to believe, it was edited ONLY for contrast! Witness the total faith that these pilots have in their equipment, their flight support crew, and their fellow airmen. This is a good analogy of the security of your IBM i data. It takes a combination of rock-solid hardware, quality software, competent technical support, and a parent organization that backs its solutions to ensure success. Failure of any of these critical “systems” could result in a security catastrophe, so make sure that you put your faith in “the best of the best.”

Back in the office, I am starting the wind-up for a post-summer event schedule that includes customer visits and security training workshops around the country. We will be posting information about these events as they become scheduled, both on www.powertech.com as well as in Power News, so make sure that you are signed up to receive this free monthly electronic newsletter.

As part of PowerTech’s ongoing commitment to IBM i security education, I will be presenting four security sessions at the COMMON Fall Conference and Expo in San Antonio, Texas, in early October. I am also booked to be at a couple of other regional events: ISACA’s Information Security and Risk Management conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in mid September and Optimum Solutions’ User Group conference in Nashville, Tennessee in late October.

It’s a good thing that I really love to travel, as tomorrow I am flying out to Nashville for the remainder of this week. I will be working with a large customer to discuss the deployment of our security suite to more than 100 of their IBM i systems—an exciting project to be involved in!

I mentioned in last week’s blog that we have a new Authority Broker e-training course in the works. This generated a lot of emails from customers who  are happy that we are providing another educational resource for them. I can now reveal the online class schedule, as well as announce the next iteration of our popular Network Security e-training:

Authority Broker                                                September 2

Network Security – The Basics                        September 23

Network Security – Advanced (Part 1)            September 28

Network Security – Advanced (Part 2)            September 30

If you are new to Authority Broker or Network Security, or would simply like to brush up on your existing skills, sign up today as seats are limited!

Drop me a line at robin.tatam@powertech.com for more information about PowerTech, or visit www.powertech.com.

Cheers!

-       rt

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