Hi everyone!

Visiting with customers is one of my favorite activities, so I was excited that last week’s Midrange Mixer in Rochester, MN brought in a lot of IBM i users. This time, the event was hosted at the famous Michael’s restaurant (as designated by the hundreds of celebrity photos hanging in the main hallway) in downtown Rochester. We welcomed a large number of customers and prospective customers for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and Jeopardy-style games. I must say, it’s amazing how much easier those questions are to answer when you are NOT sitting in the hot seat!

The evening’s table conversations were very stimulating, with numerous companies seeking assistance with their security projects. PowerTech’s recent introduction of Network Security Version 6 and other enhancement projects in the works were a topic of discussion, as was our great no-charge compliance assessment solution. I know Tom Huntington encountered a similar response regarding multi-platform scheduling, and other Help/Systems specialties. I must say, it’s good to hear about healthy business initiatives again.

Thanks must go to our own Heath Kath, Technical Sales Consultant for SEQUEL Software, for his willingness to don the (in)famous Robot suit, and stand out on the streets of Rochester to welcome everyone to the party! (Thanks also go to my over-six-feet tall parents for ensuring that the suit does not fit me!)

If you are also embarking on a new security project, drop me a line to find out how PowerTech can put our resources to work for you. With skilled security engineers, and our well-known security software solutions, we have the tools to get the job done right—regardless of your security or compliance objectives.

As part of summer, we are slowing our weekly Webinar schedule to approximately two per month. Look for our security workshops and Webinars to resume their normal schedule in September. As always, the PowerTech Website and PowerNews electronic newsletter are a great source of information, and both sources have the upcoming event schedule for June, July and August.

Speaking of summer, I am taking time off work next week to take my kids on a highly anticipated vacation to the southern climes of Boca Raton, Florida. Following my visit to Orlando for COMMON last month, I saw what a fabulous place this would be for a family trip to the beach. Thanks to my foreign exchange student “brother” for his hospitality at the beautiful ocean-front resort he manages in Deerfield Beach.

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

Cheers!

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Hi everyone!

Last week, I mentioned that many companies struggle with starting security projects due to a lack of any clear direction or action plan. I introduced the idea of performing an assessment, and mentioned one of the options is to start with our own no-charge Compliance Assessment solution.

I have had a number of follow-up questions regarding this approach, so this week I thought that I would delve a little deeper into the PowerTech Compliance Assessment process.

First and foremost, this is a tool that runs on Microsoft Windows. Of course, there is an IBM i component to collect the host data, but it is installed by the tool as it runs, and is removed again after it completes. This means no footprint is left behind on the server. If your change management process does not allow for software installation, we can work with you to catalog the things that are installed and deleted.

PC requirements:

• Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista
• Java Virtual Machine (JVM), version 1.5 or later
• Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later, or Mozilla Firefox (2.0 or higher is preferred)
• Adobe Flash version 9 or later is required to view the report

IBM i requirements:

• OS/400 V5R1 or later
• Access to a powerful user profile with *ALLOBJ and *SECADM
• A network connection to the system with ftp access

The software is installed from an automatic installation process that comes from a download link that we provide. You have 7 days after you run the first assessment to run it again (as many times as you wish). This works well to provide an updated baseline based on some simple changes that may be enacted.

There are six areas of review, each represented by their own tab in the assessment application:

Auditing

This is a review of the event capture configuration provided in the operating system. PowerTech’s annual security study indicates that 20% of IBM i shops are still not performing any form of auditing, and many more are not collecting data that would be sufficient for a forensics review.

User Access

One of the largest exposures I see when performing assessments is the lack of visibility to requests for data from network interfaces, such as ODBC and FTP. IBM provides a supplemental layer to the operating system called exit points, and this checks to see which exit points have registered exit programs monitoring them.

User Security

One of the best defense mechanisms you can use is strong user and password rules. A review of your profile environment provides feedback on the number of profiles that have not recently been used, profiles with default passwords, and highest number of invalid sign-on attempts. An analysis of your password rules is also included.

System Security

There are a number of security-related system values, and ensuring that they are all set appropriately is an important step in securing your system. We’ll review these settings, as well as some best practice recommendations.

Public Authority

A legacy of many IBM i applications is that we often rely on menu security, and user profile command restrictions to prevent unauthorized data access. A look at the public authority on your application libraries will reveal if they are vulnerable to access from outside of the application.

Admin Rights

Unnecessarily powerful profiles plague many IBM i shops, and is one of the most frequently cited issues by auditors. There are eight special authorities that should be reserved for administrators, and this section will review the number of users granted each of them.

Two tabs are designed to put a “bow” on the assessment package. The Summary tab provides an executive-level view of the general state of compliance to best practices. Intuitive red/yellow/green “traffic light” style indicators provide a visual gauge for non-technical people. The Recommendations tab summarizes the key observations, which can be printed and shared. I don’t usually spend much time in this section when working directly with customers, as I take my role in the assessment process to provide observations and recommendations that pertain to the specific environment.

If you meet the PC requirements listed above, check out our online sample report or, better yet, have an assessment performed on your own system. Did I mention that it doesn’t cost anything?

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

Cheers!

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Hi everyone!

As hard as it is to believe, today is already the last day of school for my two children, Jordan and Sydney.  Another academic year down, and a summer vacation about to begin.  At this point, both kids have no real plan for what the summer will hold, but that isn’t going to stop them racing into their highly anticipated time off!

Their enthusiasm, despite the lack of a solid game plan, started me thinking how many people start a security project with similar gusto, but also without any real direction on where to begin (or end).  Not only can this be expensive, but it is also likely to be an inefficient use of skilled resources, and will lead to frustration and possibly even abandonment of the project as being “too complicated.” As such, I though I would share one way that I have seen customers successfully embark on such a project.

As with any project, the first step is to establish the project goal or objective.  In a security project, the objective is usually to become secure or to become compliant.  If you are a frequent reader of the PowerTech blog, you will know that these two objectives are not necessarily the same, but are terms that are often used interchangeably.  From there, identify the tasks needed to achieve the objective, and then prioritize and schedule those tasks.

Okay, so back to our IBM i security project.  If this is a new type of initiative for your organization, then determining the tasks, as well as the priority of the tasks, can be a daunting process.  If you have ever spent any time looking at risk management, you know that you want to assign levels of risk based on the likelihood of an event occurring, in conjunction with the cost and effort of mitigating the exposure versus the cost of recovery if the event were to occur.  High risk items should be mitigated first.  Low risk items should be mitigated last, or perhaps not at all if the risk is considered acceptable.

One of the best ways to identify the tasks is with a formal review of your IBM i environment.  PowerTech has two popular offerings to assist with this process:

Security Assessment Tool

We have devised an automated assessment tool that performs a high-level review of six key security-related metrics on IBM i.  The assessment findings are presented instantly to your team via a rich browser-based application, and a comparison is made to common best-practice standards to provide direction on mitigation.  PowerTech provides access to the tool for 7 days, plus a security specialist to help interpret the findings, all at no charge for the first partition.

Security Assessment Service

After using the automated tool, perhaps a “deep dive” review is deemed necessary.  This fee-based offering can be customized to your own business requirements, but is typically a five day engagement involving a security specialist performing a comprehensive review of the IBM i configuration.  The resulting report details a prioritized list of concerns, along with background information on why an item is a concern.

Now that the exposures are known, it is much easier to assign the priority of the remediation tasks and to assign the costs to mitigate them.  Some items, such as network access to data and applications, is one of the biggest vulnerabilities we see, but it can also be one of the easier high-risk items to resolve.  Other concerns, such as overly powerful users, might take more planning and manual effort to mitigate.

Beyond the class-leading software solutions that PowerTech is renowned for, we can assist with virtually any task in an IBM i security project.  Our security specialists have experience and expertise in mitigating risk in many areas, including system configuration and applications.

Don’t allow your enthusiasm to be dampened by the lack of a solid game plan.  Starting with an assessment can prevent delaying the start of a project as important as this.  After all, your application data is one of your most valuable business assets.

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

Cheers!

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Hot on the heels of the Network Security 6.0 release, I sat down with Jill Martin to discuss events leading up to the launch.

Hi Jill! Thanks for giving me some time this morning to talk about NS 6. Webinar attendees probably know you well, but why don’t you give us a quick introduction?

Sure! My name is Jill Martin and I am the PowerTech Product Support Manager. I have been with Help/Systems for about twelve years and have worked in a number of capacities, including product trainer, sales representative, and most recently as part of the PowerTech team.

So, tell me what responsibilities you have as Product Support Manager?

As manager of the technical support staff, one of my main roles is overseeing the support you receive if you ever call in to PowerTech. I also worked closely with the development team over the last couple of months to prepare for the release of Network Security version 6.0.

So what is the big “hook” with Network Security version 6?

A couple of things really. First, we added the ability to set rules based on an object. What I mean by that is that we have created the incredibly powerful capability to be able to set rules that pertain to an object. This means it’s now possible to restrict and audit access to an object regardless of the syntax of the incoming request. In SQL for example, Select fld1, fld2 from myfile was previously seen as a different request than select fld1 from myfile. As humans, we could look at that and know it was pulling the same data, but the server couldn’t. This capability adds to the powerful transaction-based rules that Network Security has long been admired for.

We also have added a new selective activation process, so customers can decide which exit points are secured. This allows a staged approach to integrate Network Security into the operating system, something that is often important in large IT shops.

In addition, we have done a lot of infrastructure changes to ensure that the product works efficiently, and that the user interface is more intuitive. Some of these changes won’t really be seen directly by customers, but they are an important part of planning for future enhancements that we are designing.

Did we have dedicated programmers working on this product?

On a project of this size, we assign a lead developer who oversees the development aspect of the project. Obviously that is someone who is intimately familiar with the PowerTech Network Security solution. We also have other developers that are familiar with security solutions and have additional resources who are are assigned “as needed,” based on the tasks identified in the project plan. Of course, these folks all report through the development chain to a manager who is responsible for product design and coding.

So how do you test a pending product release?

All Help/Systems products go through a stringent testing process that includes unit testing, integration testing, systems testing, and acceptance testing. We have a number of dedicated testers—people whose sole job is to test new development projects. They build a test plan and divide up the different sections between themselves. There is also a support person involved because they know what customers want and how they use the software. Gregg Bury was the support person, and he spent some time reviewing the functionality and the usability of the interface, and making recommendations on improvement.

So what things did the testers look at?

They tested the changes and did regression testing to the core product to review every panel and function to identify whether there were any outstanding issues from prior releases. They also did performance and stress testing using scripts.

Did they test at every release level?

Absolutely, they tested at every release that we support—currently V5R4, V6R1, and V7R1

Presumably as the testers locate issues, they prioritize them?

They do; they rank items using a priority scheme and those with a priority 1 or 2 are the things that were addressed first.

As far as making the code available to customers, how is that done?

Well, the download page has already been updated to show the new level of the code. As far as getting the code onto a customer’s machine, that is one of the changes between the last release of 5.3 and the current release of 6.0. In 5.3, we had a save file that was downloaded to a PC and then manually extracted, sent to the server, and installed from there. With version 6.0, we have a self-extracting installer. It uploads and installs the code on the server, and performs the cleanup, leaving only the administration guide on the user’s PC.

Does the customer have to know anything about their configuration to perform that install?

Yes, they need to sign on with a user profile that has the necessary authority to perform an upload and a restoration of the application. The Installation Guide walks them through the necessary requirements and steps.

So there is a new Administration Guide?

Yes, there is.

Where can existing customers find it?

They can go to the support area of the PowerTech website, under the “customer login” link in the top navigation bar. The documentation is all listed at the top of the product download page. If someone doesn’t remember their support log-in, they can contact support at support@powertech.com

Did we do a BETA program?

Well, typically Help/Systems does more of a managed release or limited ship. We do not like to give a product to customers until we feel we are on top of the release. In this case, we had a few customers who offered to help because they needed one or more of the new features. So, we had a few people using the product and giving us feedback.

How do existing v5.x customers upgrade to Network Security version 6?

The product installs into a new library, which allows the system to remain protected during the installation process. There is a command to merge rules into Network Security version 6, and the activation process allows the redirection of the exit programs to the new version in the new library.

What do the developers do after a product is released?

First they celebrate! Then they go through a number of post-project processes. There is a documentation review to analyze our methodologies and to make any necessary improvements going forward. After that, they begin to look at the next project and the development manager re-deploys the development resources based on the next project plan. The good news/bad news with working for a company as creative as Help/Systems is that we never rest. In fact, there are already requirement lists for Network Security 7.0 that we are looking at.

Where can customers learn more about Network Security 6.0?

There is a “new features” document that is a great place to start. It shows what’s new, and what’s changed. For example, the authorization lists that we use to define the capabilities of the administrators have changed names. A customer will want to review who has access to the product—the documentation discusses all of that.

We are planning to do a “What’s New” Webinar in the coming weeks to talk about the new features in Network Security 6.0. Our Web-based Network Security training class will be based on version 6.0 later this year.

What about support of the new product version?

The support staff have all been trained on the new version and have been working with the software on our internal systems, as well as with the “early-ship” customers. Our international staff have also been working with the new version.

Any closing thoughts?

Just that we are very excited to have this new Network Security release now shipping. And, I’m looking forward to building the feature list for the next release.

So there you have it—an introduction to a PowerTech product release. If you have any extra questions for Jill, please send them to jill.martin@powertech.com

Cheers!

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Although it is normally nice to return home after a stint of living out of a suitcase, it was definitely a shame to leave the sun and surf of Orlando. There must be something about someone who lives in a “cooler” part of the world heading to warmer climates, as last week literally flew by. Today is rainy and cold in Minneapolis, and I am already aching to hop the quick three-hour flight back down to the sandy beaches. (Not that I spent any time there during the conference, of course!)

In all seriousness, the COMMON annual meeting was a great success for us. Three days of exposure at the expo talking to existing customers about their successes, as well as new faces that are learning how PowerTech can bring so much value to IBM i security projects.

While it seems a few of the attendees were unaware that PowerTech is a member of the Help/Systems family until they saw the joint booth and marquee, the number of people that walked by and indicated that they were already running tools from either one or both sides of the house was very impressive. Of course, we are not resting on our laurels: Today marks the official release of version 6 of Network Security, our leading exit point solution. While talking to expo attendees, it was also fun to discover when they were running just one of the PowerTech tools and to introduce them to another one of the modules.

I also enjoyed presenting three educational sessions on security topics to COMMON attendees:

• 7 Habits of Highly Secure Organizations

• State of IBM i Security Study 2010

• How To Prevent a Data Leak on IBM i

There were over 1000 attendees at this year’s event; up significantly from last year’s event in Reno, Nevada. As an exhibitor, this was quite noticeable from the foot traffic passing through the expo. Next year’s event in Minneapolis, MN will (hopefully) provide IBM with a great opportunity to represent the platform with resources from Rochester, MN. All of the Help/Systems companies will have a strong presence there, as always.

As I mentioned, Network Security’s new release began shipping this week. To celebrate, I will try to scoop an interview with Jill Martin, PowerTech’s product support manager, to tell us a little about the process of getting a product release out of the door, as well as some of the background on what is new and improved. Watch for that next week…

Last but not least, congratulations to Chris Smith of Wells Fargo, lucky winner of our Windows 7 Netbook giveaway last week.

Cheers!

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I am not sure what happened to Spring, but as Orlando enjoys temperatures in the mid-90s, one could say summer is already here.

I am in Central Florida this week to attend the 50^th Anniversary COMMON annual meeting and exposition, hosted at the Orlando Marriott resort. This is my first time touching down in Florida, and I have not been disappointed. Although I do not have the complexion to ever consider becoming a “sun worshipper,” there is an immediate recognition of why this state attracts thousands of visitors from around the world: Clean streets, pristine buildings, and endless entertainment and activities for people of every age. I arrived a couple of days early and drove over to Cocoa Beach, and then down to West Palm Beach to visit my “brother” from my time as a foreign exchange student. It was wonderful to reconnect with him after a couple of years.

The conference started on Sunday with the normal pre-meeting lab sessions, and then formally commenced on Monday after with a large opening session hosted by COMMON president Wayne Madden, and keynote speaker Ross Mauri, General Manager of IBM Power Systems.

The exposition has been very busy for all of the Help/Systems’ family of companies, significantly up from the event last year in Reno. With a COMMON call for more participation from its members, hopefully this is something that continues to rebuild and increase. It has been a pleasure to visit with existing and prospective customers alike. It seems security is still very much on the minds of the attendees, with interest from every industry and every size organization within those industries.

We have been signing up large numbers of attendees who are interested in winning the beautiful Gateway netbook, and have been handing out logo t-shirts from SEQUEL, Help/Systems, and of course, PowerTech by the box.

Well, I have to run as the expo is about to begin again. Based on the last couple of days, we will need every resource available on the expo floor; a great problem to have!

If you were not able to attend this year’s meeting, I hope to see you all at next year’s event in Help/Systems’ hometown of Minneapolis, MN, from May 1 through 4.

Have a wonderful week!

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I am sometimes asked to clarify whether PowerTech is a security company or a compliance company. I also sometimes read comments from industry experts criticizing organizations for wasting time, effort, and money on compliance solutions without ever really becoming secure. Well, before I can weigh in on that argument, we have to discuss the basic difference between “security” and “compliance.”

Security is the act of creating a defense to prevent something from being attacked or injured. In the IT world, this usually pertains to preventing unauthorized access to computer servers, and more importantly, the application data that resides on them. For most businesses, the value of the technology infrastructure is found in the application data as hardware can be replaced relatively easily. Data is usually our primary intellectual property, for example: our customer information, order history, vendor data, employee information, and credit card transactions. Securing the data asset is necessary to prevent damage—both accidental and malicious—and to ensure that the data remains the property of the organization that owns it, and to allow it to add value to the buiness operations.

Although obviously tied to security, compliance is simply the adherence (and proof of aderence) to a set of baseline standards and procedures. While you can be secure without being compliant, and even be compliant without truly being secure, the terms are often used interchangeably. When I consult with PowerTech customers, I am usually asked to help achieve compliance, often with Sarbanes-Oxley, or the payment card industry’s PCI-DSS standards. However, sometimes it is a worthwhile investment of time and money to set the compliance objective aside, and to simply review how secure you actually are.

Unfortunately (or thankfully, depending on your perspective!), it is not difficult to satisfy an auditor during an IBM i audit due to the fact that many of them really are not trained in auditing the i platform. While this sometimes leads to answering questions that don’t really pertain to us, it also means that we can potentially talk our way out of a compliance violation. Getting the auditors off our backs may seem advantageous in the short term, but it may be doing the organization a huge disservice in the long term.

One of the challenges is to educate customers that security is NOT a destination, but more of a journey. You can never really be 100% secure. There are new threats making security a continuously moving target, but regular compliance checks can help the server remain as secure as possible by assessing the risk of threats, and the vulnerability that you could become subjected to it. But in order to do that, we have to accept a valid set of standards as our baseline.

So, back to our original question: Is PowerTech a security or a compliance company? Well, I say that we provide solutions that can align with both security and compliance objectives. Network Security’s access control facility, and Authority Broker’s restriction on powerful users, are both designed to provide tangible value to an organization’s security defenses. Compliance Monitor, a compliance tool per se, provides visibility into the security audit journal to enable security officers to respond in a more timely manner to possible intrusion events. These tools can also help satisfy common compliance criteria. For example, Network Security can satisfy a compliance requirement such as “audit and control access for network initiated activities,” and Compliance Monitor can generate compliance scorecards to compare security policy to current settings.

In summary, I am a proponent of working to secure a system and data from common and known vulnerabilities first. This typically involves an audit of configuration and procedures against best-practices, the creation and maintenance of a detailed security policy. Once you do that, you can work to secure your environment using the policy as your guideline. Then you can “simply” monitor for ongoing compliance to your objectives and standards. PowerTech can help you navigate through the entire project cycle!

Have a wonderful week!

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Advisory Board

Last week was exciting, as PowerTech hosted an Advisory Board of customers from Minneapolis to the UK. The advisory board is a two-day session that is primarily an open forum about the security challenges that these companies are facing, and a discussion of how PowerTech solutions are helping mitigate many of them. It’s also an opportunity for our team to assign priorities for PowerTech’s future development initiatives that have been identified for the current product set, as well as to assess future directions.

PowerTech representatives spent time with each of the board members and performed product reviews to ensure that all of the members were up-to-date on the latest releases of our solutions. This also provided a great opportunity for networking between the members, and to get some insight into the creative ways that other organizations have deployed our products and services, especially in conjunction with many of the Robot solutions from Help/Systems.
Of course, it was not all work and no play. Although I won’t talk about individual scores—primarily as I didn’t get the highest—we all enjoyed a fun evening of bowling, pool, and dinner at a local entertainment center. The team-colored bowling shirts that had been designed for everyone ensured that the group competition remained intense but friendly.

Look for more of an overview of the Advisory Board in our upcoming edition of the PowerNews eNewsletter due at the beginning of next month.

IBM i 7.1 Released

IBM officially announced v7.1 of the IBM i operating system last week. Due to the numerous security enhancements introduced in V5R4 and v6.1, IBM gave some attention to other areas of the operating system this time around. However, there were some new details that were presented to our advisory board and internal staff by Jeff Uhling, a guest speaker that we had visit us from IBM Rochester, home of the “AS/400.”

Some high level details of enhancements include:

• Two new user profile parameters pertaining to automatic disablement of the profile after a defined period of non-use, or on a specific date. If you choose the inactivity option, you can select from 1-365 days. This functionality has been available via the Analyze Profile Activity (ANZPRFACT) command as part of the IBM Security Toolkit, but these parameters make it more mainstream.

• Encryption enhancements include a field-level exit program. While read-based triggers previously were unable to perform changes to the data being read, this exit point’s program allows the data to be selectively decrypted. This exit program is not specifically tied to encryption/decryption functions, so expect to see other uses dreamed up by the ‘i’ community.

• V7 enhances full disk encryption with the ability to start and stop encryption on existing auxiliary storage pools, instead of requiring a new ASP to be created.

Regulatory News

In regulatory news, Washington became the third state to pass legislation incorporating the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards to help financial institutions recover costs associated with credit/debit card breaches. Although there are some experts that doubt the effectiveness of such legislation (partly on the grounds that it really only affects those not already compliant with PCI regulations), HB1149 contains provisions for controlling organizations that process more than 6 million transactions per year. Recovery includes the cost of reissuing cards to Washington residents, as well as damages caused by defects in a vendor’s software or equipment related to encryption, if that defect caused the breach.

Have a wonderful week!

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The PowerTech team is busy this week with the PowerTech Advisory Board. Please check the blog next week for a recap of the advisory board!

It was a fantastic weekend here in Minneapolis, and certainly one of celebration! Good Friday through Easter Sunday is one of the highlights of the Christian calendar, but even if you have different beliefs, perhaps there were still chocolate eggs and bags of candy to enjoy, not to mention an absolutely glorious sunny and warm spring weekend—something Midwesterners are so incredibly ready for!

I spent the weekend with a couple of close friends and my two teenage kids, Jordan and Sydney, and we had a wonderful time out enjoying the sunshine, picnicking at a local park, riding some hair-raising rides at the (in)famous Mall of America, and paying a visit to the beautiful Minnehaha_Falls. Although not quite as dramatic as the other two spectacular falls I have been fortunate to see this year in Niagara and Portland, this waterfall is a favorite attraction for visitors to Minneapolis, and is situated in a beautiful park close the Minneapolis International airport.

This week is going to pass quickly, as we are busy preparing for the PowerTech Advisory Board, a consortium of large customers who will be converging on our corporate offices in Eden Prairie next week. The purpose of this session is to share strategic direction on PowerTech product development, as well as garner opinions and insight into the future security and compliance needs of our customers. We also conduct these sessions with the assistance of Help/Systems’ Robot customers, and always find them extremely beneficial in helping define needs, and to ensure that we continue to meet (and hopefully exceed) the high expectations that our customers have.

We are reeling a little from the fevered interest we have been receiving for the updated 2010 “State of IBM i Security” released last week. I conducted a Webinar with Jill Martin—who did much of the work around the updated copy—on the day we published it, and were subsequently inundated with requests for copies of the study. We also received a wealth of interest in the use of our free assessment tool that (optionally) provides the data used in the report each year. Go to www.powertech.com for access to the full study, and to register for your own free system review using our Compliance Assessment tool.

I will also be teaching the PowerTech security workshop with local partner MSI Systems Integrators here in Bloomington. This is the last scheduled session, although we are discussing Chicago and Dallas as possible future host cities. If you think that you are in a geography that we should be visiting, send me a note at robin.tatam@powertech.com. I’d love to hear from you.

Have a wonderful week!