Did you know that IBM i includes powerful auditing features? In fact, our own class-leading audit reporting solution leverages the information captured by the operating system. Join this Webinar—based on content presented at the 2009 COMMON conference—to learn about activating and configuring the IBM i built-in auditing capabilities.

You’ll learn about:

• Security audit journal
• Audit data management
• Configuring the audit system values
• A user profile’s *AUDIT special authority
• Object auditing
• User auditing
• Basic reporting capabilities
• Advanced reporting options

You’ll also learn about what system auditing does NOT capture, and how to prevent it from causing you to fail an audit.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

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

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
10 a.m. Central Standard Time (16:00 GMT)
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Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bios
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.

Jill Martin is Technical Services Manager with the PowerTech Group, and brings a strong IBM i background to a security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry including a Help/Systems technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

PowerTech’s annual “State of System i Security” study shows that the vast majority of organizations still rely on menu security to protect their data. Unfortunately, users have access to numerous interfaces that completely bypass these controls, and make it easy to view, update, and even delete data in the database. If you need to comply with any type of regulation, or if you simply want to ensure the integrity of your application data, learning about the openness of these interfaces is critical.

Attend this informative Webinar to learn more about IBM i security and how to close the “backdoors” not covered by traditional menu security schemes. You’ll also learn how to implement policies that restrict access to only those users who need it.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

Featuring a live Network Security demo.

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

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
10 a.m. Central Standard Time (16:00 GMT)
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Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bios
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.

Jill Martin is Technical Services Manager with the PowerTech Group, and brings a strong IBM i background to a security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry including a Help/Systems technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

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 year, the study identifies many of the same vulnerabilities, suggesting that IBM i shops are still not where they need to be in terms of security and auditing. Join us for this Webinar where you’ll learn how to get started auditing your IBM i server, and how PowerTech’s compliance assessment tool can perform a personalized review of your environment—in under 15 minutes! You’ll learn about auditing these critical 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. Featuring a live Compliance Assessment demo. Presenters Main Presenter: Robin Tatam, PowerTech Co-Presenter: Jill Martin, PowerTech Wednesday, February 3, 2010 10 a.m. Central Standard Time (16:00 GMT) Check our chart for your local time > Cost Free of charge Registration To register, please visit our WebEx site. Speaker Bios 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. Jill Martin is Technical Services Manager with the PowerTech Group, and brings a strong IBM i background to a security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry including a Help/Systems technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

Although your IBM i server is one of the most securable platforms available today, it doesn’t come that way from the factory. PowerTech’s “State of System i Security” study has shown that most organizations still fail to take adequate steps to secure their critical data, or the server itself.

PowerTech has compiled a “Top 10″ of the most common and important IBM i security risks. Attend this informative Webinar to learn how you can identify potential security exposures on your system. You’ll gain an understanding of the top ten security vulnerabilities and some recommendations about how to fix them.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

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

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
10 a.m. Central Standard Time (16:00 GMT)
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Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bios
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.

Jill Martin is Technical Services Manager with the PowerTech Group, and brings a strong IBM i background to a security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry including a Help/Systems technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

PowerTech publishes a popular study of the configuration of System i servers each year, called The State of System i Security. Now in its sixth year, we continue to see many of the same vulnerabilities reported to us via an anonymous auditing process.

The report includes a review of six main audit categories:

• Network access
• System values
• User settings
• Administrative rights
• Public authority to data
• Event auditing

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment, as well as a copy of the full 2009 study.

View this informative webinar to gain insight into the 2009 edition of the study, and to learn what steps your own organization should take to address the same commonly overlooked and dangerous security exposures.

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

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
10 a.m. Central Standard Time (16:00 GMT)
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Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bios
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.

Jill Martin is Technical Services Manager with the PowerTech Group, and brings a strong IBM i background to a security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry including a Help/Systems technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

One of the greatest challenges that an organization faces when securing an IBM i environment is protecting the system from the very people who are also charged with its care: programmers, administrators, and security officers. While these power users often need access to restricted objects and commands, they rarely need that level of access 24 hours a day, and definitely not without accountability.

Join this important session to learn about the vulnerabilities associated with powerful users. Discover Authority Broker, an award winning approach to regaining the control that your auditors demand, while still allowing your administrators and programmers to do their jobs.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

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Presenters
Main Presenter: Jill Martin, PowerTech
Co-presenter: Paul Culin, PowerTech

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
10 a.m. Central Standard Time (16:00 GMT)
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Cost
Free of charge

Registration
To register, please visit our WebEx site.

Speaker Bios
Jill Martin is Technical Services Manager with the PowerTech Group, and brings a strong IBM i background to a security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry including a Help/Systems technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

Paul ‘Paulie’ Culin is a security advisor with the PowerTech Group. As a product expert, his role at PowerTech includes managing numerous client training and implementation engagements, as well as hosting security presentations, webinars, and product demonstrations.

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.