UPDATE: New 2010 study released.

PowerTech publishes a popular study of the configuration of IBM System i servers each year, called The State of IBM i Security. Now in its seventh year, we continue to see many of the same vulnerabilities reported to us through 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

View this informative Webinar for insight into the 2010 edition of the study and to learn what steps your own organization should take to address the same commonly overlooked and dangerous security exposures.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE Compliance Assessment, as well as a copy of the full 2010 study.

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

Wednesday, March 31, 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 Product Support Manager for PowerTech and brings a strong System i background to any security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry, including technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

At one time or another, every system administrator and security officer faces the question “who did it?” IBM i can audit numerous events and you should be using its capabilities. However, what happens after you collect the event data? How do you convert the raw data into useful information?

Auditors and internal policy controls often require the review of numerous security details and configuration metrics. Not only is this time-consuming—especially when multiplied across many systems—it’s a resource-intensive process. Often, we do it only when we have to instead of as part of an ongoing security plan.

Join this Webinar to understand:

• How to configure IBM i to record system and user events
• What activities can (and cannot) be audited
• What mechanisms are available to extract audit data from the audit journal
• What other information does an auditor want to see
• How to step up to the next level of audit reporting with PowerTech Compliance Monitor

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE Compliance Assessment.

Presenters
Main Presenter: Jill Martin, PowerTech
Co-Presenter: Paul “Paulie” Culin, PowerTech

Wednesday, March 24, 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

Jill Martin is Product Support Manager for the PowerTech Group. She has more than 19 years of System i  experience, including 5 years at IBM working in product support and testing. She has been educating customers on IBM midrange systems in areas such as backup and recovery, OS upgrades, partition management, and security for more than 10 years. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

Paul “Paulie” Culin is a Senior Security Engineer with the PowerTech Group. As a product expert, his role at PowerTech includes managing client training and implementation services, as well as hosting security presentations, Webinars, and product demonstrations. Paul has thirteen years of experience in the security field.

Although the IBM System i is one of the most securable servers available, 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 data or the server.

PowerTech has compiled a list of the ten most common and important IBM i security risks. We will share them with you to help you identify your own vulnerabilities and prioritize their correction. Attend this informative Webinar to gain insight into the top ten security vulnerabilities and recommendations of 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, March 3, 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 Product Support Manager for PowerTech and brings a strong System i background to any security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry, including technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the
security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

Everyone knows that security is important, but getting started on the road to compliance can be confusing and intimidating. Understanding common vulnerabilities helps you focus your attention and resources on the areas that need the most help.

We all want “best-practice” security, but what are top organizations doing to achieve and maintain it? Attend this session to learn the details about how to develop the seven habits that are part of daily life for secure organizations.

You’ll learn how to:

• Break the Ostrich Syndrome
• Develop a Security Policy
• Assess Current Standing
• Perform Security Event Logging and Review
• Use “Best of Breed” Technologies
• Monitor for Ongoing Compliance
• Plan For The Future

This session examines what each of these habits means to the System i and helps you make sure that you don’t become the next security statistic.

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

Wednesday, February 24, 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 a PowerTech Technical Services Manager, brings a strong System i background to any security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry, including technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

The IBM i operating system provides the ability to audit system and user events. But, after the event data is collected, the challenge becomes how to disseminate the raw data, in real time, as useful information.

Join this webinar to understand:

• How to configure the IBM i operating system to record system and user events.
• How to add PowerTech Network Security to audit network-based events such as FTP and ODBC.
• How to send real-time alert notifications as system log events to a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) console using Interact from PowerTech.
• How to send real-time alert notifications to e-mail addresses and cell phones using Robot/Alert from Help/Systems.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

Featuring a live Compliance Assessment demo.

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

Wednesday, February 17, 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

Jill Martin a PowerTech Technical Services Manager, brings a strong System i background to any security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry, including 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, he manages client training and implementation engagements, and hosts security presentations, webinars, and product demonstrations.

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

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

Featuring a live Authority Broker demo.

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

Wednesday, February 10, 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 a PowerTech Technical Services Manager, brings a strong System i background to any security discussion. Jill has worked in a number of roles in the industry, including technical trainer, sales account manager, and most recently as a key member of the security team. Contact Jill at jill.martin@powertech.com.

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.

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.

PowerTech’s annual “State of System i Security” study shows that the vast majority of organizations are still reliant on menu security to protect their data. Unfortunately, users have access to numerous interfaces that completely circumvent these controls, and facilitate easy ways to view, update, and even delete data directly in the database. If you are required to comply with any type of regulation, or if you simply want to ensure the integrity of you 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, as well as how to implement policy to restrict access to only those users who need it.

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

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

Wednesday, December 9, 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.

Statistics suggest that it’s not a matter of if you will suffer some form of corporate data loss, but when. Giant corporations, with a significant investment in security infrastructure, have found themselves on the wrong side of the headlines. If it can happen to them, it can happen to you! Building a plan that encompasses both security and compliance controls, as well as incident planning ensures that you minimize the risk, and know how to react if the worst case scenario occurs.

Join this webinar to hear discussion of:

• Common causes of a Data Breach
• Security Incident Response (SIR) planning
• Manic response vs. Measured response
• Breach cost projection / price of protection
• What types of IBM i activities can (and cannot) be audited
• What mechanisms are available to perform IBM i audit data forensics and intrusion alerting

Attendees are eligible to receive a FREE compliance assessment.

Products Featured
PowerTech Compliance Monitor
PowerTech Interact

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

Wednesday, November 18, 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.