Creating an Information Security Infrastructure
How to protect your data that is growing at 120% per year
Sandy Nannini, Key's leading security specialist, has contributed a significant article on "Creating An Information Security Infrastructure" to the January electronic edition of Database Trends & Applications. In the article, Sandy illustrates how you can build a security infrastructure to handle the challenges that security management faces today for:

• Perimeter defense
• Protecting access to the database
• Protecting data at rest
• Identity management and access control
• Protecting data in motion
• Encryption

Solution Center for IT Security
Invaluable reference material portal for web visitors
Key's Security Portal & Solution Center covers Internet security basics, IBM ISS solutions and managed security, PCI compliance & security, hackers and malware, identity theft, combating pfishers, data leakage, high-level security frameworks, and reports on security by Gartner and Forrester.

This portal/solution center contains over 40 links to white papers, case studies, webinar replays, press & research articles, and product descriptions. Recent additions to Key's Security Solution Center include Holistic Approach to a Broad Range of Data Security Challenges and Addressing the Business Value of Security white papers.

It is one of five Solution Centers listed on Key's company home page. The others are Exchange 2007 Migration, VoIP, BladeServers and Virtualization and Key's Business Partner Innovation Center. The BladeServers and Virtualization Solution Center has recently undergone a major update; you'll find latest articles and white papers on how virtualization is enhancing IBM BladeServers.

Security Data Loss and Leakage
Webinar replay: Data Leakage – Combating IT's Biggest Security Threat
Organizations now face a more damaging IT security threat -- data leakage from INSIDE their network, either unintended or malicious. At Key's February 28th webinar, Will Irace, IBM Security Solutions Architect, presented Combating IT's Biggest Security Threat - Data Leakage. He discussed a completely new framework for thinking about data leakage that turns the way people normally think about security on its head.

Irace also reported that the full list of direct costs due to data loss includes internal investigation, notification of loss, crisis management, regulatory compliance and loss of future business. IBM says the average cost for each compromised record is $186 and the typical security breach costs a company from $90 to $305 per lost record.

View the archived webinar Combating Data Leakage here.

Fact: The seriousness of data leakage was recently underscored in a survey where 77 percent questioned said they would stop shopping at any store where there was a loss of confidential customer files.

Key Upcoming Show Activity
Key is continuing its focus on solutions for security managers at two shows.

March 11 – 13: Data Protection Summit Key will exhibit IBM ISS security solutions. This is the only conference in Southern California focused on the all aspects of data protection. Learn how to protect information, avoid data breaches, achieve regulatory compliance and provide cost-effective backup & restore. For complementary registration after March 6 ($1,295 value), please contact the organizer at info@dataprotectionsummit.com. About conference

June 30: 15th Annual OCEAN Catch the Wave Conference This is the biggest 1-day System i education day in the U.S. Key joins outstanding speakers Jon Paris, Larry Bolhuis, Joe Pluta, Susan Gantner, Sharon Hoffman and Craig Pelkie at this COMMON user group event. Key will present on network security for the i5/OS environment. Key's security specialist Sandy Nannini will be on hand at the conference's Vendor Expo to discuss IBM ISS security solutions. Conference information.

Key Touted in Article for Sponsoring PGA Golf Tournament
Key gives back to the community by sponsoring the Northern Trust Open
For the third year in a row, Key Information Systems sponsored the PGA Golf Tourney in Los Angeles. And this time MC PressOnline ran an article on Key's philosophy of giving back to the community in IT Companies Shell Out for Charity. Formerly known as the Nissan Open, this year the sponsor name for the event was the Northern Trust Open. The classic golfing charity event that began in 1926 was won by a tourney favorite, Phil Mickelson, who collected $1,116,000 out of the $6.2 million purse.

Pete Elliot, Key's Director of Marketing, said, "We managed to raise $35,000 for this outstanding golfing event with our co-sponsors: AVNET, Azaleos, Brocade, IBM Tivoli and VMware. The funds we raised were to support the community service programs sponsored by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce." Elliot concluded, "If you've got it, you owe it to your local community to share it... it's all part of the green experience."

Latest Security News Links
A Blueprint for Security
IBM ForwardView; February 2008
Learn how an IBM security assessment can help you create a blueprint for security. System-wide checkups gauge four areas where information security is vital. Key can work with you to see how these assessments from IBM ISS can strengthen your security strategy.

Product Lines: Some Security Concerns Playing Possum
System iNetwork; February 6, 2008
As System i professionals, we are used to a platform that offers strong protection built right into the operating system. We feel safe. But are we really safe?

Security is an Ecosystem
TechRepublic; February 4, 2008
Improving your security involves not only choosing the best tools and techniques for yourself, but advocating them for others -- and educating others as well. Security is an ecosystem — not a product.

FREE offer: IBM ISS Security Health Scan
You can obtain a Security Health Scan from IBM that checks for vulnerabilities in your network and helps you avoid security threats. This process uses IBM, a trusted outside source, to check your external facing network for vulnerabilities. The benefits:

• Learn about your security through IBM's testing process
• Results are confidential
• No cost or obligation

Download the IBM Free Security Health Scan fact sheet to learn more.

If you choose to share the scan results with Key, we can then help you to interpret them and plan corrective action. To find out more from Key, contact Sandy Nannini at snannini@keyinfo.com.

Reader Feedback
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Newsletter Editor
Dennis Fletcher, dfletcher@keyinfo.com, 949-770-2793.

Publisher
Key Information Systems is the leading IT technology business partner in the western United States, specializing in solutions for corporate infrastructure, business continuity and storage. Key is an IBM Premier Business Partner, AVNET Premier Business Partner and Microsoft Certified Partner. The company also represents brands such as Brocade, Novell, VMware and Marathon Technologies. Key's high-availability, fault-tolerant solutions are backed by a complete range of professional services including critical assessment, financing, systems integration, installation, training and maintenance. With one of the most knowledgeable and best trained teams in the industry, the company has been listed as one of Inc. magazine's Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in Los Angeles and has received Leadership, Beacon and Fast Track Awards from IBM as well as a Top Partner Award from AVNET. Corporate headquarters are in Woodland Hills, CA, with additional offices in San Francisco, Newport Beach and Phoenix, AZ. An IBM-authorized Business Partner Innovation Center is maintained at the Woodland Hills location. For more information, contact Key Information Systems, 21700 Oxnard St., Suite 250, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, 877-442-3249, info@keyinfo.com, www.keyinfo.com.