Herzliya, Israel – March 25, 2010 – Raz-Lee Security will demonstrate its advanced Power i security solutions at Common 2010, Booth 610, on May 3-6 at the Hilton Orlando in Orlando, Florida.

COMMON is the annual meeting of the COMMON membership and the largest gathering of the Power Systems user community. COMMON 2010 will mark a significant milestone of 50 years – a true testament to the strength and vibrancy of this professional user community.

The Annual Meeting is COMMON’s largest educational event of the year, with four full days of in-depth IBM i and AIX education that includes all-day pre-conference workshops, all-day Integrated Seminars, open labs and a wide variety of regular-length sessions.

The conference’s Opening Session will demonstrate an unprecedented level of support and recognition of COMMON by IBM, with a special message from Sam Palmisano, IBM’s Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as a keynote address by Mark Shearer, VP, Marketing, Communications and Sales Support, IBM Systems and Technology Group.  

Raz-Lee Security will take the opportunity to display, among other products and capabilities:

• Native Object Security – enables system administrators to easily define target security levels per object and object type, and to check for inconsistencies between actual and planned object security settings. The product also enables using generic object names, and includes full reporting features.
• User Profile & System Value Replication - synchronizes user profile definitions, user passwords and system values between different systems and LPARs, allowing for exceptions as needed in Production, Test or Development systems. Synchronization is accomplished with minimum overhead to both the actual systems and the personnel mandated with managing user profile information. The product also replicates system value definitions between systems, using “optimal” system values defined in Compliance Evaluator and “baseline” site-defined values.
• Compliance Evaluator – enables managers a quick, comprehensive view of the compliance scores for all systems in the enterprise and provides detailed compliance-related reports with various levels of detail.

 ”The 50^th anniversary of COMMON and IBM’s ever-increasing participation at COMMON both attest to the solid position of the Power i in today’s enterprises,” said Shmuel Zailer, CEO, Raz-Lee Security. “As renowned Power i experts and enthusiastic supporters of iManifest (the international initiative promoting the Power i), we are delighted to witness this development and are confident that it will lift this unique platform to new heights.”

Here’s an actual case of where iSecurity, Raz-Lee’s Power i Security solution, could have saved a European bank, LGT, a lot headaches, expenses and bad press.

On February 26th, 2008 it was reported that at least eight countries were investigating their citizens for allegedly hiding financial assets at LGT Liechtenstein, an offshore bank.

The investigations were based upon the details of the bank’s clients obtained by the German secret service from a former bank employee. Using these details, German authorities investigated and prosecuted hundreds of people listed in the stolen data. At least one of the people who were investigated committed suicide, others were imprisoned, and still others were forced to leave their job at LGT. Naturally, Germany was able to make many millions of dollars in unpaid tax revenue on these non-reported assets.

On February 8th, 2010, in a decision described as “Awesome” in Business Insider website, a German court ordered the LGT subsidiary to pay more than $10M in damages to a client for failing to inform him that his confidential details had been stolen and handed to authorities, thereby harming his chances of escaping criminal penalties for tax evasion!

The remarkable part of this story is that back in February 2008, Raz-Lee’s Swiss distributor had spoken to this bank about iSecurity and reported the following:

“This bank has iSeries systems, and we spoke with the IT Managers, staff and other managers there. Their response to our presentation of iSecurity’s auditing, security and compliance solutions was something like “We have security, we don’t think we need security, maybe in the future.”

So now, LGT encountered this terrible mess!

Let’s hope that YOUR company installs iSecurity before the worst happens…

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Raz-Lee Security, a leading supplier of information security solutions for IBM Power i servers (iSeries/AS/400) together with its North American business partner, Software Engineering of America, participated in the IBM i Essentials Virtual Conference held on March 9-10th.

This unique online event included top-notch educational webcasts live from industry experts, exhibitor booths staffed with live team members holding online chats, and networking with industry peers. As many as 16 webcasts will be held, by Jeff Uehling from IBM, Mike Pavlak from Zend and others, covering all the information required for keeping up-to-date in the IBM i world. The show was attended by many prominent players in the AS/400 security market.

At the show, Raz-Lee and SEA showcased the iSecurity Compliance Evaluator solution, which enables managers to quickly check the compliance of their systems with industry and corporate policies using customizable user-friendly reports. In addition, Application Security, Authority on Demand, Native Object Security and User & System Value Replication solutions will be spotlighted.

“This virtual show extends the reach of a traditional conference, providing us with globe-spanning opportunities to show off our advanced technology,” said Eli Spitz, VP Business Development, Raz-Lee Security. “I am confident that in such a venue, our advanced Power i security solutions will generate far-ranging awareness.”

Raz-Lee Security will be participating in the 11th Information Security Conference, to be held on March 17^th, in Petach Tikva, Israel.

The conference will be attended by CEOs, IT Security managers and experts, IT Managers, Industrial companies’ managers, business development managers and others. A multitude of lectures will be offered by top experts from IBM, Juniper Networks, Bezeq Telecommunications and NetApp, as well as by the President of the Israeli IT Security and Auditing Association. In addition, a panel will be held on the subject of the Revolution in IT Security Regulation.

At the conference, Raz-Lee will showcase nuBridges Protect, a state-of-the-art encryption and tokenization solution distributed in Israel. nuBridges Protect secures sensitive data at rest in database fields, files, applications and associated backup storage, to help companies comply with mandates like the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and government privacy acts.

This conference is Raz-Lee’s second local event this quarter, following the IT GRC (Government, Risk Management & Compliance) annual event in Tel Aviv on February 18th.

“Raz-Lee is highly active and well-established in Israel, boasting prominent customers, including the largest banks and health funds in the country,” said Eli Spitz, VP Business Development, Raz-Lee Security. “Our nuBridges Protect solution is the only solution in Israel combining both encryption & tokenization, and there is ever-growing interest in the solution among the leading enterprises in Israel.”

For more information (Hebrew) click here.