RE: iSeries Security in Computerworld

Jim,

Is it fair to say this is a study of customers who >contacted Power

Tech, and not a random representative study >of the iSeries community?

It is a self selected sample.  I've heard people suggest that our
results could be lower than the norm because people who run the
assessment must think they have a problem.  In some cases this could be
true, but in other cases we will run the assessment on systems where the
administrator is completely confident that their system is pristine.  We
have done over 600 of these Flash Audit's over the last three years, and
the results are consistent enough for me to conclude that the study data
is an accurate reflection of the System i install base. 

So, yes, it is fair to say that this is not a random sample.    But I
don't know how to get a random sample in this market without spending a
million bucks with a polling firm (wait - I wonder if the critics would
agree to call it a random sample if we could get everyone on the
Midrange-l run the assessment? :) ).

In any case, though the collection mechanism is not what I would like it
to be, I still believe it is an accurate reflection of what the average
System i security setup looks like today.

jte

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Is it fair to say this is a study of customers who
contacted Power Tech,
and not a random representative study of the iSeries
community?
I'm not trying to minimize the effect, put the percentages
listed seemed
high and some may read this as a study of the whole
community.