Security for BPCS #5 ---> By Invitation Only

Dear Jim  ~  response #5,

Response #2 asserted that 100% perfect application of BPCS' 
SYS600 functionality wouldn't prepare your company for a SOX 
audit ... unless your OS/400 security is architected to mitigate 
SSA group profile risks. Responses #3 and #4 then spoke about 
how Bill of Health Security Diagnostic reports can help your 
company mitigate OS/400 security risks.

Let's now go back to the SYS600 topic inherent in your 
e-mail below.

We've heard many complaints that SOX practice audits are 
consuming enormous amounts of IS time answering questions 
like: "give me a list of all BPCS users that can run program 
INVxxx." To get those answers, a security administrator must 
sequentially access each BPCS user profile and analyze the 
several ways usage authority can be acquired by a given user 
for a given program (or warehouse or company or whatever).

That's C-L-U-N-K-Y.

BPCS warrior Al Macintyre calls it "SECURITY BY OBSCURITY."

That's why our "By Invitation Only" (tm) software has been so well 
received. With "By Invitation Only," a couple of menu selections 
will immediately display comprehensive responses to any BPCS 
usage question a SOX auditor could dream up.
http://www.unbeatenpathintl.com/BIOnly-start/source/1.html

There's a free demo available via e-mail.

Please see these subsequent responses for BPCS/SOX topics:

  #6 ~~ learn how the PCAOB interpretation of SOX compels
             external auditors to look at the details of each BPCS business
             processes to identify internal control deficits and the
             consequent BPCS data integrity issues.

  #7 ~~ information about our award-winning Stitch-in-Time (tm)
             Data Integrity software that enables you to respond to SOX
             auditor inquiries about the integrity of DB2 information.

  #8 ~~ introduction to several other clever and affordable
             Stocking Stuffers (tm) for SOX products designed to help
             enterprises prepare for Sarbanes-Oxley.

God bless,

Milt Habeck
Unbeaten Path International

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From: Reinardy, James
To: bpcs-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:17 PM
Subject: DB2 Users

Hello All,

We are running BPCS 6.04 on iSeries.  I am trying to understand the
relationship between iSeries users, BPCS users and DB2 file access. The
concern is arising because of Sarbanes-Oxley.  Our auditors are
suggesting that we need to lock down file privileges against the BPCS
database, but we are a little unclear about what user BPCS uses for data
access against DB2.  Is it the individual user that is logged into BPCS,
that user with a changed profile (SSA perhaps vs. *PUBLIC), or some other
generic user?

The idea here is to restrict access on a file by file basis for AS400Query,
SQL queries, ODBC connections, etc.  However, we want to be sure if
we lock things down that we don't break BPCS screens and batch
jobs.  Any suggestions on how to improve our understanding in this area
would be appreciated.

Regards,

Jim Reinardy
Director-IS
Badger Meter, Inc.