Denver Event
August 23-28, 2009
Denver Convention Center

Denver Event Notices

1. (New) If you are a speaker and received a notice to assign your session to a Hot Track, please ignore.  Your Project team has taken care of this.
2. The Conference Schedule is available online, and the link is availabe on the SHARE home page.  Browse by Project for the Security and Audit Project.
3. (New) If you are a speaker and haven't started on your presentation(s), now is a good time to begin.
4. Online Registration is open.
5. Early Bird conference rates end on June 26th.
6. Discounted hotel rates are available through July 21.

 Security and Audit Project News

The SHARE Board scheduling summit concluded in late April, and the schedule has been set.  It can be browsed in the Conference Schedule from the SHARE.org home page.  Our thanks to all who submitted presentations for consideration, and we are very sorry that we could not accommodate everyone. If your presentation was accepted, you should have received a notification in mid-May.  If you did not or are not sure, check the Conference Schedule, searching by Speaker for your name.

Decisions were made to avoid competition with General Sessions and also to avoid Project competition with its own Theme sessions. These changes make sense, but did limit the number of presentation slots available.  With a focus on user presentations and relevance, we ruled out sessions of similar content, and sessions that had not been well attended in the past.  We also worked to combine submissions into co-presentations to gain as much coverage as possible.

The SHARE Security and Audit Project

The Security and Audit Project is concerned with enterprise-wide security management, which includes security, auditability, and disaster recovery of corporate data, software, and hardware.  We are concerned with security management on the desktop, in the client/server environment, on the mainframe, over the Internet, or within any heterogeneous network.  The Security and Audit Project provides information on security management tools, policies and procedures that address identity management, data integrity, confidentiality, access control, and systems management -- from within a single enterprise, or across public or private networks, such as the Internet, intranet, or extranet.
The customers of the Security and Audit Project are, but not limited to:

• Security, database, and data administrators who must integrate and manage security policies across the various enterprise platforms.
• AN and client/server administrators who are responsible for security and disaster recovery of their systems.
• Systems management personnel responsible for managing the enterprise networks and other infrastructure services such as mainframes and subsystems, such as CICS, TSO, JES, etc.
• Anyone responsible for installing, administering, auditing, or modifying the RACF, ACF2 and TopSecret families of products.
• People responsible for writing secure applications that meet accreditation standards.
• Department and senior management requiring information on what the security, audit, and disaster recovery issues are, as well as information on developing and implementing workable solutions in their organizations.
• End-users who have, as employees of an organization, inherent security responsibilities for safeguarding information entrusted to their care.

The Security and Audit Project offers several products and services to SHARE and its attendees. These include, but are not limited to:

• Education for the attendee regarding security issues, trends, and solutions to security problems on the various platforms and technologies, such as viruses and encryption, disaster recovery development, implementation and maintenance, etc.
• A forum for submitting security, audit, and recovery requirements to IBM for their product lines. This includes RACF, as well as other IBM products that currently have or should have security issues addressed.
  White Papers which are intended to influence the information technology strategies of IBM, when developing new products, or enhancing existing product lines.
• A forum for Security Managers and practitioners to meet and discuss common problems and solutions in the security, audit and recovery arenas.
• Providing consulting to, or speakers for, other Projects that require security, audit or disaster recovery issues to be addressed, and need additional resources to meet their requirements.