Information Security and IT Audit Newsletters and User Groups

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Quick Links: HOME PAGE CONTACT US INFOSEC and RACF TRAINING HG04: Effective RACF HG05: Advanced RACF HG06: UNIX FOR RACF ADMINS Seminar Schedule/ Registration/ Locations/Hotels -Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC -Clearwater, FL -Raleigh, NC IT and z/OS AUDIT TRAINING HG64:How to Audit MVS, RACF, ACF2, TopSecret, CICS, DB2, and MQ Series Security HG65:How to Audit z/OS with USS, TCP/IP, FTP, and the Internet Seminar Schedule/ Registration/ Locations -Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC -Clearwater, FL NEWSLETTERS AND USER GROUPS ARTICLES The SERVAUTH Resource Class How to Write a Security Policy Trends in MVS Security How to Audit Windows NT Security PRIVACY STATEMENT ABOUT US OTHER INFO SOURCES		Newsletters and User Groups Please click on the the newletter or user group info you want below: User Groups for Information Security RACF User Groups (RUGS) User Groups (Non-RACF) Newsletters ---The Mainframe Audit News (MA News) is a free, email newsletter for mainframe auditors, especially those auditing IBM mainframes using the MVS, OS/390, or z/OS software. Please click here to learn more or to subscribe. --- The RACF User News is a free, postal mail, newsletter published two times per year for users of RACF, IBM's strategic software for computer security. (RACF is part of the Secureway Security Server software package from IBM.) The RACF User News contains practical information on an "as-is" basis for all users of RACF. It also contains information about RACF User Groups, including announcements of meetings of the New York RACF Users Group. Please click here to subscribe or to see back issues online. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page User Groups Other Than RACF User Groups The following web sites have links to many other user groups: SPCI User Groups List ESERVER USER GROUP LIST Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page RACF User Groups (RUGs) Click below to get information about a RACF Users Group: New York RACF Users Group Baltimore/Washington RUG Kentucky-Ohio-Indiana (KOIRUG) RACF Users Group RUGONE (RUG Of New England) South Florida RACF Users Group Denver Colorado RACF Users Group Albany, NY RACF Users Group Greater St. Louis RACF Users Group Illinois RACF Users Group San Francisco RACF Users Group Tampa Florida RACF Users Group RACF Users Group of the Carolinas Southern California RACF Users Group Jacksonville Florida RACF Users Group Texas RACF Users Group Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page NYRUG (New York RACF Users Group) (To subscribe to the 2-times-a-year RACF Users News with information on NYRUG meetings, leave your postal address at (301) 229-7187.) The next meeting of the New York RACF Users Group (NYRUG) will be Oct. 20, 2009 at DTCC. For security reasons, you must pre-register at least one day before the meeting or you will not be permitted to enter. Registering is easy, please see the following link. For complete directions, and a link to register for the next meeting, please go to: www.stuhenderson.com/NYCRUG1.pdf Please note that from now on, speakers will not be providing printed copies of handouts at the meeting. Instead, the handouts will be placed in pdf format on the web. You are invited to print copies for yourself and your friends before the meeting. Links to handouts for upcoming meetings will be placed RIGHT HERE (RACF User Group Handouts) www.stuhenderson.com/XMAINTXT.HTM#handouts when they are ready. Thanks to DTCC Inc. for hosting both the NYRUG and Tampa RUG meetings. Our last meeting's agenda, was: 1. 09:30-10:00 Pre-meeting Social Hour 2. 10:00-10:15 Announcements (Stu Henderson, Hayim Sokolsky) 3. 10:15-11:15 Your Friend SERVAUTH or How To Protect Your IP Stack (Hayim Sokolsky) 4. 11:15-11:30 Break 5. 11:30-12:30 RACF Command Tips (Bob Hansel) 6. 12:30-01:30 Lunch 7. 01:30-03:00 What to Expect from an Enterprise-wide Mainframe Security Audit (David Hayes) (with a break in the middle) 8. 03:00-03:15 Break 9. 03:15-04:15 More neat reporting stuff with ICETOOL, SMF, and other stuff (Mark Nelson) Times and speakers are subject to change. Useful information about RACF and NYRUG meetings is available in the current and past issues of the RACF USER NEWS . Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page BWRUG (Baltimore/Washington RACF Users Group) (To subscribe to the 2-times-a-year RACF Users News with information on BWRUG meetings, leave your postal address at (301) 229-7187.) BWRUG (Baltimore/Washington RUG): Next Meeting The BWRUG will not meet this season. If you would like to volunteer to host a meeting, please contact Stu Henderson at (301) 229-7187. Please click Here for Most Recent RACF User News Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page RUGONE (RUG Of New England) Contact Bob Hansel at (617) 969-8211 or at R.Hansel@rshconsulting.com Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Kentucky-Ohio-Indiana RUG (KOIRUG, formerly Cincinnati RACF Users Group For more info, go to www.rshconsulting.com/rugs/KOIRUG Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page South Florida RACF Users Group Call Katherine Ramos at (305) 995-3835 Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Denver Colorado RACF Users Group Call Don Huber at (303) 967-7150 for info. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Albany NY RACF Users Group Call Manny Morales at (518) 285-2554 for info. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Greater St. Louis RACF Users Group Call June Dabbs at (314) 362-0836 for info. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Illinois RACF Users Group Call Patricia Diya (630) 944-5142 for info. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Sacramento RACF Users Group) Call Remillo DuBose at(916) 558-4184 for info. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Carolinas RACF Users Group) Call Bill Sharber of First Citizens Bank at (919) 779-8148 for information on the Carolinas RUG. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page San Francisco RACF Users Group) Call Sue Odneal (510) 926-3035 or Sue.Odneal@ncal.kaiperm.org for information on the San Francisco RACF Users Group. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Tampa RACF Users Group) Call Jim Cuddy at (800) 237-0738 ext 34233 for information on the Tampa Florida RACF Users Group. The next meeting of the Tampa RACF Users Group will be Oct. 20, 2009 at DTCC. For security reasons, you must pre-register at least one day before the meeting or you will not be permitted to enter. Registering is easy, please see the following link. For complete directions, and a link to register for the next meeting, please go to: www.stuhenderson.com/TampaRUG1.pdf Please note that from now on, speakers will not be providing printed copies of handouts at the meeting. Instead, the handouts will be placed in pdf format on the web. You are invited to print copies for yourself and your friends before the meeting. Links to handouts for upcoming meetings will be placed RIGHT HERE (RACF User Group Handouts) www.stuhenderson.com/XMAINTXT.HTM#handouts when they are ready. Thanks to DTCC Inc. for hosting both the NYRUG and Tampa RUG meetings. For the agenda, please see the latest version at NYRUG next meeting Useful information about RACF and RUG meetings is available in the current and past issues of the RACF USER NEWS . Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Southern California RACF Users Group Call Mark Hahn (714) 209-6368 for information on the Southern California RACF Users Group. Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page JAXRUG (Jacksonville RACF Users Group) Call Tommy Shelton of Barnett Banks at (904) 987-7635 for information on the Jacksonville RACF Users Group Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page Texas RACF Users Group Call Robert Roche at (713) 831-2007 for information on the Texas RACF Users Group Return to Top of Page Return to Home Page			"The best class of any kind that I have ever taken." --- Janet Hutcheson, Sara Lee "Excellent seminar. It doesn't just send you out into the world with a lot of theory. Stu provides real-life, hands-on experience working with the operating systems, and he prepares you to go back and apply your learning." --- Mary Jane Gommel, First Union