RE:

["Ketzes, Larry" <Larry.Ketzes@xxxxxxx>]

I'm not too happy to hear that.  Has anyone had a good experience with
Townsend?

Larry Ketzes
Senior Security Project Analyst
American Life Insurance Company

One ALICO Plaza
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Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: 302-594-2146
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Email: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Martinson
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 2:22 PM
To: midrange forum
Subject: RE: 

I agree with Rob that IBM has decent built-in capability with DB2.  It's
just going to take some time by a good programmer to flush it all out,
whereas I'm sure you want something that's quick and easy.
   
  As for Townsend, I recently had a client ping me as to whether NetIQ had
field-level encryption utilities/tools, and I suggested Patrick Townsend &
Associates.  They came back to me with this...  "We tried to use Patrick
Townsend & Associates for our iSeries encryption and to put it nicely are
incredibly unhappy with their product...The problem is/was that it's very
poorly set up.  We've had issue after issue trying to get their stuff to
work.  Then to top it off, we were able to hack it without any tools, just
by looking at it."  He didn't tell me precisely how they were able to hack
it, but he added that PT&A didn't even try to retain them as a customer, as
if they gave up too easily.    
   
  Field level security
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/dbp/rbafolmtfiel
d.htm

Field level encryption
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/db2/rbafzmstscal
e.htm#scaencrypt
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/db2/rbafzmstscal
e.htm#scadecrypt

   


Best regards,

Steven W. Martinson, CISSP, CISM
Consultant - Servique, LLC

Cell 281.546.9836
www.servique.com 
4801 Woodway Drive, Suite 300E
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