Brian, this has always been a biggest challenge for me to "read" what indeed he/she is up to whenever there's a pitch. The same genius once proposed a product from Sterling Commerce named Secure Proxy, one that you use for breaking communication sessions and perform message authentication in the DMZ. It was offered for free since we use GIS 4.3 & Sterling VAN. With all due respect to this product & service provider, I have to admit it was a complete PITA to configure this thing in our system and it literally complicated the whole communication system. Not to mention the kind of collaboration I had with the genius to build this thing up. All of a sudden Sterling came up as my good fortune stating that the product was free only for 3 mths. This made the management to hiccup & it didn't take more time for them to decide to decommission Secure Proxy. And here in the proposal of encryption & SOX, he was completely true and honest. Regards Praveen
--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Brian Lehrhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Brian Lehrhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Encryption or Clear Text To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 3:43 AM The "Sterling genius" is selling something. Do you need to buy it? Depending on your data content, do you really care who looks at it or what it says? SOX is just another complication of life that most of us really don't need. Praveen Kumar wrote: > Hello, > > I was fed up last week runing into a debate with a Sterling C:D consultant on SOX compliance. We solely use Sterling Commerce VAN for transmitting all EDI messages to our trading partners. Open FTP with no encryption is being used for sending/receiving messages to/from from Sterling VAN. As per the Sterling genius, all messages going out of the organization should be encrypted irrespective of the destination - whether VAN or the partner else I don't comply to SOX guidelines. Counter to this point, I argued that with just one single destination, there is no requirement of having this additional step and its an unnecessary overhead. Any thoughts? > > Regards > Praveen > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > ... > Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> > > Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Brian Lehrhoff, EA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Messaging Consultant 201-913-4506 Upgrade your Quickbooks for 20% off at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com Circular 230 Notice is located at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com/230notice.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
