1. Security:
What does it mean to your
business?
presented bypresented by
Chaim Yudkowsky, CPAChaim Yudkowsky, CPA
Grabush, Newman & Co., P.A.Grabush, Newman & Co., P.A.
410-296-6300 www.gnco.com www.byteofadvice.com

2. Questionnaire
• How many have car alarms?
• How many have business alarms?
• How many have human security?
• How many have ID badges and the like?
• How many have other?
• Do you leave your house door unlocked at
night?

3. Surveys
• 64% of responding companies experienced
breach
• 79% of execs security is number one
business challenge in the next century
• 60-80% of risk comes from your own
people

4. The risks to your business data
• physical access
• electronic / virtual access
– intentional
– unintentional
• misappropriated access
– hacking
– no policies
– employee sensitivity (This is Serious!)

5. Virtual access
• network security
– local
– wide
– Internet
– extranet specific
• application security
• policies

6. Policies
• passwords
• security and policy administration
• testing

7. MAS90 and Security
• Overall
• Specific modules
• Third-party enhancements
• Remote Access

8. Overall
• users
• groups
• supervisor rights in a user
• ODBC access and 3.3
• cascading rights (starting at about 3.1)

9. Module security - Part 1
• Payroll
– department users
• Sales Order
– Override price
– Profit margin %
• Purchase Order
– Cost increase
– To allow over receive / invoice qty on order

10. Module security - Part 1
• Payroll
– department users
• Sales Order
– Override price
– Profit margin %
• Purchase Order
– Cost increase
– To allow over receive / invoice qty on order

11. Module security - Part 2
• Accounts Receivable
– Commission / credit line override
– Batch entry override
• Accounts Payable
– Batch entry override

12. Third-party enhancements
• Macabe Divisional enhancement
– General Ledger
– SO / AR
– PO / AP
– Inventory Management
• security for inventory inquiry
• security for warehouse

13. Remote Access
• PcAnywhere nightmare
• Citrix - only cs
• RAS - only cs
• other
• firewall considerations

14. In closing . . .
“The biggest mistake people make is that they
underestimate the risk.”
Jeff Moss
Founder of Def Con