Security On The Ibm Mainframe

Author : Axel Buecker,Marcela Kanke,Mohit Mohanan,Vinicius Oliveira,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,David Rowley,Botrous Thalouth,Jan Thielmann,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738441023

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Reduce Risk and Improve Security on IBM Mainframes: Volume 3 Mainframe Subsystem and Application Security by Axel Buecker,Marcela Kanke,Mohit Mohanan,Vinicius Oliveira,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,David Rowley,Botrous Thalouth,Jan Thielmann,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication documents the strength and value of the IBM security strategy with IBM zTM Systems hardware and software. In an age of increasing security consciousness and more and more dangerous advanced persistent threats, IBM z SystemsTM provides the capabilities to address the needs of today's business security challenges. This publication explores how z Systems hardware is designed to provide integrity, process isolation, and cryptographic capability to help address security requirements. We highlight the features of IBM z/OS® and other operating systems, which offer a variety of customizable security elements. We discuss z/OS and other operating systems and additional software that use the building blocks of z Systems hardware to provide solutions to business security needs. We also explore the perspective from the view of an enterprise security architect and how a modern mainframe has to fit into an overarching enterprise security architecture. This book is part of a three-volume series that focuses on guiding principles for optimized mainframe security configuration within a holistic enterprise security architecture. The series' intended audience includes enterprise security architects, planners, and managers who are interested in exploring how the security design and features of z Systems, the z/OS operating system, and associated software address current issues such as data encryption, authentication, authorization, network security, auditing, ease of security administration, and monitoring.

Author : Axel Buecker,Michael Cairns,Monique Conway,Mark S. Hahn,Deborah McLemore,Jamie Pease,Lili Xie,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738435886

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IBM z/OS Mainframe Security and Audit Management Using the IBM Security zSecure Suite by Axel Buecker,Michael Cairns,Monique Conway,Mark S. Hahn,Deborah McLemore,Jamie Pease,Lili Xie,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Every organization has a core set of mission-critical data that must be protected. Security lapses and failures are not simply disruptions—they can be catastrophic events, and the consequences can be felt across the entire organization. As a result, security administrators face serious challenges in protecting the company's sensitive data. IT staff are challenged to provide detailed audit and controls documentation at a time when they are already facing increasing demands on their time, due to events such as mergers, reorganizations, and other changes. Many organizations do not have enough experienced mainframe security administrators to meet these objectives, and expanding employee skillsets with low-level mainframe security technologies can be time-consuming. The IBM® Security zSecure suite consists of multiple components designed to help you administer your mainframe security server, monitor for threats, audit usage and configurations, and enforce policy compliance. Administration, provisioning, and management components can significantly reduce administration, contributing to improved productivity, faster response time, and reduced training time needed for new administrators. This IBM Redbooks® publication is a valuable resource for security officers, administrators, and architects who wish to better understand their mainframe security solutions.

Author : Karan Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computer security
ISBN : 0738434272

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Security on the IBM Mainframe by Karan Singh Pdf

Author : Axel Buecker,Thomas Cosenza,Uma Kumaraguru,Christopher Meyer,Vinicius Oliveira,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,Jan Thielmann,Joe Welsh,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440941

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Reduce Risk and Improve Security on IBM Mainframes: Volume 2 Mainframe Communication and Networking Security by Axel Buecker,Thomas Cosenza,Uma Kumaraguru,Christopher Meyer,Vinicius Oliveira,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,Jan Thielmann,Joe Welsh,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication documents the strength and value of the IBM security strategy with IBM z Systems hardware and software (referred to in this book by the previous product name, IBM System z®). In an age of increasing security consciousness and more dangerous and advanced persistent threats, System z provides the capabilities to address today's business security challenges. This book explores how System z hardware is designed to provide integrity, process isolation, and cryptographic capability to help address security requirements. We highlight the features of IBM z/OS® and other operating systems that offer a variety of customizable security elements. We also describe z/OS and other operating systems and additional software that use the building blocks of System z hardware to meet business security needs. We explore these from the perspective of an enterprise security architect and how a modern mainframe must fit into an enterprise security architecture. This book is part of a three-volume series that focuses on guiding principles for optimized mainframe security configuration within a holistic enterprise security architecture. The intended audience includes enterprise security architects, planners, and managers who are interested in exploring how the security design and features of the System z platform, the z/OS operating system, and associated software address current issues, such as data encryption, authentication, authorization, network security, auditing, ease of security administration, and monitoring.

Author : Ori Pomerantz,Barbara Vander Weele,Mark Nelson,Tim Hahn
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780132704342

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Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals by Ori Pomerantz,Barbara Vander Weele,Mark Nelson,Tim Hahn Pdf

Leverage Your Security Expertise in IBM® System zTM Mainframe Environments For over 40 years, the IBM mainframe has been the backbone of the world’s largest enterprises. If you’re coming to the IBM System z mainframe platform from UNIX®, Linux®, or Windows®, you need practical guidance on leveraging its unique security capabilities. Now, IBM experts have written the first authoritative book on mainframe security specifically designed to build on your experience in other environments. Even if you’ve never logged onto a mainframe before, this book will teach you how to run today’s z/OS® operating system command line and ISPF toolset and use them to efficiently perform every significant security administration task. Don’t have a mainframe available for practice? The book contains step-by-step videos walking you through dozens of key techniques. Simply log in and register your book at www.ibmpressbooks.com/register to gain access to these videos. The authors illuminate the mainframe’s security model and call special attention to z/OS security techniques that differ from UNIX, Linux, and Windows. They thoroughly introduce IBM’s powerful Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) security subsystem and demonstrate how mainframe security integrates into your enterprise-wide IT security infrastructure. If you’re an experienced system administrator or security professional, there’s no faster way to extend your expertise into “big iron” environments. Coverage includes Mainframe basics: logging on, allocating and editing data sets, running JCL jobs, using UNIX System Services, and accessing documentation Creating, modifying, and deleting users and groups Protecting data sets, UNIX file system files, databases, transactions, and other resources Manipulating profiles and managing permissions Configuring the mainframe to log security events, filter them appropriately, and create usable reports Using auditing tools to capture static configuration data and dynamic events, identify weaknesses, and remedy them Creating limited-authority administrators: how, when, and why

Author : Warren Grunbok,Marie Cole,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738457178

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Security in Development: The IBM Secure Engineering Framework by Warren Grunbok,Marie Cole,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® has long been recognized as a leading provider of hardware, software, and services that are of the highest quality, reliability, function, and integrity. IBM products and services are used around the world by people and organizations with mission-critical demands for high performance, high stress tolerance, high availability, and high security. As a testament to this long-standing attention at IBM, demonstration of this attention to security can be traced back to the Integrity Statement for IBM mainframe software, which was originally published in 1973: IBM's long-term commitment to System Integrity is unique in the industry, and forms the basis of MVS (now IBM z/OS) industry leadership in system security. IBM MVS (now IBM z/OS) is designed to help you protect your system, data, transactions, and applications from accidental or malicious modification. This is one of the many reasons IBM 360 (now IBM Z) remains the industry's premier data server for mission-critical workloads. This commitment continues to apply to IBM's mainframe systems and is reiterated at the Server RACF General User's Guide web page. The IT market transformed in 40-plus years, and so have product development and information security practices. The IBM commitment to continuously improving product security remains a constant differentiator for the company. In this IBM RedguideTM publication, we describe secure engineering practices for software products. We offer a description of an end-to-end approach to product development and delivery, with security considered. IBM is producing this IBM Redguide publication in the hope that interested parties (clients, other IT companies, academics, and others) can find these practices to be a useful example of the type of security practices that are increasingly a must-have for developing products and applications that run in the world's digital infrastructure. We also hope this publication can enrich our continued collaboration with others in the industry, standards bodies, government, and elsewhere, as we seek to learn and continuously refine our approach.

Author : Rica Weller,Ross Clements,Ken Dugdale,Per Fremstad,Olegario Hernandez,William C. Johnston,Patrick Kappeler,Linda Kochersberger,Abey Tedla,Jeff Thompson,Ashwin Venkatraman,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738489643

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Introduction to the New Mainframe: Security by Rica Weller,Ross Clements,Ken Dugdale,Per Fremstad,Olegario Hernandez,William C. Johnston,Patrick Kappeler,Linda Kochersberger,Abey Tedla,Jeff Thompson,Ashwin Venkatraman,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This book provides students of information systems with the background knowledge and skills necessary to begin using the basic security facilities of IBM System z. It enables a broad understanding of both the security principles and the hardware and software components needed to insure that the mainframe resources and environment are secure. It also explains how System z components interface with some non-System z components. A multi-user, multi-application, multi-task environment such as System z requires a different level of security than that typically encountered on a single-user platform. In addition, when a mainframe is connected in a network to other processors, a multi-layered approach to security is recommended. Students are assumed to have successfully completed introductory courses in computer system concepts. Although this course looks into all the operating systems on System z, the main focus is on IBM z/OS. Thus, it is strongly recommended that students have also completed an introductory course on z/OS. Others who will benefit from this course include experienced data processing professionals who have worked with non-mainframe-based platforms, as well as those who are familiar with some aspects of the mainframe environment or applications but want to learn more about the security and integrity facilities and advantages offered by the mainframe environment.

Author : Dinesh D. Dattani
Publisher : Mc PressLlc
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1583478280

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IBM Mainframe Security by Dinesh D. Dattani Pdf

Rather than rehashing basic information—such as command syntax—already available in other publications, this book focuses on important security and audit issues, business best practices, and compliance, discussing the important issues in IBM mainframe security. Mainframes are the backbone of most large IT organizations; security cannot be left to chance. With very little training available to the younger crowd, and older, more experienced personnel retiring or close to retiring, there is a need in mainframe security skills at the senior level. Based on real-life experiences, issues, and solutions to mainframe security from the author’s three decades of practical experience as a mainframe security practitioner, this book fulfills that need.

Author : Axel Buecker,Boudhayan Chakrabarty,Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw,Cesar Goldkorn,Brian Hugenbruch,Madhukar Reddy Nali,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,Botrous Thalouth,Jan Thielmann,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440101

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Reduce Risk and Improve Security on IBM Mainframes: Volume 1 Architecture and Platform Security by Axel Buecker,Boudhayan Chakrabarty,Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw,Cesar Goldkorn,Brian Hugenbruch,Madhukar Reddy Nali,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,Botrous Thalouth,Jan Thielmann,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication documents the strength and value of the IBM security strategy with IBM System z® hardware and software. In an age of increasing security consciousness, IBM System z provides the capabilities to address the needs of today's business security challenges. This publication explores how System z hardware is designed to provide integrity, process isolation, and cryptographic capability to help address security requirements. This book highlights the features of IBM z/OS® and other operating systems, which offer various customizable security elements under the Security Server and Communication Server components. This book describes z/OS and other operating systems and additional software that leverage the building blocks of System z hardware to provide solutions to business security needs. This publication's intended audience is technical architects, planners, and managers who are interested in exploring how the security design and features of System z, the z/OS operating system, and associated software address current issues, such as data encryption, authentication, authorization, network security, auditing, ease of security administration, and monitoring.

Author : Paolo Bruni,Marcelo Antonelli,Hyun Baek,Rick Butler,Ernie Mancill,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738436036

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Security Functions of IBM DB2 10 for z/OS by Paolo Bruni,Marcelo Antonelli,Hyun Baek,Rick Butler,Ernie Mancill,IBM Redbooks Pdf

IBM® DB2® 9 and 10 for z/OS® have added functions in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and audit capability that provide solutions for the most compelling requirements. DB2 10 enhances the DB2 9 role-based security with additional administrative and other finer-grained authorities and privileges. This authority granularity helps separate administration and data access that provide only the minimum appropriate authority. The authority profiles provide better separation of duties while limiting or eliminating blanket authority over all aspects of a table and its data. In addition, DB2 10 provides a set of criteria for auditing for the possible abuse and overlapping of authorities within a system. In DB2 10, improvements to security and regulatory compliance focus on data retention and protecting sensitive data from privileged users and administrators. Improvements also help to separate security administration from database administration. DB2 10 also lets administrators enable security on a particular column or particular row in the database complementing the privilege model. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a detailed description of DB2 10 security functions from the implementation and usage point of view. It is intended to be used by database, audit, and security administrators.

Author : Axel Bücker,Marcela Kanke,Mohit Mohanan,Vinicius Oliveira,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,David Rowley,Botrous Thalouth,Jan Thielmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Computer networks
ISBN : OCLC:1112542565

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Reduce Risk and Improve Security on IBM Mainframes by Axel Bücker,Marcela Kanke,Mohit Mohanan,Vinicius Oliveira,Vinodkumar Ramalingam,David Rowley,Botrous Thalouth,Jan Thielmann Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication documents the strength and value of the IBM security strategy with IBM zTM Systems hardware and software. In an age of increasing security consciousness and more and more dangerous advanced persistent threats, IBM z SystemsTM provides the capabilities to address the needs of today's business security challenges. This publication explores how z Systems hardware is designed to provide integrity, process isolation, and cryptographic capability to help address security requirements. We highlight the features of IBM z/OS® and other operating systems, which offer a variety of customizable security elements. We discuss z/OS and other operating systems and additional software that use the building blocks of z Systems hardware to provide solutions to business security needs. We also explore the perspective from the view of an enterprise security architect and how a modern mainframe has to fit into an overarching enterprise security architecture. This book is part of a three-volume series that focuses on guiding principles for optimized mainframe security configuration within a holistic enterprise security architecture. The series' intended audience includes enterprise security architects, planners, and managers who are interested in exploring how the security design and features of z Systems, the z/OS operating system, and associated software address current issues such as data encryption, authentication, authorization, network security, auditing, ease of security administration, and monitoring.

Author : Guillaume Arnould,Guillaume Hoareau,Herve Sabrie,Sebastien Llaurency,Yann Kindelberger,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738459769

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Four Ways to Transform Your Mainframe for a Hybrid Cloud World by Guillaume Arnould,Guillaume Hoareau,Herve Sabrie,Sebastien Llaurency,Yann Kindelberger,IBM Redbooks Pdf

The IBM® mainframe remains a widely used enterprise computing workhorse, hosting essential IT for the majority of the world's top banks, airlines, insurers and more. As the mainframe continues to evolve, the newest IBM Z® servers offer solutions for AI and analytics, blockchain, cloud, DevOps, security and resiliency, with the aim of making the client experience similar to that of using cloud services. Many organizations today face challenges with their core IT infrastructure: Complexity and stability An environment might have years of history and be seen as too complex to maintain or update. Problems with system stability can impact operations and be considered a high risk for the business. Workforce challenges Many data center teams are anticipating a skills shortage within the next 5 years due to a retiring and declining workforce specialized in the mainframe, not to mention the difficulty of attracting new talent. Total cost of ownership Some infrastructure solutions are seen as too expensive, and it's not always easy to balance up-front costs with the life expectancy and benefits of a given platform. Lack of speed and agility Older applications can be seen as too slow and monolithic as organizations face an increasing need for faster turnaround and release cycles. Some software vendors suggest addressing these challenges with the "big bang" approach of moving your entire environment to a public cloud. But public cloud isn't the best option for every workload, and a hybrid multicloud approach can offer the best of both worlds. IBM Z is constantly being developed to address the real challenges businesses face today, and every day we're helping clients modernize their IT environments. There are 4 strategic elements to consider when modernizing your mainframe environment: Infrastructure Applications Data access DevOps chain This paper focuses on these four modernization dimensions.

Author : Axel Buecker,Saritha Arunkumar,Brian Blackshaw,Martin Borrett,Peter Brittenham,Jan Flegr,Jaco Jacobs,Vladimir Jeremic,Mark Johnston,Christian Mark,Gretchen Marx,Stefaan Van Daele,Serge Vereecke,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738437897

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Using the IBM Security Framework and IBM Security Blueprint to Realize Business-Driven Security by Axel Buecker,Saritha Arunkumar,Brian Blackshaw,Martin Borrett,Peter Brittenham,Jan Flegr,Jaco Jacobs,Vladimir Jeremic,Mark Johnston,Christian Mark,Gretchen Marx,Stefaan Van Daele,Serge Vereecke,IBM Redbooks Pdf

Security is a major consideration in the way that business and information technology systems are designed, built, operated, and managed. The need to be able to integrate security into those systems and the discussions with business functions and operations exists more than ever. This IBM® Redbooks® publication explores concerns that characterize security requirements of, and threats to, business and information technology (IT) systems. This book identifies many business drivers that illustrate these concerns, including managing risk and cost, and compliance to business policies and external regulations. This book shows how these drivers can be translated into capabilities and security needs that can be represented in frameworks, such as the IBM Security Blueprint, to better enable enterprise security. To help organizations with their security challenges, IBM created a bridge to address the communication gap between the business and technical perspectives of security to enable simplification of thought and process. The IBM Security Framework can help you translate the business view, and the IBM Security Blueprint describes the technology landscape view. Together, they can help bring together the experiences that we gained from working with many clients to build a comprehensive view of security capabilities and needs. This book is intended to be a valuable resource for business leaders, security officers, and consultants who want to understand and implement enterprise security by considering a set of core security capabilities and services.

Author : Helmut Hellner,Ingo Franzki,Antoinette Kaschner,Joerg Schmidbauer,Heiko Schnell,Klaus-Dieter Wacker,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738456911

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Security on IBM z/VSE by Helmut Hellner,Ingo Franzki,Antoinette Kaschner,Joerg Schmidbauer,Heiko Schnell,Klaus-Dieter Wacker,IBM Redbooks Pdf

One of a firm's most valuable resources is its data: client lists, accounting data, employee information, and so on. This critical data must be securely managed and controlled, and simultaneously made available to those users authorized to see it. The IBM® z/VSE® system features extensive capabilities to simultaneously share the firm's data among multiple users and protect them. Threats to this data come from various sources. Insider threats and malicious hackers are not only difficult to detect and prevent, they might be using resources with the business being unaware. This IBM Redbooks® publication was written to assist z/VSE support and security personnel in providing the enterprise with a safe, secure and manageable environment. This book provides an overview of the security that is provided by z/VSE and the processes for the implementation and configuration of z/VSE security components, Basic Security Manager (BSM), IBM CICS® security, TCP/IP security, single sign-on using LDAP, and connector security.

Author : Bill White,Cecilia Carranza Lewis,Eysha Shirrine Powers,David Rossi,Eric Rossman,Andy Coulsonr,Jacky Doll,Brad Habbershow,Thomas Liu,Ryan McCarry,Philippe Richard,Romoaldo Santos,Isabel Arnold,Kasper Lindberg,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738460222

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Getting Started with z/OS Data Set Encryption by Bill White,Cecilia Carranza Lewis,Eysha Shirrine Powers,David Rossi,Eric Rossman,Andy Coulsonr,Jacky Doll,Brad Habbershow,Thomas Liu,Ryan McCarry,Philippe Richard,Romoaldo Santos,Isabel Arnold,Kasper Lindberg,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks® publication provides a broad explanation of data protection through encryption and IBM Z® pervasive encryption with a focus on IBM z/OS® data set encryption. It describes how the various hardware and software components interact in a z/OS data set encryption environment. In addition, this book concentrates on the planning and preparing of the environment and offers implementation, configuration, and operational examples that can be used in z/OS data set encryption environments. This publication is intended for IT architects, system programmer, and security administrators who plan for, deploy, and manage security on the Z platform. The reader is expected to have a basic understanding of IBM Z security concepts.