System z Mainframe Environments

, 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.

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

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