VANGUARD ADMINISTRATOR Bringing together security administration and analysis Your IBM® Security Server database touches every application and user in your environment. If you think you can manage it with a command-line interface, think again. Vanguard Administrator™ is an advanced security management solution for z/OS® and RACF®. Administrator’s automation and power utilities reduce the time and investment required for RACF administration and analysis, and improve the quality of performing security functions. Administrator provides access to Vanguard’s built-in knowledge base to help you enforce best practices.
Improve efficiency and quality Save time and money Easily maintain, oversee and control security implementation with Administrator’s RACF database analysis, data mining, and reporting tools. Correct profile ownership definitions. Remove obsolete user and group references, and redundant access definitions. Identify unprotected datasets. Conduct scope of authority analysis. Easily manage digital certificates. Administer linked RACF. Administrator’s powerful task-oriented automation features dramatically reduce administration time and costs, allowing the security professional to handle greater workloads and tackle more complex issues. Administrator enables companies to simply and quickly manage routine tasks such as adding new users, moving users across departments, or finding and disabling all access for a specific user.
Decentralized environments Security automation features provide easy-to-use password administration, decentralized administration support, task-oriented, context-sensitive administration, authority analysis, continuous security monitoring, and DB2® authority reporting and data services. Produce complex reports for use in maintaining a more accurate RACF security database. Simplify the administration of access controls for Unix System Services directories and files. Protect LDAP user configurations. Strengthen user authentication by requiring RACF’s new “password phrase” for z/OS® users. Administrator utilizes Vanguard patented technology to decentralize portions of the security administration and reporting workload. This sophisticated technology limits user control and data displays based on the decentralized administrator’s scope of authority.