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.
VANGUARD ADMINISTRATOR Bring together administration, auditing and reporting Full digital certificate management and reporting Vanguard Administrator, Vanguard Analyzer™, and Vanguard Advisor™ each fully meet the needs of the individual security management roles for which they were designed. However, when these three products are used together, they form an integrated security management workbench environment that delivers a whole new level of effectiveness to security practitioners. In this environment, a user looking at an Analyzer audit report, can switch seamlessly to Advisor to check related event activity, then to Administrator to fix a problem found, and finally back to the Analyzer report. Vanguard’s proprietary SmartLink™ technology enables this natural work flow, linking the context from one product to the corresponding context in another.
Administrator easily manages digital certificate information maintained in the RACF database. Users can create new digital certificates, prepare requests for certificates to be signed by certificate authorities, import new signed certificates, renew existing certificates, and manage digital certificate rings. Users can also modify RACF user and General Resource profile data associated with digital certificates. These new functions work with Administrator’s selective digital certificate reporting functions. If the security administrator or manager accidentally deletes authorities or security rules that are not otherwise documented, it becomes impossible to rebuild those rules. Administrator’s powerful REBUILD command quickly recreates the complete command sequence used to reconstruct those deleted segments of the security environment. Just this single function can justify the investment in Vanguard Administrator.
Reduces the complexity of RACFsecurity administrationwith menu-driven interfaces Extends RACFcapabilities with a full suite of power features that automate all common tasks Enforces best practices: provides foundation for repeatable security processes Improves quality and consistency by generating RACF commands automatically Simplifies the administration of access controls for Unix System Services Easily manages digital certificates Developed by security experts in the United States
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