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Leverage Your Security Expertise in IBM® System z™ 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
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- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: IBM Press; 1 edition (January 7, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0131738569
- ISBN-13: 978-0131738560
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 6.9 x 9.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Free Mainframe Basics for Security Professionals: Getting Started with RACF
For those familiar with the "Hello World" exercises for learning new computer environments, this book provides a very similar basic introduction to TSO for mainframe newbies. All of Chapter 1 is devoted to helping novices begin to make sense of the mainframe operating system interfaces (ISPF, TSO, JCL, etc).
Chapter 2 jumps right into RACF administration. Using the basic RACF panels to create RACF users and groups and even setting up their zOS UNIX (OMVS, or UNIX System Services, USS) environment, this book wastes no time in delivering what the title promises. Additionally, sprinkled throughout the wealth of screen shots are nuggets of very important design philosophy for RACF administration (for example: Least Privilege, Separation of Duties, and much more).
Chapter 3 continues with Dataset and General Resource protections. One advantage to having this team of long time z/OS professionals authoring the book is their sprinkling of anecdotal background materials. These anecdotes explain some of the "why do they..." questions that "old timers" take for granted and newbies would have no way of knowing. Such as - "Why do we have to scroll right to see all of the log message text on our terminal screen when we are looking at SYSLOG?"
Another factor in the value of this book is the timeliness of its information. It discusses the UNIXPRIV class and its value in the zOS UNIX environment. Even Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) and zOS UNIX Access Control Lists (ACLs) are packed into this book's 160 pages.
The depth of coverage in Chapter 4 on Logging is impressive. This is a subject near and dear to anyone in security or audit, and it is well covered.