CA ACF2™ for z/OS provides innovative, comprehensive security for your business transaction environments—including Linux, UNIX and z/OS on System z—helping you realize the reliability, scalability and cost-effectiveness of the mainframe. CA ACF2 provides an Advanced Authentication Mainframe feature, system entry validation, resource control, auditability, accountability, and administrative control. In conjunction with distributed security solutions from CA Technologies, CA ACF2 provides mobile-to-mainframe enterprise class security and compliance management.
ACF2 offers some of the following features:
Authentication: ACF2 is used for authenticating users and granting them access to profiles and various resources on the mainframe.
Access Control: The solution provides resource control, allowing administrators to control who can access specific mainframe resources.
Logging and Monitoring: Organizations can easily track and monitor activities on the mainframe. This feature enables the creation of audit trails for follow-up and helps with security analysis.
Metrics and Reporting: ACF2 allows the configuration of tools to produce different types of metrics and reports. These can then be used by senior management for making informed security decisions.
Comprehensive Security: The solution provides comprehensive security for mainframe environments, ensuring the protection of valuable data assets. It offers advanced authentication, system entry validation, and administrative control.
Streamlined Administration: It simplifies the administration of mainframe security by providing streamlined management capabilities. ACF2 also enables administrators to monitor and adjust security policies and accommodate various organizational structures.
Scalability: ACF2 offers reliable and scalable security, allowing businesses to expand their mainframe environments while maintaining a high level of protection.
Compliance Management: Organizations can meet compliance requirements by providing auditability, accountability, and comprehensive security controls.
Integration: ACF2 can integrate with distributed security solutions from CA Technologies, providing enterprise-class security and compliance management for mobile-to-mainframe environments.
Flexibility: ACF2 allows flexibility in adapting security policies to accommodate different organizational structures and requirements.
Some of the benefits that ACF2 provides are:
Enhanced security and resilience
Streamlined administration
Reliable and scalable security
Comprehensive audit capabilities
Cost-effectiveness
Integration with other security solutions
Simplified identity and access management
Compliance management
Efficient monitoring and reporting
According to an IT Examiner at a financial services firm with 10,000+ employees, "ACF2 is extremely beneficial for the mainframe environment, and it is at the forefront for security and resilience."
ACF2 was previously known as CA ACF2.
Sky, Rogers Communications
To provide security for the z/OS operating system.
By providing a high level of access control to the z/OS systems, ACF2 allows us to maintain tight controls on dataset and system access. It also helps us keep unauthorized users from accessing PHI or PII data.
It needs longer rules. The max rule is 32K. It would be nice if the rules could be moved above the bar, which would allow for longer rules.
No issues, ACF2 is a very stable product.
We have not had any issues with scalability.
On a scale of one to 10, tech support would be an 11. They are knowledgeable about ACF2. They take ownership of the problem and provide the solutions you need.
We purchased a company that was running another security product. We converted that system to ACF2. On our systems, we have always been an ACF2 shop.
Back in the 1980s when all mainframe shops were installing some type of security software, ACF2 was the best choice.
ACF2 was installed here in 1985, probably because MVS security, at that time, was very limited.
