CA Top Secret for z/OS provides innovative, comprehensive security for your business transaction environments— including z/OS, UNIX and Linux on System z—helping you realize the reliability, scalability and cost-effectiveness of the mainframe. CA Top Secret provides an Advanced Authentication Mainframe feature, system entry validation, resource control, auditability, accountability, administrative control, and SAF compatibility. In conjunction with distributed security solutions from CA Technologies, CA Top Secret provides mobile-to-mainframe enterprise class security and compliance management.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Top Secret | 11.7% |
| IBM Security zSecure | 16.3% |
| IBM Resource Access Control Facility | 12.3% |
| Other | 59.7% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 21 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 19 |
| Large Enterprise | 49 |
Top secret provides the following features:
Access Control: Top Secret provides fine-grained control over user access to mainframe resources, allowing administrators to specify precisely which users can access specific datasets, programs, or system functions.
Auditing and Logging: The solution generates comprehensive audit trails, capturing security-related events and activities, enabling organizations to monitor and analyze user actions for compliance purposes and security incident investigations.
Secure Remote Administration: Administrators can also securely manage and administer Top Secret from remote locations, allowing for efficient administration without compromising security.
Encryption: Top Secret supports encryption of sensitive data, ensuring that information stored on the mainframe remains protected from unauthorized access or disclosure.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): By implementing RBAC, Top Secret simplifies access management by assigning privileges and permissions based on predefined roles or job functions, reducing administrative overhead.
Integration with External Authentication Systems: Top Secret integrates with external systems, such as LDAP or Active Directory, enabling centralized user authentication and leveraging existing identity management infrastructure.
Secure Communication Channels: TS ensures secure communication channels between the mainframe and external systems, protecting data transmitted across networks from interception or tampering.
Compliance and Regulatory Support: Organizations can meet regulatory requirements and industry standards by providing security controls, auditing capabilities, and access management features.
Secure Key Management: Top Secret facilitates the secure management of encryption keys and digital signatures, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information.
Resource Protection: Mainframe resources are safeguarded from unauthorized access or modification, providing an additional layer of protection to critical assets and data.
Security Monitoring: The solution provides real-time monitoring of security events and alerts, enabling proactive threat detection and response to potential security incidents.
User Provisioning: Top Secret streamlines user provisioning processes, simplifying the onboarding and offboarding of users and ensuring that access is granted or revoked in a timely manner.
Session Management: The product offers session management capabilities, including session timeouts and session termination, ensuring that user sessions are properly managed and secure.
Some of the benefits that Top Secret offers are:
Robust access control
Strong authentication mechanisms
Comprehensive auditing and logging
Protection of mainframe resources
Compliance with regulatory requirements
Secure remote administration
Encryption of sensitive data
Integration with external authentication systems
Secure communication channels
Support for encryption keys and digital signatures
Top Secret was previously known as CA Top Secret.
First Tennessee Bank
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.5 | Top Secret is our stable, scalable mainframe security core, crucial for compliance. I value its features like 2FA and excellent support, though I wish for removal of user record size limitations. |
| Director with 51-200 employees | 4.5 | I use this valuable solution for asset protection and access control, finding it stable with excellent customer service. My main issues are its user interface, which could be simpler, and the need for better local post-sale support for integration. |
| Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | I find this mainframe security solution easy to use, stable, and scalable enterprise-wide. I recommend it but would like improved audit reporting and better scrubbing of the canned reports. |
| Head of Enterprise Partnerships | Wealth & Investment Management at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.0 | I find this mainframe security product crucial for authentication and authorization, securing our data. While customer support is excellent, I'm concerned about its scalability limits, development pace, and need for better 2FA and CFILE backup. |
| Manager of Operations Security at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees | 5.0 | Having used this product for 27 years, I rate it 9.5/10. Its stability, scalability, ease of installation, and reporting are excellent, and customer service is the best. I only desire more granular password complexity. |
| Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.5 | I find HFS SEC valuable for enterprise protection, noting its excellent stability, scalability, and support. New release setup is lengthy, and I'd like Top Secret integration. Choosing it is a long-term commitment. |
| Sr. Supervisor Auditor at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.0 | I find the system enhances security and adapts well, with great customer support. However, the command-line UI is difficult for auditing, requiring expertise. Integration with other systems, like IBM, could also be smoother for my evolving needs. |
| VP Enterprise Architecture Manager at FirstBank Puerto Rico | 4.5 | We appreciate its mainframe security integration and centralized user security, finding it stable and scalable for 3,000 users. My primary request is for LDAP/Windows AD integration to unify our security. |
