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 Features
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.
ACF2 Benefits
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
Reviews from Real Users
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."
CA Auditor for z/OS (CA Auditor) is a powerful mainframe tool architected to help you achieve and maintain compliance with the myriad regulatory requirements that govern your business and IT systems. It enables you to perform an automated technical review of the system, hardware and software environment and to identify integrity exposures in z/OS. CA Auditor is designed to help you simplify auditing activities and eliminate manual processes so that users without in-depth experience can perform an extensive operating system review.
Auditor helps organizations ensure the security, integrity, and regulatory compliance of their mainframe environments. It provides comprehensive auditing capabilities that monitor and track user activity, system changes, and data access on the mainframe. By analyzing and reporting on these activities, Auditor helps organizations detect and respond to security threats, identify compliance violations, and investigate potential breaches or unauthorized activities.
Auditor Features
Auditor offers the following features:
Comprehensive Auditing: CA Auditor provides extensive auditing capabilities to monitor and track user activities, system changes, and data access on the mainframe.
Real-time Monitoring and Alerting: It offers real-time monitoring of critical events, allowing users to receive alerts and notifications when specific security incidents or policy violations occur.
Customizable Audit Policies: Users can define and customize audit policies based on their specific security and compliance requirements. This allows them to focus on the areas that are most critical to their organization.
Compliance Reporting: CA Auditor offers a wide range of pre-defined compliance reports that help users demonstrate adherence to regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, and GDPR. Reports can then be customized and scheduled for automatic generation.
Forensic Analysis: The solution includes powerful search and analysis capabilities that enable users to perform detailed forensic investigations. This helps in identifying the root cause of security incidents and understanding the full scope of unauthorized activities.
Audit Trail Archiving and Retention: CA Auditor allows users to archive and retain audit trail data for long-term storage and compliance purposes. This ensures that historical audit information is available for future analysis and audit reviews.
Integration with SIEM Solutions: The solution can integrate with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, allowing users to consolidate and correlate mainframe audit data with data from other IT systems.
Role-Based Access Control: Users can define access controls and assign roles to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to sensitive audit data and system configurations.
Interactive Query Interface: CA Auditor offers an interactive query interface that allows users to perform ad-hoc searches and queries on the audit data, providing flexibility in analyzing specific events or patterns of activity.
Audit Data Visualization: The solution includes visual representation capabilities, such as charts and graphs, to present audit data in a more intuitive and easily understandable format. This helps in identifying trends, anomalies, and patterns quickly.
Support for Mainframe Environment: CA Auditor is specifically designed for IBM's z/OS operating system, ensuring compatibility and optimized performance in mainframe environments.
Auditor Benefits
Some of the benefits that Auditor provides are:
Enhanced security and compliance
Comprehensive monitoring and tracking of user activities
Real-time alerts for security incidents
Customizable audit policies
Pre-defined compliance reporting
Powerful forensic analysis capabilities
Integration with SIEM solutions
Role-based access control
Interactive query interface
Visual representation of audit data
