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BMC AMI for Security Features
Some of the features that BMC AMI for Security are:
Real-time threat detection: BMC AMI for Security provides continuous monitoring of mainframe systems, allowing users to detect and respond to security threats in real-time.
Advanced analytics for anomaly detection: The solution leverages advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to analyze patterns and identify anomalous behavior, helping users detect potential security breaches.
Access control management for granular permissions: BNC AMI offers robust access control management, allowing users to define and enforce granular permissions to ensure that only authorized individuals have appropriate access to mainframe resources.
Segregation of Duties: BMC AMI for Security enforces segregation of duties, preventing conflicts of interest by ensuring that individuals do not possess conflicting responsibilities that could lead to security risks.
Compliance management and reporting: The solution helps users adhere to industry regulations by providing tools to manage compliance, generate reports, and demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements during audits.
Integration with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): Seamless integration with SIEM platforms consolidates security events and enhances visibility across the entire security landscape.
Auditing trail capabilities for tracking security events: BMC AMI for Security maintains comprehensive audit trails and logs, allowing users to track and analyze security events for forensic purposes, compliance, and proactive threat detection.
Secure configuration management: The solution facilitates secure configuration management, ensuring that mainframe resources are properly configured and reducing the risk of vulnerabilities.
Privileged user management and control: BMC AMI for Security enables effective management and control of privileged user access to critical mainframe resources, mitigating the risk of insider threats.
Automated vulnerability scanning: Users can automate security assessments and vulnerability scans, identifying potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities within their mainframe infrastructure.
Integration with external systems: The solution seamlessly integrates with external systems for authentication and authorization purposes, enhancing the security and manageability of user access.
Role-based access control capabilities: BMC AMI for Security supports role-based access control, enabling users to assign permissions based on predefined roles, simplifying access management and ensuring the least privileged access.
BMC AMI for Security Benefits
BMC AMI for Security offers users the following benefits:
Enhanced mainframe security
Automated security monitoring and analysis
Improved incident management and remediation
Granular access control and segregation of duties (SoD)
Streamlined compliance management and reporting
Simplified administration and management of security policies
Mitigation of insider threats and unauthorized access attempts
IBM Security zSecure V2.1.1 suite consists of multiple individual products designed to help you administer your mainframe security, monitor for threats, enforce policy compliance, audit usage and configurations, and assist in compliance management and audit reporting.
IBM Security zSecure Admin, IBM Security zSecure Visual, and IBM Security zSecure CICS Toolkit together provide administrative, provisioning, and management components that can significantly reduce administration time, effort, and costs, and help improve productivity and response time, as well as help reduce training time for new administrators.
IBM Security zSecure Audit, IBM Security zSecure Alert, and IBM Security zSecure Command Verifier together provide security policy enforcement, audit, monitoring, and compliance management capability. These offerings help ease the burden of compliance audits, help reduce the time and costs of performing compliance and monitoring, can improve security and incident handling, and can increase overall operational effectiveness.
IBM Security zSecure Adapters for QRadar SIEM V2.1.1, new to the suite, collects, formats, and sends enriched mainframe System Management Facility (SMF) audit records to IBM Security QRadar SIEM to be included in the enterprise-wide integrated security information and event management (SIEM), log management, anomaly detection, incident forensics, and configuration and vulnerability management.
IBM Security zSecure Features
IBM Security zSecure offers the following features:
Centralized Security Administration: IBM Security zSecure allows users to centrally manage and administer mainframe security configurations, user accounts, and access controls across multiple systems, simplifying the complex task of security administration and ensuring consistent security policies.
Auditing and Compliance Monitoring: The suite provides comprehensive auditing and compliance monitoring capabilities, capturing and analyzing security events, generating detailed audit trails. It assists organizations in meeting regulatory compliance requirements and internal security policies.
Real-time Monitoring and Alerting: Users can leverage real-time monitoring and alerting features to proactively detect and respond to security incidents or suspicious activities on the mainframe, enabling timely incident response and reducing the impact of potential threats.
Security Event Visualization: With its graphical user interface, IBM Security zSecure offers convenient representations of security events, system settings, and more. The solution provides users with an intuitive and user-friendly interface for easier analysis, reporting, and visualization of security-related information.
Command Verification and Policy Enforcement: IBM Security zSecure's Command Verifier automatically validates and audits system commands issued by privileged users, helping enforce security policies and reducing the risk of accidental or unauthorized changes.
Compliance Reporting: Users can generate detailed compliance reports using IBM Security zSecure to demonstrate adherence to regulatory requirements, industry standards, and internal security policies.
Integration with SIEM Solutions: IBM Security zSecure integrates seamlessly with Security Information and Event Management solutions, allowing for the correlation and analysis of mainframe security events alongside events from other enterprise systems.
User Behavior Analytics: IBM Security zSecure incorporates advanced analytics capabilities to detect anomalies in user behavior, helping identify potential security threats or insider risks through behavior profiling and anomaly detection algorithms.
Secure Configuration Assessment: The solution enables users to assess and validate the security configurations of mainframe systems, ensuring compliance with best practices and industry standards while identifying and addressing potential security weaknesses or vulnerabilities.
Secure File Transfer: IBM Security zSecure facilitates secure file transfers between mainframe systems and external entities, employing encryption and secure protocols to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data during transit.
Mainframe Vulnerability Assessment: Users of the solution can conduct vulnerability assessments of mainframe systems using IBM Security zSecure, identifying and remediating potential security weaknesses and vulnerabilities to maintain a robust security posture.
Mainframe Forensics: IBM Security zSecure provides capabilities for mainframe forensics, enabling detailed analysis and investigation of security incidents and unauthorized activities, aiding in incident response, and supporting post-incident forensic investigations.
IBM Security zSecure Benefits
Users of IBM Security zSecure will experience the following benefits:
Simplified security administration
Improved access control management
Comprehensive auditing and compliance monitoring
Real-time monitoring and alerting
Seamless integration with SIEM solutions
Advanced user behavior analytics
Integration with Identity and Access Management systems
Role-based access control (RBAC)
Mainframe vulnerability assessment
