We performed a comparison between ACF2 and Top Secret based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Broadcom, Precisely and others in Mainframe Security."I love their support. The support is great. They are number one."
"Excellent real-time reporting that saves time and resources."
"Logging and monitoring are most valuable. It is for the mainframe environment, and it is at the forefront for security and resilience."
"We use this tool to quickly assign privileges to different users as soon as they come in."
"The NOACCESS by default is another very good feature. Also, access rules are straightforward, and easy to understand."
"We have implemented two-factor authentication, which is a new piece of CA Top Secret."
"Reporting can sometimes include false positives."
"It needs longer rules. The max rule is 32K."
"I would like my team and me to be able to use simple browsers, like Chrome, to be able to access mainframe data and provision users using the browser."
"They can work on its ability to work in a distributed environment. It's a mainframe product. As many companies move to the cloud, depending on what cloud models they choose, such as a public, hybrid, or private cloud, it should be deployable. I am not sure if it can be deployed on those platforms. It has been there since the '50s or '60s, and it's still scalable. It has survived all these years, and it's scalable to many platforms, but I don't know about the cloud."
"It would be helpful if they removed limitations on user record sizes."
"Make sure that there is a post-sale department in your country. We have experienced some post-sale problems to do with integration of CA products into our systems."
"The user interface could be improved. Sometimes, it is not simple to understand where a certain definition should be defined, and I go through a number of screens until I find where to do some of them."
ACF2 is ranked 4th in Mainframe Security while Top Secret is ranked 3rd in Mainframe Security. ACF2 is rated 9.0, while Top Secret is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ACF2 writes "A reliable, scalable product for security and auditing of our mainframe environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Top Secret writes "In terms of authorization, it controls what access accounts have with the two resources on the mainframe". ACF2 is most compared with IBM Resource Access Control Facility and IBM Security zSecure, whereas Top Secret is most compared with IBM Resource Access Control Facility, IBM Security zSecure and CA TPX Session Manager.
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