Vanguard Security 2010 Track Information
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Educational sessions are being confirmed and will be available for selection soon. In the meantime, here is a listing of topics to consider:
Audit, Compliance and Regulations (ACR) -
Information security professionals face numerous and diverse challenges. The Audit, Compliance and Regulations track, will focus on education to assist in evaluating and adjusting your information security management system (ISMS) to respond to the current business, customer, technology, legal, and regulatory challenges.
- Auditing and Controlling z/OS UNIX® System Services (USS)
- Auditing RACF® and CICS®
- Compliance and Risk Management in Cloud Computing-Stormy Weather Ahead?
- Cryptography
- Getting in Front of an Audit
- How to Secure Mainframe FTP
- IT Governance: The Impact of Information Security and Breach Notice Laws and Lawsuits
- New Potholes on the Road of Mainframe Security
- PCI Compliance-Privacy Protection and the Minimum Standards of Due Care
- Securing Information Through Encryption with MVS and RACF
- SMF-An Overview
- URSA: An Application for User Security Management
RACF® Basic Administration (RBA) -
This track is designed to provide a full week of RACF training for Security Administrators, Auditors and Systems Programmers new to RACF. Vanguard’s professional instructors present the entire track that starts with a RACF overview and goes through Group, User, Dataset, and General Resource profile administration. Also covered are the RACF System-wide Options and a topic on RACF Logging and Reporting. Perhaps the most powerful aspect of the track is the hands-on lab that is available to all attendees to reinforce the concepts presented during the breakout sessions. The lab environment allows the attendee to choose to complete the assignment using either RACF commands or Vanguard Administrator™. This is a unique feature not found in any conference setting. The track is literally a basic RACF course presented Tuesday morning through Thursday afternoon.
- RACF Overview
- RACF Groups (followed by Hands-on Lab Workshop)
- RACF Users (followed by Hands-on Lab Workshop)
- RACF and Dataset Protection (followed by Hands-on Lab Workshop)
- RACF General Resource Protection (followed by Hands-on Lab Workshop)
- RACF SETROPTS
- RACF Surveillance
- RACF Hands-on Lab Workshop-Summary
RACF Advanced Administration (RAA) -
This track provides training for Security Administrators with a working knowledge of RACF. Topics are presented on critical z/OS® functions and interfaces with components such as CICS®, DB2®, RRSF, and MQ Series. Other sessions enable Security Administrators to understand digital certificates, utilize the z/OS cryptographic facilities, and make the best use of RACF.
- Breaking into zOS via USS, TCP/IP & Internet
- CICS Security: RACF Authorization for CICS Resources
- CICS Security: RACF Transaction Authority
- Introduction to IBM® Health Checker for z/OS
- LDAP
- MQ Series Security
- Protecting JES Resources with RACF
- Protecting SDSF Resources with RACF
- RACF® and z/OS® UNIX
- Using RACF DSMON Workshop
- As Cool as ICE!
- Understanding the Differences - RACF, ACF2 and TSS
RACF Technical (RTT) -
This track focuses on the hottest topics necessary for z/OS “techies” to survive in the rapidly changing world of security. With so many emerging technical issues being addressed in organizations today, many new sessions have been added that focus on the latest enhancements to the z/OS Security Server. The people who design and write the code (IBM® developers) will present many of these sessions. If you are a technician, systems programmer, systems analyst or consultant, you won’t want to miss these exciting technical sessions.
- Introduction to System z Security
- APF-An Overview
- Digital Certificates
- FACILITY Class
- Introduction to DB2 Security
- Introduction to z-Cryptography
- RACF and Digital Certificates
- RACF and REXX
- RACF Performance Tuning
- RACF Update
- Using Custom Fields-A Real World Example
- Using RACF for DB2® Security
- WAS (WebSphere®)
Vanguard Tools and Techniques (VTT) -
Increase the effectiveness of the users of Vanguard software products. It is a proven fact that 80% of the Vanguard product users use only about 20% of the capability of the products they possess. This track will significantly increase that utilization percentage and demonstrate the unknown powers of each of the products. Online access to the products by Vanguard’s professional instructors will reinforce the concepts presented in the breakout sessions. If you use any of the Vanguard products, you will find sessions of interest to you in this track.
- Administrator™ Power User's Techniques
- Assessing Your z/OS and RACF Implementation with Vanguard Analyzer™
- Auditing RACF Using Vanguard Advisor™
- RACF and SMF Reports Using Vanguard Administrator and Advisor
- Digital Certificates Made Easy with Vanguard Administrator
- Finding the Nuggets of Gold by Data Mining
- GUI Administration for RACF-Vanguard SecurityCenter™
- Implementing Vanguard Advisor Alerts
- It’s Like a Tricorder for Enterprise Compliance!
- Maximizing Your Use of Vanguard Advisor
- Solving Business Problems with Vanguard Policy Manager™
- Using QuickGen™ to Format Reports
- Using Vanguard Enforcer™ to Preserve Security Policies
Enhancing Security Using Federal Standards -
This track offers an in depth education on the security controls standards by NIST and their relevance to mainframe environments, as well as the comprehensive review of the mainframe configuration controls published by the Defense Information Systems Agency. In addition, this track correlates the requirements of FISMA and HIPAA to NIST standards and DISA configuration controls.
- DISA-STIGs: What They Are and Why You Should Care About Them
- Addressing Security Vulnerabilities for ACP
- Addressing Security Vulnerabilities for SDSF
- HIPAA, HITECH and z/OS: Are You Ready?
- FISMA Compliance and z/OS
- NIST (Security Controls) for Federal Information Systems - (800-53)
- Risk and Vulnerability Management (AKA Accreditation & Certification) NIST 800-37 and z/OS
- Using Vanguard Configuration Manager to Pass DISA STIGs Assessments
- Addressing Security Vulnerabilities for a z/OS Operating System
- Addressing Security Vulnerabilities for RACF
- Addressing Security Vulnerabilities for JES2
- Addressing Security Vulnerabilities for ZUSS
- DISA STIG Configuration Controls for Mainframes
