Vanguard Security 2010 Track Information
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Vanguard Tools and Techniques
Increase the effectiveness of using Vanguard software products. This educational track will significantly increase utilization and demonstrate the unknown powers of each of the products. Vanguard’s professional instructors will reinforce the concepts presented in the breakout sessions. If you use any Vanguard product, you will find sessions of interest to you in this track.
Administrator™ Power User’s Techniques, Part 1 and 2
Doug Behrends, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
How to perform complex RACF® Database profile manipulations in a more timely manner. Vanguard Administrator’s reporting capabilities have been expanded to provide more flexible reporting criteria and formatting through Enhanced Masking and the QuickGen™ Tag Language.
Assessing Your z/OS® and RACF Implementation with Vanguard Analyzer™
Phil Emrich, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Use Vanguard Analyzer on an on-going basis to take a detailed look at key z/OS and RACF information. Learn to review Program Properties Table entries; research sensitive and critical datasets; document and analyze the SMF environment; identify any z/OS exits that are active; verify PARMLIBs; list the RACF Exits; analyze the RACF Data Base; and much more.
GUI Administration for RACF - Vanguard SecurityCenter™
John Hilman, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Administer both RACF and DB2® security with one easy to use interface. Includes understanding your tree structure when you explore your RACF groups, drag-and-drop administration, and resetting a password with a few clicks of your mouse.
It’s Like a Tricorder for Enterprise Compliance!
Pierre Olivier, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
An easy-to-use Web-based system that quickly scans your z/OS and RACF environment with hundreds of compliance-specific checks, giving you a clear picture of issues and potential audit findings.
Finding the Nuggets of Gold by Data Mining
Doug Behrends, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Use Vanguard Administrator to facilitate easy access to valuable information in user-friendly report formats, such as users with the SPECIAL, AUDITOR, and/or OPERATIONS attributes; non-protecting Dataset profiles; and much more.
Solving Business Problems with Vanguard Policy Manager™
Bob Ubert, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Vanguard Policy Manager is designed to ensure that supported z/OS® Security Server (RACF) commands are compliant with policy. Overview of product compliance and logging features, Best Practice policies and more.
Maximizing Your Use of Vanguard Administrator
Doug Behrends, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Cloning and renaming groups, ownership, connections and access list entries; transfer users; define and delete Catalog Aliases; automatic removal of a user from a group; identify datasets not protected by RACF; eliminate access redundancies; and more.
Auditing RACF Using Vanguard Advisor™
Jim McNeill, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Masking; use exception criteria; extract filtering to omit SMF records; switching between the extract file and live SMF data; tailored report format; use of SmartLink to jump to the Administrator to modify RACF profiles; and more.
Implementing Vanguard Advisor Alerts
Jim McNeill, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Using Vanguard Advisor to send instant E-mail notifications to security staff or management when specific, security-related events occur. Available alerts; how to indicate the recipient of the alert; how to specify which events you want alerts issued; masking, and more.
Using Vanguard Enforcer™ to Preserve Security Policies
Jim McNeill, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
How to install, customize and use Vanguard Enforcer to ensure the standards, policies, rules, and operating system settings are in force and will stay in force.
Using QuickGen to Format Reports
Doug Behrends - Vanguard Integrity Professionals Inc.
QuickGen was enhanced in Vanguard Security Suite 5.3 to provide the ability to format reports in Administrator and Advisor. This is done with the introduction of the QuickGen Tag Language. The purpose of the class is to teach you how to leverage this QuickGen feature. In this session, you will learn how to customize reports that have your own headers and footers that display only the fields you want to see, and that have page breaks when a field changes value. You can also save templates of your customized report formats by name for future use. Be sure to attend this session if you want to add some pizzazz to your Administrator and Advisor reports.
Automate Your Security Readiness Review with Vanguard Configuration Manager™
John Connors, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Abstract Pending.
Using Vanguard Administrator to Administer Digital Certificates
Art Hatfield-Mihelic, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Use Vanguard Administrator to simplify the use and understanding of digital certificates in the z/OS RACF environment with Vanguard Administrator’s “Main Menu Option 18 Digital Certificates”.
