Identity and Access Management / Vanguard Administrator

Offers the highest levels of security administration to simplify and enhance security management functions on systems running RACF^®. Administrator includes the widest range of administration, data mining and reporting tools available today. The new release adds enhanced digital certificate management, strengthened user authentication, protection of LDAP client configurations, support for PCICC private key, and expanded masking capabilities.

Highlights:

• Reduces the complexity of RACF security administration with menudriven interfaces
• Extends RACF capabilities with afull suite of power features that automate all common tasks
• Enforces best practices; providesfoundation for repeatable security processes
• Improves quality and consistency of security administration by generating RACF commands automatically
• Simplifies the administration ofaccess controls for Unix System Services
• Easily manages digital certificates

Bringing Together Security Administration and Analysis

Easily maintain, oversee and control security implementation with Administrator’s RACF
database analysis and reporting tools.

• Correct profile ownership definitions
• Remove obsolete user and group references, and redundant access definitions
• Identify unprotected datasets
• Conduct scope of authority analysis
• Easily manage digital certificates
• Administer linked RACF databases from a single location

Save Time & Money

Vanguard Administrator's powerful task-oriented automation features dramatically reduce administration time and costs, allowing the security
professional to handle greater workloads and tackle more complex issues. Administrator enables companies to simply and quickly manage routine tasks such as adding new users, moving users across departments, or finding and disabling all access for a specific user.

Improve Efficiency and Quality

Security automation features provide easy-to-use password administration, decentralized administration support, taskoriented, context-sensitive
administration, authority analysis, continuous security monitoring, DB2 authority reporting and data services.
Produce complex reports for use in maintaining a more accurate RACF security database.
Simplify the administration of access controls for Unix System Services directoriesand files. Protect LDAP user configurations. Strengthen user
authentication by requiring RACF’s new “password phrase” for z/OS users.

Bring Together Administration, Audit and Reporting

Vanguard Administrator, Analyzer and Advisor each fully meet the needs of the security management roles for which they were designed.
However, when these three products are used together, they form an integrated security management workbench environment that
delivers a whole new level of effectiveness to security practitioners.
In this environment, a user looking at an Analyzer audit report, can switch seamlessly to Advisor to check related event activity, then to Administrator to fix a problem found, and finally back to the Analyzer report. Vanguard’s proprietary SmartLinkTM technology enables this natural work flow, linking the context from one product to the corresponding context in another.

Full Digital Certificate Management and Reporting

Administrator easily manages digital certificate information maintained in the RACF database. Users can create new digital certificates, prepare
requests for certificates to be signed by certificate authorities, import new signed certificates, renew existing certificates and manage digital
certificate rings. Users can also modify RACF user and general resource profile data associated with digital certificates. These new functions work with Administrator’s selective digital certificate reporting functions.

The Ultimate Security Safety Net

If the security administrator or manager accidentally deletes authorities or security rules that are not otherwise documented, it becomes impossible to rebuild those rules. Administrator's powerful REBUILD command quickly recreates the complete command sequence used to
reconstruct those deleted segments of the security environment. Just this single function can justify the investment in Vanguard Administrator.

Decentralized Environments

Vanguard Administrator utilizes Vanguard patented technology to decentralize portions of the security administration and reporting workload. This sophisticated technology limits user control and data displays based on the decentralized administrator’s scope of authority.