RACF Administration and Audit

The Challenge
Your organization uses RACF – probably the safest mainframe security software in existence. But it's difficult to handle and it isn't easy to see whether your security policy is really working: RACF command syntax is very complex, and there's no relational database, so object relationships aren't clear. The lack of a suitable user interface doesn't help either. RACF is constantly being improved and updated – but even that adds to the general difficulty of handling it. Nevertheless, in a mainframe environment, RACF is pivotal to data security and integrity, so user-friendly facilities for RACF administration, auditing and monitoring are vital.

Our Solution



The zSecurity Suite is proven technology epitomized in a modular series of products based on the special routines developed by Beta Systems. Thanks to these routines, every change to the RACF database is recognized immediately, so administrators, auditors and helpdesk users always have up-to-date RACF, environment and SMF data at their disposal. In addition, the use of relational databases makes it much easier for them to find and work with the data they need.

That saves time – and money.
Another advantage of the Beta routines is that they allow fully automatic real-time monitoring. Security-relevant events are recognized as soon as they happen and escalated immediately to the person in charge. This means that you have all-round protection all the time.