More FREE Information Resources

The following links connect you to more free, practical infromation sources:

Here are other information sources you may find useful. Select by clicking on the selections below:

IT Audit Sites

General Computer Security Sites

IBM Mainframe Sites (not including RACF, which follows)

Interesting Products

Permanently Interesting Products Column (formerly maintained in the RACF User News)

We have not evaluated these, but think every RACF shop should know about them.

NewEra Software’s Image FOCUS is an Image Control Environment (ICE) application that detects, evaluates, documents and reports on changes to z/OS, its subsystems and z/OS External Security Managers. For more info contact Jerry Seefeldt at jms@newera.com or phone (800) 421-5035 or see the website at:
http://www.newera.com.
EKC offers software tools for RACF (and ACF2) administration, Firecall userids, and SOX compliance. For more info contact them at phone (847) 296-8010 or see the website at:
http://www.ekcinc.com.
SEA's RAC/PACK is a family of products designed to help manage RACF more efficiently; thereby enabling security professionals to work more productively. RAC/PACK is composed of three separate products: RA/2, RA/7, and RA/8. For more info contact Curt Mark at cmark@www.seasoft.com or phone (516) 328-7000 or see the website at:
http://www.seasoft.com.
Sage DNA for RACF (maps privileges, helps simplify and cleanup your database and convert to role-based administration). For more info contact Ron Rymon at sage@eurekify.com or see the website at:
http://www.eurekify.com.
NetQ's APPN-EE Firewall. For more info contact Peter Hager at p.hager@net-q.com or see the website at:
http://www.net-q.com.
The ZEN product line from Williams Data Systems includes software for monitoring, security, and control of APPN and TCP/IP networks, including ZEN FTP Control, ZEN EE Monitor, and ZEN EE Security. Call Ian Green at (703) 674-2200 or go to
http://www.willdata.com.
The Security Bridge from Security Integration provides a patented method for linking RACF to legacy application security. For more info, call (800) 888-5031, or see www.securityintegration.com.
PassGO (Formerly CKS) Call Amy Ricker (978) 635-1588 or www.passgo.com.
ASPG's Megacryption and ERQ (Easy RACF Query), ReAct & Cryptomon. Call Lisa Hamilton at (800) 662-6090 or Lisa.Hamilton@aspg.com for more info. Website: www.aspg.com.
Allen System Group has acquired Entact Information Security and offers tools for: RACF Administration, RACF/SMF Auditing, and Enterprise Identity Management. For info call Brent Phillips at 1-817-652-6335 or see http://www.asg.com/products/identmgmt.asp
RACF Password Cracker Program, no longer free, but with more features than the free version. Email Peter Goldis at
pgoldis@world.std.com or look at www.goldisconsulting.com
ICU MVS Penetration Analysis Tool and consulting from Janus Associates. Call (203) 251-0221 or www.janusassociates.com.
RtoR from Open Software Technologies. Call Everett Bowyer at (800) 226-3670 or http://www.open-softech.com/rtor.htm for info.
Beta System's software for RACF administration. Call (800) 777-9864 for more info. OR http://www.betasystems.com
Vanguard's Administrator and annual security conference. Call (714) 939-0377 for more info. OR http://www.go2vanguard.com
SecurePass from Proginet to link RACF with Windows NT security. Call (516) 248-3366 for more info. OR http://www.proginet.com

RACF (IBM's Mainframe Security Software) Sites

http://www.geocities.com/steveneeland/Sort_Reports.html Steve Neeland's RACF page
Thierry Falissard's RACF page http://www.os390-mvs.freesurf.fr/nbsp;
Nigel Pentland's security page http://www.nigelpentland.co.uk
IBM RACF home page:
IBM z/OS, including RACF: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/
IBM's RACF
IBM RACF Goodies Site
RACF-L Discussion Group

RACF Password Cracker Program

To join the RACF list server, send E-mail to the administrator for the server with the words
subscribe racf-l
followed by your first name and last name.
(Don't send it to the server itself or your request will be routed to every subscriber.)
For example, if your name is John Smith and you want to subscribe, then send this E-mail:

subscribe racf-l john smith

The address to send this to is

LISTSERV@uga.cc.uga.edu

or

LISTSERV@UGA.BITNET

The reply will include directions on how to get info such as a list of all subscribers, an index to previous comments, and a command summary. Expect lots of E-mail every week.

Seminar and Training Sites

Seminars on: MVS, JCL, Various Programming Languages including JAVA, DB2, CICS, Oracle, and z/OS UNIX
The Trainers Friend (Steven Comstock, (800) 993-
http://www.trainersfriend.com

Vendor and Product Specific Security Sites

Proginet (RACF to Windows NT Password Synchronization)
RtoR (REXX to RACF) software
Beta Systems Enterprise Security Manager for RACF
MegaSolve (RACF Administration Software)
JANUS Associates offers consulting in information security and business recovery planning. They also offer penetration/vulnerability assessment software for OS/390 - MVS operating systems using RACF.

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