On May 16, 2018 a new service stream enhancement (SSE) to zSecure 2.3.0 has become generally available, providing enhancements for data encryption, data classification, and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) feeds.   Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential  business production applications in many organizations due to the strong heritage of integrated security support capabilities across hardware, operating system, software and applications. The IBM z14 enables the ultimate data... [More]

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On December 16, 2017 a new service stream enhancement (SSE) to zSecure Audit 2.3.0 has become generally available, adding enhancements to ACF2 support (for example, for z/OS UNIX and CICS) and compliance functions (for example, multiple sensitivities and a new DB2_ACCESS report type).   Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential  business production applications in many organizations due to the strong heritage of integrated security support capabilities across hardware, operating system,... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure suite 2.3.0 was co-announced with IBM Z pervasive encryption capabilities on July 17, 2017 with a planned availability date of August 11, 2017. You can read the US announcement letter here . This release provides currency with z/OS V2R3, CICS V5R4, Db2 12, and DISA-STIG 6.31, adds or extends integration with IBM QRadar SIEM and HPE Security ArcSight, and extends support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).   Background Mainframes continue to be the home for mission critical information and essential  business production... [More]

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On July 4, 2017 a new service stream enhancement (SSE) to zSecure Audit 2.2.1 has become generally available, adding additional compliance checks for the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for z/OS from the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This SSE focuses on adding Access Control Program (ACP) controls for systems protected through CA-ACF2. This builds on the ACF2_SENSDSN_ACCESS report type first provided in zSecure Audit 2.2.1.   Background The Security Technical Implementation Guide from DISA provides a... [More]

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IBM   CIC S  Tr a nsa c tio n  Se r ver   for   z/O S  V5 . 4 has become generally available on June 16, 2017. Toleration fixes for zSecure 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, and 2.2.1 have been made available on June 23, 2017. A new field is introduced to report on the terminal read timeout for a CICS transaction.   Background IBM Security zSecure can detect security settings for CICS regions and report on CICS transactions and programs, and can process CICS security events. ISPF menu option RE.C displays information about... [More]

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A Service Stream Enhancement (SSE)  for IBM Security zSecure 2.2.1 has been made available on April 19, 2017 to provide support for new DB2 12 features. These include DB2 region settings, new SMF log record event subtypes, and a new DB2 object privilege.   Background IBM Security zSecure suite builds on the security support in z/OS and  IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) to enhance mainframe security capabilities. Some components of the zSecure suite also support CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret. The zSecure Collect component automatically... [More]

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A Service Stream Enhancement (SSE) has been made available for the Access Monitor component of zSecure Admin 2.2.1 on March 30, 2017 to enable analytics processing. Insight Pack 3 for IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems (IOAz) 3.1 was made available around the same time, enabling IOAz to process Access Monitor statistics.   Background IBM  Secu rity  zSe cure  sui t e can help you protect your enterprise, detect threats, comply with policy and regulations and reduce costs. Most of the products run on the z/OS operating system. The zSecure... [More]

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IBM Security zSecure suite 2.2.1 was announced on October 25, 2016 with a planned availability date of December 9, 2016. You can read the US announcement letter here . This release provides live SMF event streaming to IBM QRadar SIEM, enhanced alerting capability in zSecure Alert based on specific access events captured by zSecure Admin Access Monitor, improved scalability through exploitation of 64-bit addressing mode, new policies in zSecure Command Verifier including the ability to link denial of access to an external security rule, zSecure... [More]

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z/VM V6R4 was announced on October 25, 2016 with a planned availability date of November 11, 2016. Toleration fixes have been made available beforehand for zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 and 1.11.2 and for zSecure for z/OS 2.1.0, 2.1.1, and 2.2.0.   Background IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM helps you protect your z/VM systems. You can feed the data collected by its zSecure Collect for z/VM (CKVCOLL) component into IBM Security zSecure Admin and zSecure Audit. This allows comprehensive analysis including both z/OS and z/VM... [More]

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A set of user interface productivity enhancements to zSecure 2.2.0 has been made available in a Service Stream Enhancement (SSE) on July 30, 2016.   Background IBM Security zSecure suite can help you protect your enterprise, detect threats, comply with policy and regulations and reduce costs. Most of the products run on the z/OS operating system. IBM Security zSecure Admin boosts productivity for RACF administrators. IBM Security zSecure Audit helps review the security of the system in various ways. IBM Security zSecure Alert is a... [More]

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The announcement letter for IBM Security zSecure suite 2.2.0 issued on October 1, 2015 contained a Statement of Direction about providing 64-bit addressing support on a future date. This support has become available on June 25, 2016 through a Service Stream Enhancement (SSE). This SSE also contains performance improvements and scoping enhancements that also apply to 31-bit addressing mode.   Background IBM Security zSecure suite can help you protect your enterprise, detect threats, comply with policy and regulations and reduce costs. Most of... [More]

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On February 16, 2016 IBM announced authentication enhancements including a new product IBM Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS (5655-162), with a planned availability date of March 25, 2016. z/OS Security Server RACF provided enabling infrastructure updates for z/OS V2R1 and V2R2. Supporting service stream enhancements to zSecure 2.1, 2.1.1, and 2.2 were made available around the same time. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) raises the level of assurance of mission-critical systems. It is particularly important to strongly authenticate users... [More]

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In November 2014, RACF and zSecure provided security enhancements to passwords for z/OS .  Equivalent support has now been provided for z/VM V6R3.   Background Password security is a function as much of user education as of technical controls such as making it harder for a cracker to run a brute-force attack. The Introduction provided in the Technote made available for RACF APAR OA43999 (for the original support on z/OS) provides an extensive discussion. The new enhancements provide new configurations... [More]

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IBM  Secu rity  zSe cure  sui t e 2.2.0 was announced on October 1, 2015 with a planned availability date of November 6, 2015. You can read the US announcement letter here . This release provides currency with z/OS V2R2, IMS 14, CICS V5R3, and Windows 10, extends the zSecure Audit Compliance Testing Framework and user interface for standards such as DISA-STIG and PCI-DSS, and adds or extends integration with IBM Security QRadar SIEM and IBM Security Identity Governance.   Background IBM Security zSecure suite can help you protect your... [More]

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