Effective RACF Administration [TDS_BE87G]

OVERVIEW

This course prepares you to be a more effective security administrator as you gain experience and confidence in using the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server. To reinforce lectures, the course offers hands-on exercises where you use the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server to define users, set up group structures, define general resources, protect z/OS data sets, and use several RACF utilities.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

OBJECTIVES

• Identify the security requirements of a system
• Evaluate the facilities and options of RACF
• Define users to RACF
• Set up a RACF group structure
• Use RACF to protect resources
• Select options to tailor RACF
• Evaluate and implement RACF database and performance options
• Identify tools available for auditing
• Administer the system so that it is consistent with the installation's security goals

AUDIENCE

This intermediate course is for people who are new to the RACF component of the z/OS Security Server, and responsible for security administration. This includes people who are planning to implement RACF for the first time, and people who are security administrators in installations where RACF is already implemented. Those inexperienced z/OS users might find the course Basics of z/OS RACF Administration (ES19) more appropriate.

Anyone planning to implement the advanced features of RACF should consider attending Implementing RACF Security for CICS (ES84), and Exploiting the Advanced Features of RACF (ES88).

CONTENT

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1 - Security and RACF overview
• Unit 2 - Administering groups and users
• Exercise 1 - Log on to the lab system
• Exercise 2 - Defining a RACF group structure
• Exercise 3 - User administration

Day 2

• Exercise review
• Unit 2 - Administering groups and users (continued)
• Exercise 4 - Delegating security administration
• Unit 3 - Protecting z/OS data sets
• Exercise 5 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1

Day 3

• Exercise 5 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1 (continued)
• Exercise 6 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 2 Exercise review
• Unit 4 - Introduction to user administration and delegation and general resources
• Exercise 7 - Password reset granularity
• Unit 5 - RACF database, tables, and performance options

Day 4

• Unit 6 - RACF utilities and exits
• Unit 7 - RACF options
• Unit 8 - Auditing the RACF environment
• Exercise 8 - Using RACF for TSO administration (Optional)
• Exercise 9 - RACF utilities (Optional)
• Exercise 10 - RACF monitoring

Day 5

• Exercise review
• Unit 9 - Storage management and RACF
• Unit 10 - Security for JES facilities
• Unit 11 - Security classification