CA Auditor, CA Auditor for z/OS
User Management Resource Administrator, UMRA
CA Auditor for z/OS (CA Auditor) is a powerful mainframe tool architected to help you achieve and maintain compliance with the myriad regulatory requirements that govern your business and IT systems. It enables you to perform an automated technical review of the system, hardware and software environment and to identify integrity exposures in z/OS. CA Auditor is designed to help you simplify auditing activities and eliminate manual processes so that users without in-depth experience can perform an extensive operating system review.
Auditor helps organizations ensure the security, integrity, and regulatory compliance of their mainframe environments. It provides comprehensive auditing capabilities that monitor and track user activity, system changes, and data access on the mainframe. By analyzing and reporting on these activities, Auditor helps organizations detect and respond to security threats, identify compliance violations, and investigate potential breaches or unauthorized activities.
Auditor Features
Auditor offers the following features:
Comprehensive Auditing: CA Auditor provides extensive auditing capabilities to monitor and track user activities, system changes, and data access on the mainframe.
Real-time Monitoring and Alerting: It offers real-time monitoring of critical events, allowing users to receive alerts and notifications when specific security incidents or policy violations occur.
Customizable Audit Policies: Users can define and customize audit policies based on their specific security and compliance requirements. This allows them to focus on the areas that are most critical to their organization.
Compliance Reporting: CA Auditor offers a wide range of pre-defined compliance reports that help users demonstrate adherence to regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, and GDPR. Reports can then be customized and scheduled for automatic generation.
Forensic Analysis: The solution includes powerful search and analysis capabilities that enable users to perform detailed forensic investigations. This helps in identifying the root cause of security incidents and understanding the full scope of unauthorized activities.
Audit Trail Archiving and Retention: CA Auditor allows users to archive and retain audit trail data for long-term storage and compliance purposes. This ensures that historical audit information is available for future analysis and audit reviews.
Integration with SIEM Solutions: The solution can integrate with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, allowing users to consolidate and correlate mainframe audit data with data from other IT systems.
Role-Based Access Control: Users can define access controls and assign roles to ensure that only authorized personnel have access to sensitive audit data and system configurations.
Interactive Query Interface: CA Auditor offers an interactive query interface that allows users to perform ad-hoc searches and queries on the audit data, providing flexibility in analyzing specific events or patterns of activity.
Audit Data Visualization: The solution includes visual representation capabilities, such as charts and graphs, to present audit data in a more intuitive and easily understandable format. This helps in identifying trends, anomalies, and patterns quickly.
Support for Mainframe Environment: CA Auditor is specifically designed for IBM's z/OS operating system, ensuring compatibility and optimized performance in mainframe environments.
Auditor Benefits
Some of the benefits that Auditor provides are:
Enhanced security and compliance
Comprehensive monitoring and tracking of user activities
Real-time alerts for security incidents
Customizable audit policies
Pre-defined compliance reporting
Powerful forensic analysis capabilities
Integration with SIEM solutions
Role-based access control
Interactive query interface
Visual representation of audit data
Identity & Access Manager is a complete Identity Governance & Administration Solution providing standardized management of user accounts and access rights on the network, while maintaining full compliance with laws and regulations in areas of HIPAA, SOX and many others.
We make it simple to connect your systems with our IAM services; such as User Provisioning, Workflow Management & Employee Self-Service, Helpdesk Delegation, Access Governance and Downstream Provisioning.
User Provisioning – Creating and disabling user accounts can take a huge amount of time manually. Our software creates a connection between the HR system and the user accounts in the network to automate the entire process for intake, progression, and outflow.
Workflow Management & Self-Service - Employees and managers can request, check, and approve resources without any IT intervention as part of a structured workflow within IAM. The manager can authorize the request and it can be implemented immediately in the network.
Helpdesk Delegation (HD) - All all user management tasks in IAM scenarios are recorded and linked to web forms, so user account management requests can be delegated downstream to less technical IT staff without requiring them to have advanced admin rights. Changes are recorded in an audit log, so you can simply delegate lesser user account management tasks rather than take up resources of IT team members with advanced admin rights.
Access Governance (AG) - supports the management of employee access rights for applications and data. Access Governance replaces the manual, imperfect and error-prone access management practices. Access rights are recorded in a universally-manageable model and are then issued, changed, and withdrawn through this model.
Downstream Provisioning – allows you establish automatic connectivity to systems other than Active Directory, Exchange, and NTFS for managing user accounts. Notification e-mails that are normally sent to application administrators are replaced by automatic application connections.
• If your organization has ever been through a security audit, you've no doubt dealt with the challenge of tracking all of the information you need for reporting such as: active/inactive user accounts, or access rights and system changes, just to name a few. You must be able to show that private data is kept safe. IAM can streamline account provisioning and management so that when audit time comes around, you have the information you need right at your fingertips.
• Connectivity is a hallmark of IAM. It provides direct connectivity to more than 100 systems and applications. IAM supports a wide range of systems that makes it possible not only to apply Workflow Management and Self-Service to user account management, but also to a variety of other service provisioning processes including: requesting physical access to a work area, applying for a smartphone, or submitting a helpdesk ticket.
• Centralization of information leads to greater efficiency. User account details are managed in one place in the organization, rather than by different departments. This allows for one "core registration" and the other systems sync to that core data source. With an automated system, the applicant himself has control over the moment of applying and the length of time he'll need to access certain information in the system requested.
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