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Top Answer:Top Secret is a great solution that can provide you with extensive capabilities to enforce very specific access controls for mainframe resources. You can set up intricate rules and restrictions… more »
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Overview

CA Mainframe Software Manager helps simplify and streamline your mainframe management tasks, increase staff productivity, and facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing so you can more effectively reduce the cost and complexity of managing mission-critical mainframe workloads well into the 21st century.

CA Top Secret for z/OS provides innovative, comprehensive security for your business transaction environments— including z/OS, UNIX and Linux on System z—helping you realize the reliability, scalability and cost-effectiveness of the mainframe. CA Top Secret provides an Advanced Authentication Mainframe feature, system entry validation, resource control, auditability, accountability, administrative control, and SAF compatibility. In conjunction with distributed security solutions from CA Technologies, CA Top Secret provides mobile-to-mainframe enterprise class security and compliance management.

Top Secret Features

Top secret provides the following features:

  • Access Control: Top Secret provides fine-grained control over user access to mainframe resources, allowing administrators to specify precisely which users can access specific datasets, programs, or system functions.

  • Auditing and Logging: The solution generates comprehensive audit trails, capturing security-related events and activities, enabling organizations to monitor and analyze user actions for compliance purposes and security incident investigations.

  • Secure Remote Administration: Administrators can also securely manage and administer Top Secret from remote locations, allowing for efficient administration without compromising security.

  • Encryption: Top Secret supports encryption of sensitive data, ensuring that information stored on the mainframe remains protected from unauthorized access or disclosure.

  • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): By implementing RBAC, Top Secret simplifies access management by assigning privileges and permissions based on predefined roles or job functions, reducing administrative overhead.

  • Integration with External Authentication Systems: Top Secret integrates with external systems, such as LDAP or Active Directory, enabling centralized user authentication and leveraging existing identity management infrastructure.

  • Secure Communication Channels: TS ensures secure communication channels between the mainframe and external systems, protecting data transmitted across networks from interception or tampering.

  • Compliance and Regulatory Support: Organizations can meet regulatory requirements and industry standards by providing security controls, auditing capabilities, and access management features.

  • Secure Key Management: Top Secret facilitates the secure management of encryption keys and digital signatures, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information.

  • Resource Protection: Mainframe resources are safeguarded from unauthorized access or modification, providing an additional layer of protection to critical assets and data.

  • Security Monitoring: The solution provides real-time monitoring of security events and alerts, enabling proactive threat detection and response to potential security incidents.

  • User Provisioning: Top Secret streamlines user provisioning processes, simplifying the onboarding and offboarding of users and ensuring that access is granted or revoked in a timely manner.

  • Session Management: The product offers session management capabilities, including session timeouts and session termination, ensuring that user sessions are properly managed and secure.

  • Top Secret Benefits

    Some of the benefits that Top Secret offers are:

    • Robust access control

    • Strong authentication mechanisms

    • Comprehensive auditing and logging

    • Protection of mainframe resources

    • Compliance with regulatory requirements

    • Secure remote administration

    • Encryption of sensitive data

    • Integration with external authentication systems

    • Secure communication channels

    • Support for encryption keys and digital signatures


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CA Mainframe Software Manager [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Data Center Monitoring while Top Secret is ranked 3rd in Mainframe Security. CA Mainframe Software Manager [EOL] is rated 7.4, while Top Secret is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of CA Mainframe Software Manager [EOL] writes "It aquires information about availability of hipers, current data about errors & retrieving the fixes, making it so that we're able to focus on the application of the changes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Top Secret writes "In terms of authorization, it controls what access accounts have with the two resources on the mainframe". CA Mainframe Software Manager [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Top Secret is most compared with IBM Resource Access Control Facility, ACF2, IBM Security zSecure and CA TPX Session Manager.

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