Rich Fochtman of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 04/10/2007 11:43:09 AM:
> -----------------------<snip>---------------------- > No, but there is a new mainframe security package called DEADBOLT > > (http://www.jmesoftware.com). > ----------------------<unsnip>-------------------- > I haven't looked at the details yet, but based on my extensive > experience with RACF (All the way back to 1.2) and my very limited > experience with ACF2 and TopSecret, I'd guess that several iterations of > this new package will be necessary before it's a really viable > competitor to "The Big Three". It's might hard to be all things to all > people when it comes to security. I like RACF the best, but even it has > some drawbacks. The most obvioous drawback that comes to mind is its > mediocre reporting capabilities. > Based on my 12 years of ACF2 security experience, I was impressed by what I heard about DeadBolt at SHARE. Web interface, DB2 data store, multi-platform, custom reporting, can run parallel with any of the Big-3 during evaluation, et al. One of the principals was an original designer of ACF2. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
