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Learn how to add advanced security capabilities for your network and communications applications and how to add highly secure cryptographic processing capability to your IBM mainframe server. Find information about object signing and signature validation, identity mapping and solutions to Internet security risks.

Leveraging mainframe hardware and software encryption
One of the best ways to secure information over the Internet is to encrypt it. IBM mainframe provides exceptional performance and function via cryptography coprocessors and accelerators available with z9-109, z990 and z890, that can be individually specialised to address various encryption needs. And now with the addition of the Encryption Facility for z/OS V1.1 when properly configured with the appropriate hardware features, you can enjoy the advantages that our software encryption solution provides.
Want the ability to issue and manage digital certificates?
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Services (US), now Identrus certified, allows you to establish a Public Key Infrastructure and serve as a Certificate Authority (CA) for your internal and external users. Issuing and administering digital certificates in accordance with your own organisation's policies policies can represent a significant savings to businesses that currently use a third party CA.
Communicate in a security-rich environment
OpenSSH for z/OS (US)
IBM Ported Tools for z/OS is a non-priced program product designed to deliver OpenSSH for the z/OS platform. OpenSSH is intended to allow a non-z/OS server to communicate in a security-rich environment with a z/OS server using the ssh protocol in a security-rich environment.
Detect attacks from the network
Intrusion Detection Services (US)
Intrusion Detection Services (IDS) enables the detection of attacks and the application of defensive mechanisms on the z/OS server. The focus of IDS is self-protection.
No need for multiple databases
Multi-Level Security —Now EAL3+ Common Criteria Security Certified!
Security features enable customers to have a security-rich, single repository of data which can be accessed by different agencies, by people with different need-to-know authority.
Capability to eliminate the need of sending passwords over the network
Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) (US)
Help address the problem of dealing with multiple user registries more easily and potentially with less cost than previously possible. You may eliminate the need to cache or send passwords over the network by writing multi-tier applications that never have to ask the user for a platform-specific user identity and password when accessing legacy data.
Need to assess your security?
Review zSeries latest achievements in attaining new and higher levels of Common Criteria Security Certification (US) for key hardware and software.

Find out the significance of Identrus certification (US) for our Certificate Authority Solution - PKI Services for z/OS V1.5.
Too many passwords to manage?
Learn about Kerberos feature (US)
Kerberos is a network authentication protocol, designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications using secret-key cryptography. This feature can help alleviate a common end user complaint of having to manage multiple passwords.
Gain Control of Enterprise Identity Data
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator R6 (US), now supported on z/OS, is an open-architecture, metadirectory solution for synchronizing and exchanging information realtime between applications or directory sources. It enables enterprises to establish an authoritative, up-to-date, identity data infrastructure to serve as a platform for their business critical security and Web services applications.
 
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