zSecure

zSecure – Basic courses

Basic-level zSecure courses are targeted to be attended by the staff of new zSecure customers. No prior zSecure knowledge or experience is expected from the students to attend a basic training. However, students must have a working knowledge of RACF and have some basic experience with logging on to TSO and using ISPF panels and commands.

zSecure – Intermediate courses

Intermediate-level zSecure courses expect students to be familiar with the zSecure ISPF interface and know how to navigate through the various zSecure panels to select appropriate input sets, generate commands, or reports. Students must also know how to use overtyping and line commands to generate reports or profile maintenance commands. Generally, the students have 6 months or more experience with using zSecure Admin or Audit.

zSecure – Advanced courses

Advanced-level zSecure courses target users with a thorough knowledge of and experience with the standard zSecure ISPF interface. By attending advanced zSecure courses, students learn how they can customize reports or standard functions to fit with their company’s needs. Students also learn how to automate certain standard functions and build their own reports, compliance rules, or standards that zSecure does not support out of the box. It is suggested that students have at least 1 year of experience with using zSecure Admin or Audit before attending an advanced-level zSecure course.

zSecure – training paths

A zSecure training path is suggested for each zSecure job role. The next section of this document contains the role description for each zSecure job role and the programme duration. The programmes are built from the zSecure courses listed above.

zSecure – Central Security Administrator

This job role includes users with extensive RACF security administration capability who are responsible for the system-wide administration of the RACF database. It also includes the maintenance of the class descriptor table and the SETROPTS parameters. In addition, system programmers involved in the z/OS security process often require the same type of training as the central security administrator.

Duration: 11,5 to 12,5 days

zSecure – Auditor / Compliance Officer

This job role includes the central or decentralized employees who are responsible for auditing security implementation on the z/OS system and running rule-based compliance evaluations.

Duration: 10,5 to 12,5 days

zSecure – Decentralized Local Security Administrator

This job role includes local or decentralized employees with extensive RACF security administration capabilities. In addition to their basic security administration tasks, they often define, maintain, and delete user, group, dataset, and general resource profiles. They also administer the access control lists of resource profiles within their scope.

Duration: 5 to 12,5 days

zSecure – Limited Local Security Administrator

In general, the term Limited Local Security Administrators is used for personnel that are assigned limited RACF administrative capabilities. Usually, they are responsible for executing basic security administrative tasks such as resetting passwords, resuming users, and adding (or removing) existing users to (from) existing groups. Typical examples of limited local security administrators are non-technical staff, helpdesk, or first-line support staff.

Duration: 3 days