AS/400 Security (Audio Training)

Course Description:
AS/400 Security is a self-paced, audiocassette course providing comprehensive, practical, hands-on training on the fundamentals of AS/400 security.

Time required: approximately 14 hours

Upon completion of this audio program, you will be able to:
   • Develop policies for securing objects
   • Create, maintain, and delete user profiles, group profiles, and authorization lists
   • Protect objects with explicit authority, group profiles, and authorization lists
   • Identify and modify IBM-supplied user profiles
   • Set up defaults for public authority to objects
   • Set the system security level
   • Set security-related system values referenced by user profiles with security policies
   • Change user authority to objects to a level appropriate for the object type
   • Set up rules for passwords and failed sign-on attempts
   • Change the owner of an object and establish defaults for the creation of new objects
   • Determine when adopted authority should be used
   • Identify programs that adopt owner’s authority
   • Use the Security, User, and Object Auditing features to monitor activity
   • Use IBM-supplied security tools

Audience: System Administrators and Programmers

Prerequisites: AS/400 Workstation Operations AS/400 System Operations AS/400 Advanced System Operations

Course Outline:
   User Profiles
      User Classifications
      Special Authorities
      Limiting Capabilities
      User Control Over Own Profile
      IBM-supplied User Profiles
      Creating, Changing, and Deleting Profiles
      Using Model Profiles
      Group Profiles
   Object Authority
      Object and Data Rights
      Authority Search Sequence
      Granting and Revoking Authority
      Libraries, Files, and Output Queues
      Field Level Security Using Logical Files
      Column Level Security (V4R2)
      DLO and IFS Security
      Group Authority
      Object Ownership
      Public Authority
      Adopting Authority
   Security Controls
      Setting the Security Level
      Limiting Device Sessions
      Invalid Sign-on Attempts
      Inactive Display Sessions
      Remote Sign On
      Password Rules
      Adopted Authority
   Security Strategies
      Password, Menu, and Resource Security
      Using Group Profiles
      Using Authorization Lists
      Object Ownership Policies
      Restricting Devices and Subsystems
      Security Officers and Administrators
   Tracking Security Events
      Authority Failures and Changes
      User Profile Changes
      Invalid Sign-on Attempts
      Restored Objects
      Deleted Objects
      User Activity
      Object Activity
Course Details:

Level:	Intermediate
Subject:	Security
Length:	14 hrs.
Materials:	13 Audiocassettes; Student Text; Workbook; Interactive media
Publisher:	ATS
Publish Date:	June 1998