Managing security

Once you have planned and implemented your security strategy, there remains the task of managing the security of your system.

These topics will guide you through setting up your security management plan:

• Back up and recover security information

• Manage security information

• Manage service tools user IDs

• Protect against computer viruses

• Restricting save and restore capability
  Part of your security system should be controlling users' save and restore capabilities.

• Saving security information
  This topic presents an overview of how you save and restore security information.

• Restoring security information
  Recovering your system often requires restoring data and associated security information.

• Managing security information
  This topic describes the tasks for managing security information.

• Configuring the system to use security tools
  This information describes how to set up your system to use the security tools that are part of i5/OS^®.

• Using security exit programs
  Some system functions provide an exit so that your system can run a user-created program to perform additional checking and validation. For example, you can set up your system to run an exit program every time that someone attempts to open a DDM (distributed data management) file on your system.

• Managing service tools user ID
  This topic describes how to manage service tool user IDs using DST, SST, and iSeries Navigator.

• Protecting against computer viruses
  This topic provides some tips for protecting against computer viruses and suspicious programs.

• Using the Print Publicly Authorized Objects command (PRTPUBAUT)
  This topic describes how to use the print publicly authorized objects commands (PRTPUBAUT), explains why it is important, and provides step-by-step instructions.

• Using the Print Private Authorities command (PRTPVTAUT)
  This topic describes how to use the print private authorities command (PRTPVTAUT), explains why it is important, and provides step-by-step instructions.

• Using the Print System Security Attributes command (PRTSYSSECA)
  

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