Mainframe Security Assessment: Sub System Ibm Ims™

Mainframe Security Assessment: Sub System Ibm Ims™

What you get:

BMC will perform the following for one IMS database instance:

  • Conduct interviews with key Customer staff including:
    • Security engineering
    • Security administration
    • Systems programming team
    • Customer technical management
  • Conduct assessment of IMS covering:
    • Review of security controls in ESM including the defined resources and profiles as well as the access granted
    • Review of security related configuration settings including definitions contained within the sequential, PDS datasets, or instream
  • Analyze data to identify vulnerabilities
  • Create draft Security Assessment Report
  • Create the Remediation Effort Indicator document detailing issues and risks identified during the security assessment.
  • Finalize Security Assessment Report
  • Provide encrypted deliverables to Customer

Customer will be responsible for:

  • Providing access to key Customer staff for interviews
  • Providing remote access to the customer mainframe via Virtual Private Network (VPN) or Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI)
  • Reviewing the draft deliverables
  • Providing feedback within a timely manner 

Deliverables: Using BMC’s standard methodology and templates, the following Deliverables are in scope for this project and will be delivered:

  • Security Assessment Report
  • Remediation Effort Indicators

Completion Criteria: BMC will have completed these Consulting Services when the in-scope Consulting Services have been completed and the Deliverables have been delivered to the Customer Project Manager.

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