Stream: Virtual Room 7
Time: 15:00 - 15:45
What would it take to make z/OS security simpler? How could RACF management align with an increasingly automated management paradigm? How could we reduce the frustration involved in building security solutions on the platform?
This presentation seeks to showcase tools built to solve these problems working with different RACF callable services: namely pyRACF (a python-centric RACF administration tool) and RACFu (a C/C++ based tool for RACF administration usable by many programming languages) as well as the methodologies used to build them.
Learn about ways these tools create a task-oriented methodology for managing security while hiding the complexity of different RACF callable services, and how you can contribute to this emerging open-source effort to simplify z/OS management.
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Elijah Swift Co-Lead Developer pyRACF Elijah Swift is a Backend Software Developer based out of Poughkeepsie, NY. He has a Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering from SUNY Binghamton and holds a CISSP certification as well as CompTIA's Security+. Elijah spent 4 years in IBM support, largely supporting and working with mainframe security products and specializing in RACF. He has also been a co-lead developer on pyRACF and related projects for 2 years, and has also authored and contributed to a number of RACF manuals, public presentations, technotes and an IBM redbook.
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