Plan and set up system security

This topic collection provides you with detailed information about planning, setting up, and using your system security. This topic collection combines the information formerly in the Basic system security and planning topic collection and in the Tips and Tools for Securing Your iSeries™ manual.

Determining your company's system security is one of the most basic and most important decisions that you will make during the course of building your security plan. With system security you need to balance the need to safeguard your valuable information and the need of users to access that information to successfully make your company thrive. To strike this balance you must understand the specific needs and goals of your company's current direction but also be aware of future needs. Your security plan must protect your resources but also must be flexible enough to grow as your company grows.

Several tools exist that can aid you in creating, configuring, and managing your system-level security on your server. It is important to note that security does not end with protecting the server and managing access to assets that are stored on the system. A complete security implementation needs to cover not only system level security, but also network level security and transaction level security. This topic focuses on system-level security.

Use this information to develop a personalized plan that fits your company's specific system security needs. After you complete the planning phase of your system security, you can set up system security by using the instructions provided in this information.

• What's new for V5R4
  Plan and set up system security provides information on how to effectively and systematically plan and configure system-level security.
• Printable PDF
  Use this to view and print a PDF of this information.
• Frequently asked questions
  These are common questions about setting up and using system security.
• Concepts
  To effectively create a security policy and plan security measures for your system, you need to understand the following security concepts, some of which are general concepts and some of which are specific to the hardware type.
• eServer Security Planner
  This information describes the eServer™ Security Planner and explains its value.
• Plan your security strategy
  This topic describes various aspects of planning a security strategy.
• Implement your security strategy
  This topic describes the tasks for implementing your security strategy, explains why they are important, and provides links to the implementation topics.
• Manage security
  Once you've planned and implemented your security strategy, there remains the task of managing the security of your system.
• Monitor security
  This set of topics discuss various techniques for monitoring and auditing security on your system.
• Related information for security planning
  Listed here are the product manuals and IBM^® Redbooks™ (in PDF format), Web sites, and information center topics that relate to the Plan and set up system security topic. You can view or print any of the PDFs.