Monitor security

This set of topics discuss various techniques for monitoring and auditing security on your system.

In a security audit, you would be reviewing and examining the activities of a data processing system to test the adequacy and effectiveness of procedures for data security and data accuracy. The security audit journal is the primary source of auditing information on the system. A security auditor inside or outside your organization can use the auditing function provided by the system to gather information about security-related events that occur on the system.

An intrusion detection system is software that detects attempts or successful attacks on monitored resources that are part of a network or host system.

This set of topics describes the tasks for auditing and monitoring system security:

• Plan security auditing
  Use this information to plan security auditing for your systems.
• Prevent and detect security exposures
  The following information is a collection of tips to help you detect potential security exposures.
• Monitor access to output and job queues
  This article describes how to monitor access to output and job queues, explains why it is important, and provides step-by-step instructions.
• Monitor subsystem descriptions
  This article provides suggestions for reviewing the subsystem descriptions that currently exist on your system.
• Monitor authority
  This topic provides basic suggestions for monitoring the effectiveness of the security safeguards on your system.
• Monitor security messages
  How to monitor security messages and why they are important
• Prevent loss of auditing information
  This article describes which information to look for to prevent loss of auditing information.
• Manage the journal receivers
  How to manage the journal receivers.
• Save and delete audit journal receivers
  This article describes how to save and delete audit journal receivers, explains why it is important, and provides step-by-step instructions.
• Stop the audit function
  How to turn off the auditing function
• Use the history log
  How to use the history log, why it is important, and step-by-step instructions for setting it up.