Acrónimos: RACF
Producto de
IBM que proporciona control de acceso y funciones de auditoría.
RACF, short for Resource
Access Control Facility, is an IBM software product. It is a security system
that provides access control and auditing functionality for the z/OS and z/VM
operating systems. Its primary market competitors have been ACF2 and TopSecret,
both now produced by Computer Associates.
In addition to being one of
the most mature and scalable security monitors in computing, it has some
interesting features that are not often found in Microsoft Windows or Unix
environments. It can, for example, set permissions for file patterns — that is,
set the permissions even for files that do not yet exist. Those permissions are
then used should the file (or other object) be created at a later time. In
other words, RACF establishes security policies rather than just permission
records.
RACF has continuously
evolved to support such modern security features as digital certificates/public
key infrastructure services, LDAP interfaces, and case sensitive IDs/passwords.
(The latter is a reluctant concession to promote interoperability with other
systems, such as Unix and Linux.) The underlying zSeries hardware works closely
with RACF. For example, digital certificates are protected within tamper-proof
cryptographic processors. Major mainframe subsystems, especially DB2 Version 8,
use RACF to provide multi-level security (MLS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RACF
RACF est l'outil de
gestion de la sécurité proposé par IBM sur ses environnements grands systèmes
(AS/X, OS/X) et sur son système d'exploitation VM.
http://securit.free.fr/glossaire.htm