IBM Safenet/400 manual Testing Your Security Settings

Chapter 7 - TESTING YOUR SECURITY SETTINGS

Once you have planned your server function Security Level settings, SafeNet/400 gives you a method to test the settings to make sure they will provide the level of security you anticipate. It acts as a “what-if” tool to verify the effect your settings will have before you actually turn on access control.

If you have been logging network requests with SafeNet/400 you can, at any time, run each historical record through the security checking routines and receive a result of ‘ACCEPTED’ or ‘REJECTED’ based on current and future SafeNet/400 settings.

This allows you to make changes to the server function Security Level, the user-to-server settings, or data rights authorities, and using previously logged requests, tell immediately if your settings will give the desired response to the clients.

To test your collected transactions use:

On-line Transaction Tester (PCTESTR) – the preferred method

Security Report by User in test mode (Menu SN4, Option 1)

SafeNet/400 Reference Guide
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