Vanguard Releases New Version of Security Software Solutions To Deliver Better Security Oversight and Regulatory Compliance

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the leader in enterprise security software for mainframes, today announced the immediate availability of the newest release of Vanguard Security Solutions software. The new 8.2 version supports the upcoming release of IBM z/OS 1.12, and provides more than 100 ease of use, security control and reporting enhancements, including support for RACF Custom Fields.

"Many of the enhancements in the new version of Vanguard Security Solutions are in response to customer requests," said Keegan O'Neill, director of research and development for Vanguard. "Vanguard customers have already deployed and are realizing the benefits of a large number of these new features. The new capabilities in 8.2 enable organizations to be more efficient and accurate when managing their mission critical IT infrastructures and responding to regulatory compliance requirements."

"We are moving to Custom Fields for many of our processing options," said a senior technical analyst at one of North America's leading property and casualty insurance companies.  "With the new Custom Fields support in Vanguard Security Solutions 8.2, converting to and maintaining Custom Fields will be so much easier than with native RACF commands. The 8.2 release also makes it easy to view Vanguard Policy Manager activities using Vanguard Advisor reports, which is a great help to us."

For a complete description of the more than 100 enhancements in Vanguard Security Solutions 8.2, visit www.go2vanguard.com. Some of the new features include:

Enhanced Ease of Use

• Better navigation and an updated user interface to improve productivity for users of Vanguard Security Center, the leading Windows GUI RACF administration tool. The new look-and-feel features of Windows Vista and Windows 7 include tabs, multiplatform displays and side-by-side comparisons of profiles.
• Leverage Custom Fields in RACF for improved accuracy with new Command Support that makes it easy to create and define Custom Fields within Vanguard Security Software Solutions without having to know native RACF commands.

Increased Security Controls

• Maintain tighter control over access to resources with new ownership-based policy creation capabilities that prevent unauthorized profile modifications to data set and general resource profiles.
• Respond rapidly to unauthorized changes in security postures with enhanced real-time active alerts that notify security personnel when privileged attributes are removed.
• Improve security monitoring and detection capabilities, and support for Sarbanes Oxley data integrity requirements, with expanded privileged user sensor capabilities that now include Protected and Restricted user attributes.

Expanded Reporting

• Improve security administration with Custom Fields Reporting that enables the easy creation of predefined and QuickGen custom reports on all Custom Fields data.
• Streamline compliance reporting with Cross Segment Extended Access List and Connect reporting that masks sensitive personal information and combines information, such as user, group and resource profile data, into one cohesive report.
• Enhance security analysis and compliance reporting with expanded Data Set Activity and Sensitive Library reports that now identify who is accessing VSAM data sets and for what purpose.

Existing customers with a current Vanguard maintenance contract should download version 8.2 of Vanguard Security Solutions software from Vanguard's Customer Zone immediately. New customers will receive the most current release automatically.

For more information, visit www.go2vanguard.com.

About Vanguard Integrity Professionals

Vanguard Integrity Professionals provides enterprise security software and services that solve complex security and regulatory compliance challenges for government agencies and corporations around the world. With solutions for Audit and Compliance, Security Administration, Intrusion Detection and Identity and Access Management, Vanguard automates processes necessary to identify and mitigate the risks customers face. Vanguard's customers receive a rapid return on investment and are able to focus on other critical business needs thereby becoming more productive and more secure.

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