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CICS Security Features

CA Top Secret offers extensive and flexible security protection for CICS regions, transactions, and resources. No modifications to CICS code are required, therefore, CA Top Secret will remain compatible with future releases of CICS. Multi-Region Option (MRO) and Inter-System Communications (ISC) are fully supported.

In addition to the special CICS security features described here, many of the standard CA Top Secret security mechanisms can be applied to CICS. The most useful include:

• Signon Security
• Password Validation
• Terminal Security
• Authorization Restrictions
• Job Submission Validation
• Security Administration
• Security Key
• Multiple Signons