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Publish Date
03 April 2007
Last Update
26 April 2007
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Author(s)
- Rica Weller
- Ross Clements
- Ken Dugdale
- Per Fremstad
- Olegario Hernandez
- William C. Johnston
- Patrick Kappeler
Rica Weller is a Project Manager at the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), working in New Zealand and the U.S. She was a Systems Engineer for S/390 for two years and a Senior Consultant for IBM WebSphere Business Integration on z/OS in the Competence Center with IBM Germany for three years. She also taught classes, presented at several conferences, and coauthored several Redbooks about WebSphere for z/OS and textbooks about System z basics. Rica holds a degree in Business Administration from University of Technology Dresden, Germany, and a Master's Degree in Management from Massey University, New Zealand.
Ross Clements is a Senior Security Analyst and has been working for IBM Global Services in Australia for the last 10 years. He provides technical advice and administration support for mainframe security to IBM's clients in Australia and Asia. He has been in the IT industry for 38 years in many roles on mainframe computers and has worked on MVS and z/OS platforms for the last 22 years specializing in IBM's Security Server, RACF.
Ken Dugdale has worked at IBM for 11 years, and is a Coordinator of System z Security Advisories at IBM for North America involved in site, network, and host security. He has 30 years of experience in the computer field with some of Canada's largest companies. His experience includes network and firewall auditing, mainframe operations and analysis, systems programming of VM internals, and applications development on the VM and OS/2 platforms. He has served as a security process auditor on Windows Server, OS/2 LAN Server, Novel, AIX, Linux, and VM. He has experience in technical writing, and educational material design and training.
Per Fremstad is an IBM certified IT specialist from IBM Systems and Technology Group, Norway. He has worked for IBM since 1982 and has extensive experience with System z and z/OS. His areas of expertise include the Internet, IBM WebSphere product family, and Web enabling applications on z/OS. He teaches frequently on WebSphere and Java topics and about System z and z/OS at several universities. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oslo, Norway.
Olegario Hernandez is a former IBM Advisory Systems Engineer. He has more than 35 years of experience in application design and development projects in the IBM mainframe area. He has written extensively on CICS/Application Interface, systems management and grid computing through his participations in projects at various ITSO Centers. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Chile.
William C. Johnston is a Software Engineer at IBM in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has worked for IBM since 1982. His primary focus has always been on testing and quality assurance. He was originally hired to perform testing of the 308x and 3090 families of processors (precursors of todays System z systems). Since 1990 he has designed and executed tests on RACF and other z/OS related security components. He currently designs and coordinates testing strategies against security services provided by components and products for z/OS and other platforms.
Patrick Kappeler is an IBM certified I/T specialist who joined IBM in 1970 as a diagnostic programs designer. He has held specialist and management positions in France and in several international assignments, all dealing with S/390 and System z Technical Support. He has been part of the EMEA Products and Solutions Support Center, located in Montpellier (France) since 1996, where his domain of expertise is e-business security on System z. He extensively writes and presents on this topic.
ISBN
0738489646
IBM Form Number
SG24-6776-00