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White Papers:

Security Benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z (533KB)
This paper explores the security benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z.

z/VM V5.3 Secure Configuration Guide (1.02MB)
Describes how to configure z/VM V5.3 to conform with the requirements of the Common Criteria controlled access and labeled security protection profiles.

Linux Security: Exploring Open Source Security for a Linux Server Environment (1.35MB)
Recommendations based on experiences of the IBM security study that deployed and compared various open source security tools that were available for free in the industry.

Redbooks™/Redpapers:

IBM Tivoli Security and System z
Summary of the coverage of the Tivoli Security products on System z, both in what runs on System z and what management/security of System z resources IBM can provide.

Security on z/VM
This book provides an overview of security and integrity provided by z/VM and the processes for the implementation and configuration of z/VM Security Server, z/VM LDAP Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS, and Linux on System z with PAM for LDAP authentication.

Linux on zSeries and S/390: Best Security Practices
Best security practices for running Linux as a z/VM guest on zSeries and S/390 machines. The book considers both z/VM and Linux security topics.

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