Sarnia Enterprise Security

Sarnia has a long pedigree in delivering enterprise security solutions focused on mainframe platforms, subsystems and applications. Company founder and Lead Security Architect Keith Bougourd brings more than 40 years’ industry experience, helping clients and their teams around the world to secure and optimize mainframe installations. He has particular expertise working with banking and finance clients. Established in 2023 and based in Adelaide, South Australia, Sarnia has now launched esmGUI, a revolutionary multi-ESM security admin user interface. esmGUI by Sarnia has been selected by BMC as a strategic partner through their Market Zone Direct program and is also being deployed in partnership with Vertali, a leading global provider of mainframe skills and support. Sarnia solutions and services include: • esmGUI to streamline mainframe security management across ACF2, RACF and Top Secret ESMs simultaneously, saving time and improving security (see below). • Reviewing ESM databases and other systems to pre-empt audit and review findings, formulating and implementing corrective actions. • Security Assessments and Penetration Testing of ESM databases and z/OS systems to identify risks and exposures. • Designing and executing remediation strategies and lifecycle improvements. • Role-based access control (RBAC) planning, implementation and automation. • ACF2 to RACF conversion, with full project and process guidance. • RACF strategic architecture and standardization of multiple RACF databases. • Design of zSecure and administration interfaces for integrated business logic driven processing; a cost-effective and secure automated approach. • Project managing multiple simultaneous and complex activities necessary for regulatory compliance and to achieve strategic enterprise security objectives.