Managing optical security and auditing

You can secure information about optical media by using IBM® i security functions.

The level of security available depends on the optical media format of the volume. You can use an authorization list to secure all optical volumes. This includes all volumes in CD-ROM, DVD, LAN-attached, directly-attached, and virtual optical devices. Universal Disk Format (UDF) volumes provide directory- and file-level security in addition to authorization list security. Optical support provides ways to prevent unauthorized access and processing of data that is stored on optical volumes. Optical support does this by verifying a requester’s rights to specific optical volumes before attempting the following requests:

• Open file or directory
• Create directory
• Delete file or directory
• Rename file
• Initialize or rename volume
• Remove cartridge
• Change or retrieve attributes
• Copy
• Backup or convert backup
• Save or release held files
• Read sectors
• Save optical volume storage
• Restore optical volume storage
• Check optical volume for damaged files

Along with security for optical volumes, directories, and files, auditing of access to optical objects is also available.