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Article: How MBTA keeps its network secure, manageable. (the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's use of Security Integration's Security Bridge security software) (Product Information)(Cover Story)
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- Communications News
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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The IS philosophy of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) can be summed up in three words: keep it simple. MBTA stayed true to its philosophy when it came to securing the financial applications that run across its network. By bringing data security under one security blanket, MBTA's mix of mainframe and application security controls was transformed into an easily managed, centralized system.
To protect MBTA information systems, which 1,500 users across the greater metropolitan Boston area can access, MBTA implemented Computer Associates' ACF2 host security to control who can access the corporate mainframes and how they can access them. But when MBTA ...