BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation

Securing the environment

Batch scheduling platform is unlike normal application software, where anyone in the organization can access and have a play with. Tasks executed within can be dealt with confidential data, therefore, sensitive to the public. Also, because of the nature of cross-platform scheduling, once someone has access to it, the person potentially will be able to execute any scripts or commands on any machine as per the owner's requirements — the owner literally has the control of the whole environment. As such, security becomes one of the biggest concerns of centralizing batch scheduling. For organizations such as financial institutions, the secure level of the batch scheduling platform can be even more important than its general ...