This is followed by a section on performance management and monitoring, with considerations of how the overhead security imposes on the performance of the system may be reduced without compromising controls. The manual concludes detailing audit and the use of audit of an AS400.

Overviews: AS400 overview. AS400 security overview. Creating a Secure Environment: Security features. User profiles and authorities. Password security. Backup and recovery. Security Administration: Solving user access problems. Performance Management and Monitoring: System management. System management monitoring. System access monitoring. Security overhead. Auditing and Audit Use of the AS400: AS400 audit. AS400 file interrogation. Use of query by auditors. File transfer from AS400 to a PC.