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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Mainframe Product must terminate shared/group account credentials when members leave the group.

    If shared/group account credentials are not terminated when individuals leave the group, the user that left the group can still gain access even though they are no longer authorized. A shared/group...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000319

    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must automatically audit account enabling actions.

    Once an attacker establishes access to an application, the attacker often attempts to create a persistent method of re-establishing access. One way to accomplish this is for the attacker to simply ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000320

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000328

    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce organization-defined discretionary access control policies over defined subjects and objects.

    Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in which...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000340

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000342

    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must prevent software as identified in the site security plan from executing at higher privilege levels than users executing the software.

    In certain situations, software applications/programs need to execute with elevated privileges to perform required functions. However, if the privileges required for execution are at a higher level...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000343

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000345

    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must automatically lock the account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes are exceeded.

    By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000357

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000358

    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must off-load audit records onto a different system or media than the system being audited.

    Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000359

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000360

    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must provide an immediate real-time alert to the operations staff, system programmers, and/or security administrators, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

    It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impe...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000364

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000365

    Group

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