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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Mainframe Product must be configured to disable non-essential capabilities.

    <VulnDiscussion>It is detrimental for applications to provide, or install by default, functionality exceeding requirements or mission objecti...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000148

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000149

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the use of multifactor authentication, the ease of access to privileged functions is greatly increased. Multifactor...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000150

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Mainframe Product must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is comprom...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000165

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for network access to non-privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must use multifactor authentication to prev...
    Rule Medium Severity

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