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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000090

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  • The Mainframe Product must allow only the information system security manager (ISSM) or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM to select which auditable events are to be audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel ma...
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  • SRG-APP-000091

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  • The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
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  • The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing what type of event occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
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  • SRG-APP-000096

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  • The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing when events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to a...
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  • SRG-APP-000097

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  • The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to ...
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  • SRG-APP-000098

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  • The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing the source of the event, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up...
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  • SRG-APP-000099

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  • The Mainframe Product must produce audit records containing information to establish the outcome of the events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without information about the outcome of events, security personnel cannot make an accurate assessment as to whether an attac...
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  • SRG-APP-000100

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  • The Mainframe Product must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands or the individual identities of group account users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. O...
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  • SRG-APP-000108

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  • The Mainframe Product must alert the system administrator (SA) and information system security officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
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  • SRG-APP-000109

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  • The Mainframe Product must shut down by default upon audit failure (unless availability is an overriding concern).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical that when the application is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it take action to mitigate ...
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  • SRG-APP-000111

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the or...
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  • SRG-APP-000112

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the execution of prohibited mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Decisions regarding the employment of mobile code within organizational information systems are based on the potential for th...
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  • SRG-APP-000115

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  • The Mainframe Products must provide the capability to filter audit records for events of interest as defined in site security plan.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to specify the event criteria that are of interest provides the persons reviewing the logs with the ability to qu...
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  • SRG-APP-000116

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  • The Mainframe Products must use internal system clocks to generate time stamps for audit records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without an internal clock used as the reference for the time stored on each event to provide a trusted common reference for t...
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  • SRG-APP-000118

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  • The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from any type of unauthorized read access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If audit data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially ma...
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  • SRG-APP-000119

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  • The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from unauthorized modification.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If audit data were to become compromised, then forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious sy...
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  • SRG-APP-000120

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  • The Mainframe Product must protect audit information from unauthorized deletion.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If audit data were to become compromised, then forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious sy...
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  • SRG-APP-000121

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  • The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, pro...
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  • SRG-APP-000122

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  • The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized modification.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, pro...
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  • SRG-APP-000123

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  • The Mainframe Product must protect audit tools from unauthorized deletion.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, pro...
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  • SRG-APP-000131

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  • The Mainframe Product must prevent the installation of patches, service packs, or application components without verification that the software component has been digitally signed using a certificate that is recognized and approved by the organization.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes to any software components can have significant effects on the overall security of the application. Verifying softwar...
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  • SRG-APP-000133

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  • The Mainframe Product must limit privileges to change the Mainframe Product installation datasets to system programmers and authorized users in accordance with applicable access control policies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the application were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented with...
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  • SRG-APP-000133

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  • The Mainframe Product must limit privileges to change Mainframe Product started task and job datasets to system programmers and authorized users in accordance with applicable access control policies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the application were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented with...
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  • SRG-APP-000133

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  • The Mainframe Product must prompt the user for action prior to executing mobile code.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Mobile code can cause damage to the system. It can execute without explicit action from, or notification to, a user. Action...
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  • SRG-APP-000492

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  • The Mainframe Product must limit privileges to change Mainframe Product user datasets to authorized individuals.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the application were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented with...
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  • SRG-APP-000141

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