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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...
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  • SRG-APP-000148

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000149

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000150

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  • 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, ...
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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000165

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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000151

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  • The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, privileged users must use multifactor authentication to prevent ...
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  • SRG-APP-000152

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  • The Mainframe Product must use multifactor authentication for local access to non-privileged accounts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability, prevent unauthenticated access, and prevent misuse of the system, non-privileged users must use mul...
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  • SRG-APP-000153

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  • The Mainframe Product must verify users are authenticated with an individual authenticator prior to using a group authenticator.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure individual accountability and prevent unauthorized access, application users must be individually identified and au...
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  • SRG-APP-000164

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  • SRG-APP-000167

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  • The Mainframe Product must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute...
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  • SRG-APP-000173

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  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase 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, ...
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  • SRG-APP-000168

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  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric 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, ...
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  • SRG-APP-000169

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  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special 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, ...
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  • SRG-APP-000170

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  • The Mainframe Product must require the change of at least 8 of the total number of characters when passwords are changed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of pass...
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  • SRG-APP-000171

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  • The Mainframe Product must store only cryptographically protected passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Passwords need to be protected at all times and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are ...
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  • SRG-APP-000172

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  • The Mainframe Product must transmit only cryptographically protected passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Passwords need to be protected at all times and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are ...
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  • The Mainframe Product must enforce 24 hours/1 day as the minimum password lifetime.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforce...
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  • SRG-APP-000174

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  • The Mainframe Product must enforce a 60-day maximum password lifetime restriction.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Any password, no matter how complex, can eventually be cracked. Therefore, passwords need to be changed at specific intervals...
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  • SRG-APP-000175

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  • The Mainframe Product, when using PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by constructing a certification path (which includes status information) to an accepted trust anchor.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without path validation, an informed trust decision by the relying party cannot be made when presented with any certificate n...
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  • SRG-APP-000176

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  • The Mainframe Product, when using PKI-based authentication, must enforce authorized access to the corresponding private key.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the private key is discovered, an attacker can use the key to authenticate as an authorized user and gain access to the ne...
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  • SRG-APP-000177

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  • The Mainframe Product must map the authenticated identity to the individual user or group account for PKI-based authentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without mapping the certificate used to authenticate to the user account, the ability to determine the identity of the indivi...
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  • SRG-APP-000178

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  • The Mainframe Product must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent the compromise of authentication information such as passwords during the authentication process, the feedback fro...
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  • SRG-APP-000179

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  • The Mainframe Product must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified and therefore cannot be r...
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  • SRG-APP-000180

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  • The Mainframe Product must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Lack of authentication and identification enables non-organizational users to gain access to the application or possibly othe...
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  • SRG-APP-000181

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to generate on-demand reports, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduction, greatly faci...
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  • SRG-APP-000186

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  • The Mainframe Product must terminate all sessions and network connections when nonlocal maintenance is completed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a maintenance session or connection remains open after maintenance is completed, it may be hijacked by an attacker and use...
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