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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Mainframe Product must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.

    <VulnDiscussion>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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