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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

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

    <VulnDiscussion>Successful incident response and auditing relies on timely, accurate system information and analysis in order to allow the or...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000112

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000115

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000116

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000118

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000119

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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