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Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000359

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an immediate warning to the system programmer and security administrator (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of repository maximum audit record storage capacity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If security personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, they are unable to pl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000360

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an immediate real-time alert to the operations staff, system programmers, and/or security administrators, at a minimum, of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.

    &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....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000364

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  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ability to perform on-demand audit review and analysis, including after the audit data has been subjected to audit reduct...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000365

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  • The Mainframe Product must compare the internal system clocks on an organization-defined frequency with organization-defined authoritative time source.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Synchronization of internal system clocks with an authoritative source provides uniformity of time stamps for systems with mu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Mainframe Product must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Mainframe Product must provide an audit reduction capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the audit reduction capability does not support after-the-fact investigations, it is difficult to establish, correlate, an...
    Rule Medium Severity

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