Mainframe Product Security Requirements Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security levels occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000498
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must prompt the user for action prior to executing mobile code.
<VulnDiscussion>Mobile code can cause damage to the system. It can execute without explicit action from, or notification to, a user. Action...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000492
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security objects occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000493
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access security levels occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000494
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000495
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000496
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000497
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000499
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000500
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security levels occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000501
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000502
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to delete categories of information (e.g., classification levels) occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000503
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful logon attempts occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000504
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for privileged activities or other system-level access.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000505
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when concurrent logons from different workstations occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000507
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000508
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all direct access to the information system.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000509
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000510
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must generate audit records for all kernel module load, unload, and restart events, and for all program initiations.
<VulnDiscussion>Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000514
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to provision digital signatures in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The application mu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000514
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to generate and validate cryptographic hashes in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The application mu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000514
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection in accordance with applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, and standards.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The application mu...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration or implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, and DTMs.
<VulnDiscussion>Configuring the application to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensures com...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for authorized users to select a user session to capture/record or view/hear.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to select a user session to capture/record or view/hear, investigations into suspicious or harmful eve...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Mainframe Product must provide the capability for authorized users to remotely view/hear, in real time, all content related to an established user session from a component separate from the Mainframe Product being monitored.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to remotely view/hear all content related to a user session, investigations into suspicious user activ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000416
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group
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